Patent ID: 8672748
Filing Date: 2014-03-18
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A method of operating a gaming system, comprising: providing by the gaming system a real world engine configured to provide a randomly generated payout for a gambling game; providing by the gaming system a game world engine configured to manage an entertainment software engine to provide outcomes based upon a player's skillful execution of an entertainment game; collecting parameter data by the gaming system indicative of player performance during the player's skillful execution of the entertainment game at each of a plurality of difficulty settings, the parameter data indicative of wagering in the gambling game as triggered by the player's actions during the player's skillful execution of the entertainment game and indicative of a rate of accumulation of game world credit during the player's skillful execution of the entertainment game; selecting by the gaming system a difficulty setting from the plurality of difficulty settings for the entertainment game based upon the collected parameter data; and determining by the gaming system a wager of an amount of real world credit wagered in the gambling game based on the difficulty setting selected from the plurality of difficulty settings for the entertainment game, the wager triggered by actions taken by the player during the player's skillful execution of the entertainment game at the difficulty setting level, where the real world credit is credit used in the gambling game.