Patent ID: 8657660
Filing Date: 2014-02-25
Classification: A63F,G07F

Abstract:
1. A skill calibrated hybrid game, comprising: a real world engine constructed to provide a randomly generated payout of real world credits from a wager in a gambling game; an entertainment software engine constructed to execute an entertainment game providing outcomes based upon a player's skillful execution of the entertainment game to earn game world credits; and a game world engine constructed to manage the entertainment software engine and communicate gameplay gambling event occurrences based upon the player's skillful execution of the entertainment game that trigger the wager in the gambling game to the gambling game, wherein the game world engine utilizes a skill calibration module, and the skill calibration module is constructed to: receive player performance information for the player, where the player performance information is indicative of the player's gameplay performance at the entertainment game; analyze the player performance information to determine a player's skill level in playing the entertainment game; determine whether the terms of the wager of the gambling game are calibrated in a manner appropriate to the player's skill level in the entertainment game; and send a command to the real world engine during play of the skill calibrated hybrid game that causes the real world engine to calibrate the terms of the wager in the gambling game.