System and method of awarding a community award

A method including a plurality of gaming machines, a system controller and a database, the database including a community awards list and a plurality of total award amounts associated with a corresponding number of players and a plurality of player tracking accounts, each account associated with at least one player, comprising the steps of:

• receiving a wager through a gaming machine and initiating a game;
• tracking, through the system controller, the gaming activity of a player;
• detecting a trigger condition, as a function of the tracked gaming activity, by the system controller, and in response to the trigger condition being detected, perform the following steps:
• responsively determining, by the system controller, a number of players playing the plurality of machines;
• determining, by the system controller, a total award probability as a function of the determined number of players and the community award list;
• providing, by the system controller, a community award to at least one of the plurality of player as a function of the determined total award probability;
• and
• storing the community award in the player tracking account associated with the player.

A non-transitory information recording medium on which a computer readable program is recorded that causes a computer to function as a system comprising:

• a system controller, the system controller coupled to each a plurality of gaming machines playable by a plurality of players, each of the gaming machines configured to receive a wager from a respective player and responsively initiate a game and a database, the database including a community awards list including a plurality of total award amounts, each total award amount having a corresponding number of players and a plurality of player tracking accounts, each account associated with at least one player, the system controller configured to:
• track the gaming activity of a player;
• detect a triggering condition as a function of the tracked gaming activity, and in response to the triggering condition being detected, perform the following;
• responsively determine a number of players playing the plurality of gaming machines;
• determine a total award probability as a function of the determined number of players and the community award list;
• provide a community award to at least one of the plurality of players as a function of the determined total award probability;
• and
• store the community award in the player tracking account associated with the player.