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US 2018/0293833 A1Published application
Gaming system and method for resuming a skill-based game after an interruption event
AssigneeIgt
InventorsJohnny L. Palchetti, Dwayne R. Nelson, Cameron Filipour, Michael G. Spendlove
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Abstract
A gaming system and method that provides one or more players with one or more pre-resumption opportunities prior to resuming the play of the skill-based game. The gaming system enables one or more players to affirmatively acknowledge, following a game play interruption, that they are ready to resume play of the skill-based game. Such an opportunity to indicate a readiness to resume the play of the skill-based game provides that the play of the skill-based game resumes when the player is ready and minimizes the affect of any game play interruption on the player's outcome of the skill-based game.
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A gaming system comprising:
- at least one controller programmed to operate with each of a plurality of gaming machines to:
- for a play of a community skill-based game:
- enable each of a plurality of players of each of a plurality of gaming machines to make at least one quantifiable skill input,
- determine an outcome, said determination being based, at least in part, on the at least one quantifiable skill input of at least one of the plurality of players,
- determine any award associated with the determined outcome, and
- communicate data which results in a display of any determined award to at least one of the plurality of players,
- cause game state data associated with the play of the skill-based game to be stored, and
- responsive to a skill-based game interruption event occurring prior to a conclusion of the play of the skill-based game:
- load the stored game state data,
- for a designated period of time, enable each of the players to indicate to resume the play of the skill-based game,
- responsive to each of the players indicating to resume the play of the skill-based game within the designated period of time, prior to an expiration of the designated period of time, resume the play of the skill-based game, wherein the skill-based game is resumed based on the loaded game state data, and
- responsive to at least one of the players indicating to resume the play of the skill-based game within the designated period of time and at least one of the players not indicating to resume the play of the skill-based game within the designated period of time, after the expiration of the designated period of time, resume the play of the skill-based game, wherein the skill-based game is resumed based on the loaded game state data.
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A method of operating a gaming system including a plurality of gaming machines, said method comprising:
- for a play of a community skill-based game:
- enabling each of a plurality of players of each of the plurality of gaming machines to make at least one quantifiable skill input,
- determining, by a controller, an outcome, said determination being based, at least in part, on the at least one quantifiable skill input of at least one of the plurality of players,
- determining, by the controller, any award associated with the determined outcome, and
- displaying, by a display device, any determined award to at least one of the plurality of players,
- storing game state data associated with the play of the skill-based game, and
- responsive to a skill-based game interruption event occurring prior to a conclusion of the play of the skill-based game:
- loading, by the controller, the stored game state data,
- for a designated period of time, enabling each of the players to indicate to resume the play of the skill-based game,
- responsive to each of the players indicating to resume the play of the skill-based game within the designated period of time, prior to an expiration of the designated period of time, resuming, by the controller, the play of the skill-based game, wherein the skill-based game is resumed based on the loaded game state data, and
- responsive to at least one of the players indicating to resume the play of the skill-based game within the designated period of time and at least one of the players not indicating to resume the play of the skill-based game within the designated period of time, after the expiration of the designated period of time, resuming, by the controller, the play of the skill-based game, wherein the skill-based game is resumed based on the loaded game state data.
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