HEAD-TO-HEAD AND TOURNAMENT PLAY FOR ENRICHED GAME PLAY ENVIRONMENT

摘要

Methods and systems for enhanced head-to-head hybrid gaming are provided. An enhanced head-to-head hybrid game has a gambling game with a real world engine that provides a randomly generated payout for the gambling game, an entertainment software engine that executes an entertainment game providing outcomes upon a player's execution of the entertainment game, and a game world engine that manages the entertainment software engine and communicates gameplay gambling event occurrences based upon a player's execution of the entertainment game that trigger the gambling game. A global betting manager receives player performance measurements from the game world engine, determines tournament eligibility, assigns a tournament handicap based at least in part upon the performance measurements from the game world engine and sends information concerning these parameters to the game world engine which is configured to implement each assigned handicap and tournament eligibility within the enhanced head-to-head hybrid game.

主权项

1. An enhanced head-to-head hybrid game system, comprising:
at least one processor configured as a real world engine constructed to provide a randomly generated payout of real world credits for a wager of an amount of real world credits; at least one processor configured as an entertainment software engine constructed to provide an entertainment game providing an outcome of game world credit earned upon a player's skillful execution of the entertainment game while utilizing a resource of the entertainment game; at least one processor configured as a game world engine constructed to manage the entertainment software engine and communicate gameplay gambling event occurrences based upon the player's utilization of the resource during the player's skillful execution of the entertainment game that trigger the wager of the amount of real world credits and generation of the randomly generated payout of real world credits by the real world engine; and at least one processor configured as a global betting manager constructed to:
receive player performance measurements for the player from the game world engine;determine eligibility of the player for play in a tournament and assign by the global betting manager a handicap for the tournament to the player based upon the player performance measurements for the player, wherein the handicap for the tournament is a random element introduced into the game world of the player during tournament play; andsend information concerning tournament eligibility and the assigned handicap to the game world engine that configures the game world engine to implement the assigned handicap and tournament eligibility within the enhanced head-to-head hybrid game.