Quick Dev update!

Quick Dev Update for the Goose Lodge Bingo Hall.

First off... I want to extend a warm welcome to all the new Islandville residents! We are honored to have you here enjoying some ticket redemption fun of the 90's with us! I really believe that 2025 is going to be the best year yet for The Coin Game.

I have been busy finishing the Goose Lodge Bingo game content update and also working with a new team to upgrade the source project to a new version of Unity 2022. long story short... I underestimated the task of upgrading a 150GB project to a newer version of the Unity engine halfway through multiplayer development. Hey I'm learning here!

The current roadmap is to release this Goose Lodge update around the end of March. If all goes as planned, this March Goose Lodge update "should" be the last update with the old version of Unity (2018). The newer Unity (2022) version that myself and the team are currently working on in the background runs much better and has all but fixed the garbage collection "glitching" problems that we have been facing for years. We still have a couple months of work to do to convert all the other input systems and game saving systems to the new engine but Unity (2022) will be worth the wait.

Enough about the boring stuff Kevin... where's the beef?



So... The next content update will focus on the inside of the Islandville Goose Lodge. It will include a complete Bingo Gaming hall where you can compete against the local Islandville Bots in a "professional" Bingo game. Keep track of your numbers called with an "ink dabber" and then scream BINGO when you have a row of 5 Dabs. It sounds pretty simple... but can get crazy fast. Stay focused and get lucky and you can walk away with some nice loot.



You will be able to play with multiple cards and have to be patient to beat the bots. I mean.. they are robots after all. I am working on a couple more small surprise machines in the Goose Lodge as well but we will have to wait to find out what those are. ;)



As I have said before I can't rush this process of upgrading the source project files. It must be done. The end quality of the game is just as important as adding shiny new features. So THANK YOU for being patient with me and my new team as we go back and fix dumb mistakes I made years ago building it.

That's about it for this small Dev News update. I will have even more info when the Goose Lodge Bingo hall comes out but I just wanted to touch base and let you all know a little more about the future roadmap.

Thank you for your support of The Coin Game!

Kevin