US 2020/0051393 A1Published application

System and method for facilitating a secondary game

AssigneeKabam, Inc.

InventorsStephanie SCHULTZ, Luc PIERON, Sam McLellan, Henry RULL, Kevin SIMMONS, Jay JODWAY, Weiwei GENG

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Abstract

Facilitating entry and/or selection of one or more awards associated with a secondary game to increase the probability of obtaining a more desirable award. Access to a secondary game may be selectively provided, to players of an online game, to facilitate player participations in individual episodes of the secondary game. A set of potential awards may be obtained together with a set of award probabilities for the set of potential awards. Entry and/or selection of one or more of the potential awards in the set of potential awards to be removed from or replaced in the set of potential awards to create an adjusted set of potential awards, may be received from the player. A first potential may be selected based on the award probabilities and distributed to the first player for use within the online game.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system for facilitating replacements of potential awards in an online game, the system comprising:

one or more processors configured to execute machine-readable instructions to:
execute an instance of the online game, to implement the instance of the online game by receiving commands from players and executing the commands in the instance of the online game to facilitate player participation in the online game, and to facilitate presentation of the online game on client computing platforms;
selectively provide access to the players to a secondary game, wherein the access facilitates player participations in individual episodes of the secondary game, wherein for an episode provided to a first player, the secondary game is configured to:
obtain a set of potential awards for the episode, the individual potential awards including virtual items usable in the online game;
prior to completion of the episode, obtain a set of award probabilities for the set of potential awards;
prior to the completion of the episode, effectuate presentation of an interface to the first player, the interface being configured to receive entry and/or selection by the first player of one or more of the potential awards in the set of potential awards to be replaced in the set of potential awards to create, upon replacement, an adjusted set of potential awards having an adjusted set of award probabilities;
stochastically or quasi-stochastically, select a first potential award from the adjusted set of potential awards as an actual award, wherein the selection of the actual award is based on the adjusted set of award probabilities;
and
distribute the actual award to the first player for use within the online game.

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A method for facilitating replace of potential awards in an online game, the method implemented on a computer system that includes one or more computer processors, the method comprising:

executing an instance of the online game;
implementing the instance of the online game by facilitating receiving commands from players and executing the commands in the instance of the online game to facilitate player participation in the online game, and to facilitate presentation of the online game on client computing platforms;
selectively providing access to the players to a secondary game, wherein the access facilitates player participations in individual episodes of the secondary game;
obtaining, for an episode provided to a first player, a set of potential awards for the episode, the individual potential awards including virtual items usable in the online game;
prior to completion of the episode, obtaining, for the first turn, a set of award probabilities for the set of potential awards;
prior to the completion of the episode, effectuating presentation of an interface to the first player, the interface being configured to receive entry and/or selection by the first player of one or more of the potential awards in the set of potential awards to be replaced in the set of potential awards to create, upon replacement, an adjusted set of potential awards having an adjusted set of award probabilities;
stochastically or quasi-stochastically, selecting a first potential award from the adjusted set of potential awards as an actual award, wherein the selection of the actual award is based on the adjusted set of award probabilities;
and
distributing the actual award to the first player for use within the online game.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.