Patent ID: 8758122

Claim:
A networked sponsored 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; a game world engine constructed to communicate gameplay gambling event occurrences based upon a player's skillful execution of an entertainment game that trigger the wager in the gambling game to the gambling game; and an entertainment software engine coupled to the game world engine over a network, the entertainment software engine constructed to execute the entertainment game providing outcomes upon the player's skillful execution of the entertainment game, wherein the game world engine integrates a sponsorship module constructed to access a database containing a player profile and a sponsor profile, and the sponsorship module is further constructed to: receive sponsorship terms involving allocation of gameplay resources during sponsored gameplay of the sponsored hybrid game between the player profile and the sponsor profile, wherein the gameplay resources are elements that are of limited quantity and the consumption of which during play of the entertainment game triggers a wager in a gambling game; allocate gameplay resources associated with the sponsor profile to the player profile based on the sponsorship terms for use in sponsored gameplay; and allocate gameplay resources resulting from a payout of gameplay resources during the sponsored gameplay using the sponsorship terms.