This question eventually led me to founding my own company to develop more sophisticated slot maths development tools, namely Slot Designer. Good games can make or break gaming companies, and finding such a key part of it works this way was surprising to say the least. Games are the foundation on which so much of the industry relies. Even as an engineer the maths was fairly basic, so how hard could it be? Harder than it looks – I spent an entire day making endless mistakes even though I had all the answers right in front of me, and this was for a game considered simple even then.Ĭompounding this, these designs are only a part of the overall process of using the mathematical design in the product, and the rest of the process was not much better. He explained the basic principles and gave me a simple par sheet to reproduce in Microsoft Excel. I was first introduced to slot mathematics in late 2001 after asking a game designer how slots worked.
