Systems and methods for flexible gaming environments

A system for a gaming environment, comprising:

• a real world engine coupled to a gaming environment multiplexer, wherein the real world engine is constructed to provide a gambling game;
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• the gaming environment multiplexer coupled to the real world engine, wherein the gaming environment multiplexer is constructed to:
• receive from a game world engine via a network, a request for coupling the game world engine to elements of a hybrid game, wherein the elements of the hybrid game comprise:
• an entertainment software engine providing an entertainment game of the hybrid game;
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• the real world engine providing the gambling game for the hybrid game;
• determine that the game world engine is approved for a regulatory regime;
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• couple via the network the game world engine to the entertainment software engine and the real world engine, when the multiplexer determines that the game world engine is approved for the regulatory regime, whereby the entertainment game of the entertainment software engine of the hybrid game is coupled to the gambling game of the real world engine of the hybrid game by the game world engine.