Patent Application Number: 2009200684
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The game player then has the opportunity to manipulate the symbols within a pre-defined scope. Based on the manipulation by the user the gaming system will determine if the game should cease or continue into a feature game round. Once in a feature game round, the gaming system will determine the outcome by analysing the optimal winning outcome or combination from a group of symbol reels.
In addition this application outlines that this gaming system can be deployed across multiple platforms. These include single standalone gaming arcade style machines, personal computers where all the computation is undertaken within the computer, to a server/client setup, where computation is shared between the two.
The system and controls have been designed to be expanded at any point, such as input and output devices being attached or further criteria code being deployed to change the way feature games are entered into.
The problem with this is that the greater majority of applications appear to claim over a particular method of gaining a bonus option. Thus, when assessing prior art it may become difficult to demonstrate that this is not 'new' without piecing together a significant number of applications.