Diamond Tales™: The Emperor’s New Clothes

The aim of the base game is simple – collect Velvet Hearts in the Special Reel to either take with you into the Snap Drop or Diamond Tales™ Features or progress the story and reach the Emperor Feature. For the player to progress through the features of the game, the player needs to fill up the Heart Collection Counter. Once a spin is made without landing any Velvet Hearts on the main reels or a non-winning Snap Drop Feature, all values on Velvet Hearts on the Special Reel are added to the Heart Collection Counter. When the player collects enough Velvet Hearts to fill up the meter, the Chapter will change and therefore upgrade the Diamond Tales™ Feature that can be won. For each chapter of the game there are different amounts of Velvet Hearts the player has to collect to complete the Heart Collection Counter until the very final chapter with the Emperor Feature.

Snap Drop Feature

The Snap Drop Feature can be triggered at any point in the base game. All the player has to do is land the Snap Drop symbol on the fifth reel and have Velvet Hearts in the Special Reel. If the player lands the Snap Drop symbol with no Velvet Hearts in the Special Reel, this counts as a near miss and does not trigger the feature.

The Snap Drop Feature awards the player with one free re-spin where only Velvet Hearts with multipliers on them appear on the reels. The multiplier on the Velvet Heart is defined by the number on the Hearts in the Special Reel above. If there is no Velvet Heart in the Special Reel above, the reel will not re-spin when the Snap Drop is triggered. Therefore, one to five reels can spin on each Snap Drop trigger and each reel can have between zero and four Hearts landing.

After the re-spin, all multipliers on Velvet Hearts on the main reels are summed up and this sum then multiplies the player’s total bet.

Diamond Tales™ Feature

The Diamond Tales™ Feature is triggered by 3 Book Bonus Symbols landing on reels 1, 3 and 5.

The player enters the feature with one extra Heart added to every space in the Special Reel. Therefore, the player enters the feature with at least one Heart on every reel of the Special Reel. The player is then awarded 3 Free Spins, which reset to 3 every time a new Velvet, Gold Diamond, Collector or Updater Heart lands on the main reels. If the player has 3 spins with no new Heart landing, the feature is over.

Velvet Hearts land with the same multiplier on them as the number on the Heart above in the Special Reel.

Velvet Hearts

If a Velvet Heart lands on a reel, its value will be added to any Velvet Hearts that previously landed on the same reel.

Updater Hearts

When the Updater Heart lands on a reels, it has the same value as the Velvet Heart in the Special Reel above it. If one or more Velvet Hearts lands on the reels, the Updater Heart’s value is updated by the landing Velvet Heart’s value.

Collector Hearts

When the Collector Hearts lands, it collects the values of all current Hearts on a main reels. If a new Heart lands on the same reel where the Collector Heart landed, the value of the Collector Heart is updated by the value of the Velvet Heart in the Special Reel above it. In each consecutive Chapter of the game one additional Collector Heart is added to the Diamond Tales™ Feature. In the Baron Feature only 1 Collector Heart is available, but in the Emperor Feature, up to 5 can land, in combination with Gold Diamond Hearts.

Gold Diamond Hearts

Gold Diamond Hearts work the same as Velvet Hearts. However, instead of being summed up, the Gold Diamond Heart’s value is multiplied by any new Velvet Hearts that land in its reel. This happens every time a new Velvet Heart lands, which means a Gold Diamond Heart can be multiplied a maximum of three times. In each consecutive Chapter of the game one additional Gold Diamond Heart is added to the Diamond Tales™ Feature. Therefore, in the Baron Feature only 1 Gold Diamond Heart is available but in the Emperor Feature, up to 5 can land. Only one Golden Diamond Heart can land per reel. If the player only has a 1 on a Heart in the Special Reel, a Gold Diamond Heart cannot land on that reel.

Volatility Mode

The player has the option to change the volatility of their game by pressing the Volatility Mode button.

There are the following Volatility options:

Chapter I- Low

Chapter II: Low-Medium

Chapter III: Medium

Chapter IV: Medium-High

Chapter V: High

Changing the Volatility Mode affects the hit rate of the Diamond Tales Feature and the number of possible Golden Hearts and Collector Hearts that can be in the Diamond Tales Feature.

Players can only choose a volatility when they have unlocked it in by getting that volatility’s Chapter in game.