Patent ID: 8636577

Claim:
A method of configuring a gaming system, comprising: providing an entertainment software engine, the entertainment software engine including an entertainment game, the entertainment game including one or more elements for utilization by a player during skillful play of the entertainment game; providing a game world engine associating the player's utilization of the one or more elements of the entertainment game during skillful play of the entertainment game with a triggering of a commitment of a wager of real world credits to a gambling game of a real world engine module; providing a plurality of real world engine modules, each real world engine module having a singular gambling game; receiving, from the player, a selection of a selected real world engine module of the plurality of real world engine modules; and coupling the entertainment software engine to the selected real world engine module via the game world engine by enabling triggering of the commitment of the wager of real world credits in the selected real world engine module's gambling game by the player's utilization of the one or more elements of the entertainment game during the player's skillful play of the entertainment game.