US 12,394,274 B2
Electronic gaming machine and system with dynamic reel wall deformation through metamorphic reel symbol expansion
David Marsh, Charlottesville, VA (US); and Karl Roelofs, Charlottesville, VA (US)
Assigned to Aristocrat Technologies, Inc., Las Vegas, NV (US)
Filed by Aristocrat Technologies, Inc. (ATI), Las Vegas, NV (US)
Filed on Apr. 25, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/306,701.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/411,762, filed on Sep. 30, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0112529 A1, Apr. 4, 2024
Int. Cl. G07F 17/32 (2006.01); G06F 7/58 (2006.01)
CPC G07F 17/3213 (2013.01) [G06F 7/588 (2013.01); G07F 17/3267 (2013.01); G07F 17/329 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic gaming device comprising:
a player interface operable to determine player inputs;
a display device operable to display a reel-simulated bingo game employing a plurality of reels, the plurality of reels having a plurality of display positions, respectively, and at least one reel sharing a wall of an adjacent reel; and
a controller comprising at least one processor and a memory storing a weighted table controlling a predetermined volatility, a symbol set having a plurality of symbols including a plurality of metamorphic symbols, each of the plurality of metamorphic symbols having a plurality of states including an award state, and a plurality of sequences of instructions, which, when executed, cause the at least one processor to at least:
control the display device to display at the plurality of display positions, in response to an occurrence of a trigger condition in a bingo game initiated via the player interface, a first metamorphic symbol selected based on the weighted table to control the predetermined volatility, and one or more symbols selected randomly based on a random number generated by a random number generator,
control the display device to animate the first metamorphic symbol being transformed into an expanded metamorphic symbol, and the wall associated with the expanded metamorphic symbol being deformed and overlaying at least a portion of the adjacent reel, and
in response to the expanded metamorphic symbol having reached the award state and having further deformed the wall, control the display device to animate an effect associated with the expanded metamorphic symbol being distributed to the one or more symbols selected.