Money Maker Press Your Luck™

A shipped commercial slot title built in Unity at Everi Games, licensed from the Press Your Luck television brand. Contributed modular gameplay systems — wheel-spin physics, anticipation cues, and progressive-award logic — that were reused across multiple titles.

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The product

A 3-reel, 1-line mechanical slot on Everi’s Player Classic Reserve™ cabinet, licensed from FremantleMedia Netherlands B.V. — the Press Your Luck television brand. It runs Cash Machine® Win What You See® style reel play, with a Whammy Wheel bonus triggered by landing the bonus symbol on reel 3 at max bet, Whammy Upgrades that can multiply wins up to five times, and a Zero Respin bonus on 0, 00, or losing spins.

Multi-denomination across 25¢, 50¢, $1, $2, and $5. Volatility 2 of 5. Available in Class III, Class II, Lottery (WA), and HHR-Exacta configurations, with SAP, LAP, and WAP progressive options.

What I worked on

Slot development is unusual in that the math model is fixed and audited before the game is built — so the engineering problem is expressing that model faithfully while making the moment-to-moment presentation feel alive. Anticipation is the lever: the pause before a reel lands, the wheel’s deceleration curve, the timing of an award reveal.

Most of my work was on making those systems modular enough to survive being reused. The anticipation-randomization framework in particular went back into the studio’s shared animation library, so other feature teams could prototype against it instead of rebuilding the behavior per title.

I also worked as feature-lead across the Math, Art, and Audio teams — sprint delivery on those features moved from 70% to 93% on-time over my tenure, mostly through tighter backlog grooming and clearer milestone scoping.