System and method to provide user-configurable preferences and/or options for team play on a single gaming machine

A computer-implemented gaming system, comprising:

• a plurality of input devices including:
• (a) an acceptor of a first physical item associated with a first monetary value;
• and (b) a cashout button actuatable to cause an initiation of a payout associated with a credit balance;
• a non-transitory, computer-readable gaming machine medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a gaming machine computer processor, cause the gaming machine computer processor to:
• provide a multiplayer, turn-based primary game among one or more players;
• enable the one or more players to specify a condition for determining when a player's turn at primary gameplay ends;
• determine that the condition is satisfied for a current player, wherein the condition for determining when a player's turn at primary gameplay ends is player-selectable prior to beginning primary gameplay;
• generate a message to indicate that the current player's turn at primary gameplay is terminated;
• and
• display, via a gaming machine display, the generated message to the one or more players.

A computer-implemented method, comprising:

• providing a gaming machine memory device having stored thereon a gaming application that enables multiplayer, turn-based gameplay of a primary game among two or more players;
• providing a plurality of input devices including:
• (a) an acceptor of a first physical item associated with a first monetary value;
• and (b) a cashout button actuatable to cause an initiation of a payout associated with a credit balance;
• providing a gaming machine computer-processing unit that is operatively connected to the memory device;
• displaying a multiplayer, turn-based primary game to one or more players on a gaming machine computer-driven display;
• receiving, via a gaming machine user-input device, user input from the one or more players, the user input includes specifying a condition for determining when a player's turn at primary gameplay ends;
• performing calculations based on the primary game's instructions and user-specified parameters to determine that the condition is satisfied for a current player, wherein the condition for determining when a player's turn at primary gameplay ends is player-selectable prior to beginning primary gameplay;
• generating a message to indicate that the current player's turn at primary gameplay is terminated;
• and
• displaying, via the gaming machine display, the generated message to the current player on the computer-driven display.