Patent ID: 9576435
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: G07F

Claim:
1. A method of gaming using a first gaming machine having a first controller, a first communication interface, an input device configured to accept instructions for placing a wager, a credit input mechanism configured to accept a credit input, and hardware meters configured to monitor the credit input having been provided by the credit input mechanism for establishing a credit balance, the credit balance being increasable and decreasable, and a second gaming machine having a second controller and a second communication interface, the first gaming machine communicatively coupled over a network to the second gaming machine, the method comprising: conducting, via the first controller and in response to the wager received at the input device and deducted from the credit balance at the hardware meters, a first base game at said first gaming machine for a first player with the credit balance; conducting, via the second controller, a second base game at said second gaming machine for a second player during play of said first base game at said first gaming machine; triggering, via the first controller, a first feature game on said first gaming machine during play of said first base game by said first player, said first feature game having a continuous objective; triggering, via the second controller and the second communication interface, a second feature game on said second gaming machine in response to said first feature game being triggered, wherein said second feature game is a different game than said first feature game, and wherein said second feature game is a game of chance comprising collecting a plurality of symbols including at least one winning symbol; modifying, via the first controller and the first communication interface, play of the first feature game based on the number of winning symbols collected during play of the second feature game; modifying, via the second controller and the second communication interface, play of the second feature game based on a variable length of time that said continuous objective continues to be met during play of the first feature game, wherein said first feature game terminates when said continuous objective ceases being met; and terminating, via the second controller and the second communication interface, play of said second feature game on said second gaming machine in response to play of the first feature game being terminated on said first gaming machine.