Leading casino designer Paul Steelman revealed the design secret behind Casino Oceanus when the latest SJM property opened in a windy and rainswept Macau last Tuesday.
“We tried not to make the back walls too bright,” he confided to Asian Gaming Intelligence.
“In Vegas, you find quite a few of the older properties have conventional entrances letting a lot of light in at the edges of the gaming floor. That creates what we call the ‘moth effect’. Humans naturally move toward the light. In a casino that’s not what you’re looking for if you’re the operator.”
Instead, Mr Steelman created other devices to keep occupied the human ‘moths’ coming to have a flutter at Casino Oceanus.
“We had to keep the building essentially as it is, and we couldn’t take out the supporting pillars, so we decided to draw attention to them instead by decorating them with lights.”
So there you have it from the design master. If you want to attract moths and keep them excited, switch on a light bulb—but only in the centre of the room.
