An electronic gaming machine constructed to receive real credits, including a real world engine configured to provide a randomly generated payout for a gambling game and a game world engine configured to manage an entertainment software engine to provide outcomes based upon a player's skillful execution of an entertainment game are provided. In operation, an amount of real world credits are wagered in the real world engine, a randomly generated payout of real world credits is determined based upon the wagered amount using the real world engine, a number of elements are added that are ascribed to a player and that are scaled according to a scaling ratio set by the game world engine relative to the payout of real world credits using the game world engine.