Anti-cheating system

An electromechanical gaming machine for applying an anti-cheating system in a hybrid game having an entertainment game and a gambling game, electromechanical gaming machine comprising:

• a real world controller connected to a game world controller, the real world controller comprising:
• a real world credit meter;
• a random number generator;
• and
• a real world credit paytable, wherein the real world controller is constructed to:
• receive real world credit;
• receive, from the game world controller, a wager trigger;
• and
• determine a gambling outcome for a wager of real world credit using the random number generator and the real world credit paytable in accordance with a gambling proposition of the gambling game using the trigger;
• an entertainment software controller connected to the game world controller by a network, the entertainment software controller constructed to:
• provide the entertainment game to a player, the entertainment game having a game world and entertainment game objects used by the player in the context of the game world;
• generate a game play outcome based on actions taken by the player in the context of the game world;
• and
• communicate, to the game world controller, the actions taken by the player in the context of the game world;
• an anti-cheating module connected to the game world controller, the anti-cheating module constructed to:
• establish a penalty threshold;
• receive player performance information;
• analyze the player performance information to determine whether cheating is occurring;
• determine if the penalty threshold has been met;
• distribute a punitive measure to the game world controller based on the penalty threshold;
• the game world controller connected to the real world controller and the entertainment software controller, wherein the game world controller is constructed to:
• receive, from the entertainment software controller, the actions taken by the player in the context of the game world of the entertainment game of during the player's playing of the entertainment game;
• distribute the player performance information to the anti-cheating module;
• trigger the wager of the real world credits in the real world controller based on the actions taken by the player in the context of the game world of the entertainment game;
• and
• update a state of the hybrid game based on the punitive measure.