You may want to allow the player to gamble their currentWin or allow a player to Hold or Nudge a Reel.

Next you would need a Slot for coins in and some form of payout - even if that is or they both are virtual, in terms of a software application. When the reels spin they don't spin from symbol to symbol but in a pattern of symbol-GAP-symbol and each can be a numerical value but GAP's are not chosen by the RNG only the symbols numerical value/its index.

Reels themselves deserve mention, again more smoke and mirrors the Reels do not just show the symbols they also have GAP's - usually the same number of GAP's as symbols. When the button is pressed the RNG stops then proceeds to spin the reels to those values or those that correspond to the symbols on the Reel. RNG or Random Number Generator is what determines the values that the Reels will spin to when the player presses the button.īut don't be confused by the smoke and mirrors, it is when the button is pressed that those values are chosen - not when the Reels stop spinning. Internally, starting with the most important (and in reference to a modern fruit machine), you wound need a RNG. Machineįirstly you would need a Machine - in the real world this would be the wooden cabinet that contains all the different parts required of a Fruit Machine, in Software this would be one of the Top Level objects in the system and would serve the same purpose. If you wanted to build a fruit machine there are a few vital things you would need.

'A slot machine, informally fruit machine, puggy, the slots, poker machine or simply slot, is a casino gambling machine with three or more reels which spin when a button is pushed'. How Google is managing to build AI I don't know. 'a coin-operated gaming machine that generates random combinations of symbols (typically representing fruit) on a dial, certain combinations winning varying amounts of money for the player'. They were what people paid to play before Computer Space Game and Pong were released in 1971 and Fruit Machines/(Slots or Slot machines in US) are still played to this day.Īccording to Google(Dictionary): fruit machine, noun, british

Not sure what spurred this project on - but was probably the challenge of programming something so complex that it 'shouldn't be tried at home and definitely not by yourself'.įruit machines to me are the pre-cursor to arcade games (both of which I find fascinating).

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