Game system, player tracking device, gaming machine, and program

A player tracking device having an input part and an output part, the input part including an IC device reader which accepts an IC device storing identification information for identifying a player and reading the identification information from the IC device, and information being outputted from the output part,

• the player tracking device being integrated into a gaming machine which provides a game play for the identified player,
• the player tracking device being connected via a network to an external server,
• with a request from the external server as a starting point, irrespective of the game play on the gaming machine, a linkage presentation performed over two or more gaming machines being executed individually by outputting the information to the output parts of a plurality of the player tracking devices respectively integrated into the two or more gaming machines according to a linkage presentation pattern,
• wherein the linkage presentation pattern defines a pattern of presentations conducted in the player tracking devices, and the output parts of the plurality of player tracking devices output the information for conducting the presentations according to the linkage presentation pattern in a manner linked with one another, thereby realizing the linkage presentation over the two or more gaming machines,
• wherein a plurality of gaming machines are grouped into a plurality of groups,
• wherein the external server transmits a predetermined notification to one gaming machine belonging to a predetermined group among the plurality of groups when outputting the information by causing the output parts of the player tracking devices of two or more gaming machines belonging to the predetermined group to operate in the manner linked with one another,
• wherein the player tracking device, upon receiving the predetermined notification, transmits a linkage presentation execution request to a gaming machine operating as a server within the predetermined group, and
• wherein the player tracking device, upon receiving the linkage presentation execution request, transmits the linkage presentation execution request to all of other gaming machines within the predetermined group.

A program being executed on a player tracking device, the player tracking device having an input part and an output part, the input part including an IC device reader which accepts an IC device storing identification information for identifying a player and reading the identification information from the IC device, information being outputted from the output part, the player tracking device being integrated into a gaming machine which provides a game play for the identified player, the player tracking device being connected via a network to an external server,

• the program performing control such that with a request from the external server as a starting point, irrespective of the game play on the gaming machine, linkage presentation performed over two or more gaming machines is executed individually by outputting the information to the output parts of a plurality of the player tracking devices respectively integrated into the two or more gaming machines according to a linkage presentation pattern,
• wherein the linkage presentation pattern defines a pattern of presentations conducted in the player tracking devices, and the output parts of the plurality of player tracking devices output the information for conducting the presentations according to the linkage presentation pattern in a manner linked with one another, thereby realizing the linkage presentation over the two or more gaming machines,
• wherein a plurality of gaming machines are grouped into a plurality of groups,
• wherein the external server transmits a predetermined notification to one gaming machine belonging to a predetermined group among the plurality of groups when outputting the information by causing the output parts of the player tracking devices of two or more gaming machines belonging to the predetermined group to operate in the manner linked with one another,
• wherein the program, upon receiving the predetermined notification, transmits a linkage presentation execution request to a gaming machine operating as a server within the predetermined group, and
• wherein the program, upon receiving the linkage presentation execution request, transmits the linkage presentation execution request to all of other gaming machines within the predetermined group.