Dev Update & Publisher Announcement
Hey Islandvillers. It's been a minute since I have posted a dev update. I am sorry about that and the lack of info but I had to wait until I had more news to bring you all up to speed on the changes happening behind the scenes here at The Coin Game.
You see... when I started this game 6 years ago I never would have suspected it would be this large and impactful. In the beginning, it was just a fun art project meant to play an old coin pusher from my local county fair as a kiddo. I then put it on Steam Greenlight and people voted it in pretty quickly. Here we are 6 years later and there is an entire island full of arcades, jobs and lots of silly bots. I never would have thought it would be this big and slowly over time I came to the reality that Uncle Phil and devotid would need some professional outside codesmiths to take this game to the next level.
So I decided around Mar/April of this year to buck up and seek outside partnerships and hire some smarter people than me. As a stubborn do-it-ALL-yourself kind of person that was very hard to face but the game is so much bigger than me now and it had to be done. It's taken months and lots of work to find the right help/partners for The Coin Game but I have found the right partners. Remember... I am a game developer, not a business suit, so this is something I have had to learn along the way.
Also...Side note. HUGE THANKS to Steam for building the Greenlight and Early Access programs and allowing me to build this title. Without the Steam Greenlight incubation system in place, I wouldn't have had the chance to even build this game.
I can't say too much yet but it will bring The Coin Game to a new more professional level that it deserves. I have dropped the ball when it comes to the games "socials" and general interaction with the community. I am so busy coding, modeling and running the backend that it is near impossible to react to all the needs of the front end. So with this, I’m happy to announce that I’ve teamed up with UK-based publisher Kwalee!
This new team-up will help me with my day-to-day tasks while ensuring I have creative control and freedom over The Coin Game. The team over at Kwalee will be supporting me with marketing, production, and anything else in the future.
Together, we will improve the quality of life for the residents of Islandville! So, keep an eye out for more to come in the future.
Thank you for being patient during this time and thank you for supporting The Coin Game!
Kevin
You see... when I started this game 6 years ago I never would have suspected it would be this large and impactful. In the beginning, it was just a fun art project meant to play an old coin pusher from my local county fair as a kiddo. I then put it on Steam Greenlight and people voted it in pretty quickly. Here we are 6 years later and there is an entire island full of arcades, jobs and lots of silly bots. I never would have thought it would be this big and slowly over time I came to the reality that Uncle Phil and devotid would need some professional outside codesmiths to take this game to the next level.
So I decided around Mar/April of this year to buck up and seek outside partnerships and hire some smarter people than me. As a stubborn do-it-ALL-yourself kind of person that was very hard to face but the game is so much bigger than me now and it had to be done. It's taken months and lots of work to find the right help/partners for The Coin Game but I have found the right partners. Remember... I am a game developer, not a business suit, so this is something I have had to learn along the way.
Also...Side note. HUGE THANKS to Steam for building the Greenlight and Early Access programs and allowing me to build this title. Without the Steam Greenlight incubation system in place, I wouldn't have had the chance to even build this game.
I can't say too much yet but it will bring The Coin Game to a new more professional level that it deserves. I have dropped the ball when it comes to the games "socials" and general interaction with the community. I am so busy coding, modeling and running the backend that it is near impossible to react to all the needs of the front end. So with this, I’m happy to announce that I’ve teamed up with UK-based publisher Kwalee!
This new team-up will help me with my day-to-day tasks while ensuring I have creative control and freedom over The Coin Game. The team over at Kwalee will be supporting me with marketing, production, and anything else in the future.
Together, we will improve the quality of life for the residents of Islandville! So, keep an eye out for more to come in the future.
Thank you for being patient during this time and thank you for supporting The Coin Game!
Kevin