This is an age of personalization. Everyone personalizes their computer desk top and their Facebook home page. Therefore Microgaming has launched an online slot game titled MySlot that can be personalized by the players. The personalization is restricted to the theme and not the gaming features and the payouts. But this is attraction enough because the theme is often the unique selling proposition in marketing online slots. Players who do not want to personalize MySlot can play it in the default format that has symbols from classic slots along with Microgaming high value card symbols. But this defeats the very purpose of MySlot.
Players who want to personalize MySlot should activate the template provided by Microgaming. Each symbol in the template can be replaced by a graphic stored in the memory of the player’s computer using the edit tool. The graphic that the player uses to substitute the given wild symbol will become the new wild symbol and have all the stated properties of the wild symbol. The same applies to the scatter symbol. The idea is that the player selects a coherent set of symbols that form a theme. Canada is a country rich in natural beauty. Canadian players can create a theme using images of Niagara Falls, Vancouver Rockies and others as symbols. Players can make the personalization even more intimate by using photographs from their holiday or birthday party as symbols.
Microgaming MySlot provides a color palette that allows the player to change the background color. Most video slots have a background audio track when the reels spin. In MySlot music or other audio tracks can be added to video slot. The player can choose the color and add the audio that best complements the theme of the chosen symbols. If the theme is Canada then the color can be red and the audio can be the Canadian national anthem. If the theme is a seaside holiday the color can be blue and the audio can be Cliff Richard’s famous hit song Summer Holiday. If the theme is birthday then the color can be the player’s favorite color and the audio can be the song Happy Birthday To You.
The player can set up many personalized online slot games by customizing MySlot several times and saving it under different names. Clicking on the Theme Menu tab reveals the names and the wild symbols of all the different personalized slot games. It also displays the Create New Theme button that provides the template for creating a new slot game. Players can edit created slot games if they get a better picture for a symbol or want to change the audio track.
Obviously players cannot change the payouts or parameters that affect the payouts in MySlot. Allowing that would spell doom for Microgaming online casinos. Whatever the theme created MySlot will be a 5 reels and 9 paylines video slot. Players can wager up to 5 coins per payline. The wild symbol also acts as a 2 times multiplier when it helps make winning combinations. On its own it awards the jackpot payout of 10,000 coins. The scatter symbol awards scatter payouts. Three or more scatter symbols activate 15 free spins at tripled payouts.
