Managing virtual currencies in a gaming environment
AssigneeIgt
InventorsSteve G. LeMay, Dwayne R. Nelson
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Abstract
A method for converting a game award earned during play of a first wager-based game into a game award in a second wager-based game includes, but is not limited to any of combination of: receiving, over a network, a request to convert a first award earned by a player in the first wager-based game into at least one award in the second wager-based game; converting, by one or more processors, the first award earned during play of the first wager-based game to at least one award associated with the second wager-based game based on award conversation data; and storing, by the one or more processors, data associated with result of the conversion of the first award into the at least award of the second wager-based game in a data storage system.
Claims9
A gaming system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory device which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
- receive data associated with a wager placed on a play of a first game,
- for the wagered on play of the first game:
- determine a game outcome,
- communicate data which results in a display device displaying the determined game outcome,
- determine a first award of an amount of virtual currency associated with the determined game outcome, and
- communicate data which results in the display device displaying the determined first award associated with the determined game outcome, and
- responsive to receiving data associated with an avatar creation input received from a player, convert the determined first award associated with the determined game outcome to an avatar created for a play of a second, different game.
A method of operating a gaming system, said method comprising:
- receiving data associated with a wager placed on a play of a first game,
- for the wagered on play of the first game:
- determining, by a processor, a game outcome,
- communicating data which results in a display device displaying the determined game outcome,
- determining, by the processor, a first award of an amount of virtual currency associated with the determined game outcome, and
- communicating data which results in the display device displaying the determined first award associated with the determined game outcome, and
- responsive to receiving data associated with an avatar creation input received from a player, converting, by the processor, the determined first award associated with the determined game outcome to an avatar created for a play of a second, different game.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.