Patent ID: 8764562

Claim:
A method of providing a player interface for a gaming system comprising: displaying an object to a player comprising at least two faces, each face of the object associated with a base game and a respective feature game playable with the gaming system, wherein each face of the object has an image thereon corresponding to its base game and its respective feature game, the object being initially displayed such that at least one face is visible to the player prior to game play, wherein each base game and respective feature game are games of chance; providing to the player with a first view manipulator to allow the player to manipulate viewing of the object and thereby to select one of the at least two faces of the object for viewing; providing to the player a second view manipulator to allow the player to manipulate viewing of the object once a face is selected for viewing using the first manipulator, the second view manipulator allowing the player to selectively pan and zoom into a respective feature game associated with the face selected for viewing so as to allow the player to view the respective feature game associated with the face selected for viewing prior to selection of any base game to play; selecting a face of the object to play only the selected face's corresponding base game and the selected face's respective feature game; upon selection by the player of the selected face's corresponding base game, via a computer processor, zooming into at least a portion of the selected face of the object corresponding to the selected face's corresponding base game to play the selected face's corresponding base game; and upon occurrence of a trigger during play of the selected face's corresponding base game, zooming into at least a portion of the face of the object corresponding to the respective feature game of the selected face's corresponding base game to play the respective feature game.