Customizable and personal game offerings for use with a gaming machine

Abstract

Described herein are systems and methods that offer a personalized set of recommended games to an individual. The systems and methods collect personal game selection information for a person, such as demographic information and/or previous gaming experience data. The collected information is then analyzed and used to select a set of recommended games from all possible games (e.g., offered by a gaming establishment) that the person is likely to enjoy. The set of recommended games is then offered to the person when they are identified at or near a gaming machine or when the person provides the personal game selection information to a gaming machine.

1 . A server for use with a gaming machine network, the server comprising:
 a memory designed or configured to store a) a set of available games, b) personal game selection information for a person that is useful for selecting a set of recommended games from the set of available games for the person, and c) a software application operable to i) assemble game meta-data for a set of available games, the game meta-data referring to data that is useful for characterizing the game, ii) obtain personal game selection information for the person related to the game meta-data, and iii) select a set of recommended games, from the set of available games, for the person using the personal game selection information and using the game meta-data for the set of available games;   a logic device configured to execute the software application operable to i) assemble game meta-data for the set of available games, ii) obtain the personal game selection information, and iii) select the set of recommended games from the multiple games for the person using the personal game selection information; and   a communications interface for transmitting a list of the set of recommended games to an external device.