Slot Machines

For the last couple of evenings I have been learning about slot machines and how they work.  There is actually quite a bit more to them than first meets the eye.

I have a side project going to build a slot machine server application that can simulate many kinds of slot machine games.  Given the set of rules and reels it will build a playable demo, as well as produce all of the mathematical model statistics for the particular game such as how much money it will return to the player over time and what the volatility is.

Designing a game engine that can handle all of the possible variations in slot machine gameplay is not easy.

Ultimately this game simulator will be used to push different games down to a mobile app, which itself will need to dynamically render the reels, graphics, and animations that were set on the server.

The complexity of this side project has kind of ballooned a bit.