Credit and enabling system for virtual constructs in a hybrid game

A method of operating a controlled entity hybrid game, the method comprising:

• providing by the controlled entity hybrid game a real world engine constructed to provide a randomly generated payout of real world credits from a wager of an amount of real credits in a gambling game;
• providing by the controlled entity hybrid game an entertainment software engine constructed to execute an entertainment game providing outcomes based upon a player's skillful execution of the entertainment game;
• triggering by the controlled entity hybrid game the wager of the amount of real world credits in the gambling game based upon a player's instruction of a controlled entity of the entertainment game and the consumption by the controlled entity of a discrete amount of an enabling element of the entertainment game that triggers the wager of the amount of real world credits in the gambling game, the amount of real world credits based on the discrete amount of the enabling element consumed by the controlled entity;
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• incrementing an amount of the enabling element on passing one or more transport tests including on a basis of the player having adequate real world credits committed to the controlled entity hybrid game to support the triggering of an additional wager of the amount of real world credits in the gambling game upon the controlled entity's consumption of the discrete amount of enabling element of the incremented amount of enabling element, on a basis of the randomly generated payout of real world credits by the gambling game, and on a basis of an entertainment game variable of the entertainment game.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium containing processor instructions, where execution of the instructions by a processor causes the processor to perform a process comprising:

• providing by the controlled entity hybrid game a real world engine constructed to provide a randomly generated payout of real world credits from a wager of an amount of real credits in a gambling game;
• providing by the controlled entity hybrid game an entertainment software engine constructed to execute an entertainment game providing outcomes based upon a player's skillful execution of the entertainment game;
• triggering by the controlled entity hybrid game the wager of the amount of real world credits in the gambling game based upon a player's instruction of a controlled entity of the entertainment game and the consumption by the controlled entity of a discrete amount of an enabling element of the entertainment game that triggers the wager of the amount of real world credits in the gambling game, the amount of real world credits based on the discrete amount of the enabling element consumed by the controlled entity;
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• incrementing an amount of the enabling element on passing one or more transport tests including on a basis of the player having adequate real world credits committed to the controlled entity hybrid game to support the triggering of an additional wager of the amount of real world credits in the gambling game upon the controlled entity's consumption of the discrete amount of enabling element of the incremented amount of enabling element, on a basis of the randomly generated payout of real world credits by the gambling game, and on a basis of an entertainment game variable of the entertainment game.