INTERACTIVE GAME ELEMENTS AS LOTTERY TICKET IN ENRICHED GAME PLAY ENVIRONMENT (SINGLE and/or MULTIPLAYER) FOR CASINO APPLICATIONS

摘要

Systems for providing a lottery ticket to a player of a hybrid game are provided. Systems include an entertainment software engine that provides an entertainment game, the entertainment game including a first type of enabling element and a second type of enabling element; a real world engine that provides a gambling game, and generates random gambling outcomes for a gambling bet in real world credits; and a game world engine coupled to the entertainment software engine and the real world engine via a network, that: receives a lottery ticket; monitors, via the network, the player's skillful play of the entertainment game; pays out game world credit to the player; triggers the gambling bet in the gambling game; receives a gambling outcome; determines to award the lottery ticket to the player on the basis of attendant rules; and issues the lottery ticket to the player via the network.

主权项

1. A system for providing a lottery entry to a player of a networked hybrid game, comprising:
an entertainment software engine that provides an entertainment game portion of the networked hybrid game, the entertainment game portion including a first type of enabling element and a second type of enabling element; a real world engine that provides a gambling game portion of the networked hybrid game, and generates random gambling outcomes for a gambling bet in real world credits; and a game world engine coupled to the entertainment software engine and the real world engine via a network, that:
receives a lottery ticket from a lottery system;monitors, via the network, the player's skillful play of the entertainment game, the monitored play including consumption of the second type of enabling element and the second type of enabling element consumed during the player's skillful play of the entertainment game portion of the hybrid game;pays out, via the network, game world credit to the player on the basis of the player's skillful play of the entertainment game portion of the hybrid game;triggers the gambling bet in the gambling game portion of the networked hybrid game on the basis of the consumption of the second type of enabling element consumed during the player's skillful play of the entertainment game portion of the hybrid game;receives, from the real world engine, a gambling outcome;determines to award the lottery ticket to the player on the basis of attendant rules, the attendant rules based on the player's play of the entertainment game portion of the hybrid game; andissues the lottery ticket to the player via the network.