Patent ID: 8632395

Claim:
A method of operating a gaming system, comprising: providing a real world engine that receives a wager of real world credit and determines a gambling outcome of a gambling game using the wager; providing an entertainment software engine that determines game world credit based on a player's skillful play of an entertainment game; providing a game world engine that creates an enabling element for the entertainment game of the entertainment software engine based on the wager of real world credit, the enabling element consumed by the player during skillful play of the entertainment game of the entertainment software engine; correlating by the game world engine the wager of real world credit of the real world engine with the enabling element of the entertainment game of the entertainment software engine by triggering the real world engine to execute the gambling game to consume the wager of real word credit when the player consumes the enabling element during skillful play of the entertainment game of the entertainment software engine; and accumulating the game world credit by the game world engine based on the player's skillful play of the entertainment game of the entertainment software engine.