Patent ID: 8821264

Claim:
A controlled entity hybrid game, comprising: a real world engine constructed to determine a randomly generated payout of real world credits for a wager; an entertainment software engine constructed to execute an entertainment game providing an entertainment game outcome based upon a player's instruction of a controlled entity to consume an enabling element of the entertainment game during the player's skillful execution of the entertainment game; and a game world engine constructed to manage the entertainment software engine by: communicating, to the real world engine, a gameplay gambling event occurrence based upon the player's instruction of the controlled entity to consume the enabling element of the entertainment game, the gameplay gambling event occurrence triggering the wager in the real world engine whereby the randomly generated payout of real world credits is determined for the wager; determining a change in an amount of game world credit on the basis of the entertainment game outcome and the controlled entity's consumption of the enabling element; and changing an amount of the enabling element on the basis of the randomly generated payout of real world credits of the triggered wager in the real world engine and the game world credit as determined on the basis of the entertainment game outcome and the controlled entity's consumption of the enabling element.