The Coin Game News

[h3]Barry’s Pawn Shop may claim to have the best deals, but we’re offering a must-have bargain that arcade lovers simply should not miss…

The Coin Game is now 25% off as part of the Autumn Sale![/h3]



The Coin Game is an arcade life simulation game set in the wacky world of Islandville. As the lone human resident of Islandville, you’ll have over 50 arcade games to choose from and you’ll never have to wait in line to use any of them! Choose from either Birthday Mode, where you’ll have unlimited money and can play as much as you want, or Survival Mode, where you’ll have to become an arcade aficionado and make money however you can in order to buy the Cheesy Poofs you desperately need to survive.

Alongside multiple arcades, Islandville is home to Barry’s Pawn Shop, Frankie’s Quality Fireworks stall, a carnival, and much more! Meet the zany robot residents, play arcade games inspired by ones from real life, win super duper prizes, and ride around in your very own golf cart. Just make sure you’re home before Nannybot’s curfew, and don’t drop any food on the floor or honking Gary the goose will honking steal it!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/598980/The_Coin_Game/

The Coin Game is the work of solo developer devotid and is still in Early Access, so there’s more content to come in future updates.

If that wasn’t enough to convince you, why not check out our trailer for the latest content update?

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The Autumn Sale will run from today until Wednesday December 4th, so grab this Dunko-sized deal while you can!

That’s our big commercial over, so now we’ll let you get back to your regularly scheduled programming.

Maddie @ Kwalee

[h3]Want to check out what’s waiting for you in Islandville? Or simply want to see our resident streamer Mattie B get up to some arcade antics?

To showcase all that Islandville has to offer (or as much as we can fit in under an hour!), we’ve put together this stream, which will loop at the top of The Coin Game’s store page.[/h3]


https://store.steampowered.com/app/598980/The_Coin_Game/


[h3]We decided to put up this stream to give new players an idea of what to expect in The Coin Game. If you’re an arcade aficionado, however, we’d still love to hear what you thought of the stream. Feel free to share your honest opinions about Mattie’s skills (or lack of them!).

Thank you so much for taking the time to watch our stream and we hope you enjoyed it!

If you want to chat with more like-minded Islandvillers, don’t forget to click the big button below and join our Discord.

Maddie @ Kwalee[/h3]

Update #029
Version: V0.9990
Build# 000000000


Greetings fellow Islandvillers! It's update time! This is the first update working with my new partners and all I can say is... So far. So Wonderful! They are showing me more opportunities for the game than I even knew existed. We are going to build great things together. That I know. I now have the ability to just work on the GAME. It's amazing. (I mean... I even have a teammate that checks my speling and grammer. I prob don't need it thuogh.) So BIG THANK YOU to the Kwalee team. Well Barry's in the background yelling at me right now "Enough suit talk junior... lets get to the gravy!". So here we go.

This update brings one new vehicle, a couple of new games, a couple of new locations, a programmable nanny bot and some good old fashion bug fixing. I made sure to spend some time fixing older bugs that were haunting players for years. I am really striving to make the game better and not just bigger. But hopefully there will be no more bicycles on the roof of Jerrys. I see players are exchanging strats in the discord on how to fetch their bikes from the roof. If you haven't checked out the discord I recommend it. Lots of fun and some great islandvillers in there. The Coin Game memes alone are worth it.

This updates features:



- Nanny Bot is now programmable just like Stinky Jimmy the Junkman and Skippy the Scout newspaper bot. If you are playing survivor mode, the old bucket of bolts can be programmed to go shopping for you and Gary. You must have $20.00 in your ICU Savings account for the program to work. If you have the money, click on her yellow button on her back and she will "open up" with a key pad. Then you can enter the 4 digit code into the key pad and she will deliver the goods to your kitchen counter. She is not the fastest but she gets great deals from Jerry on items as they come from the same bot manufacturing plant. She will probably complain a little but she just doesn't like to be away from her Gary. If you program her and then go to sleep in survivor mode, she will have your goodies in the morning on the table. Remember that to program a "programmable" bot you simply click the back round yellow button on them and then click the key pad when it rotates out. Then you can enter the 4 digit code. It will give an error if you don't have the money in your savings or the code is entered wrong. The programmable bots rear LED will be green when in "default" mode and Nanny Bot will be purple when she is doing a job or in "program" mode. You can cancel a program with code 0000. I don't know why you would do that but I coded it in. lol. Just in case.




- I added a Used Family Mini Van for sale in Jerry's parking lot. $1800 is a steal for a unit like this. It's a little faster to travel around Islandville. It also has a few planned features which are not yet finished. The van will make cruising with friends possible in Multiplayer someday but for now it is just another option to cruise around with. It takes a little more gas but it is much faster than the bike or the golf kart. Make sure to check the gas gauge when you buy it... Jerry has been known to sell cars with little to no gas in them.



- There is a radio in the Van (R key) or (Left D Pad) on controller to turn it on or off. For now, it's really simple and has no other features yet. It just plays the local radio and if you turn the radio on and off it will skip to the next song.




- New PAY LOAD Coin Dump game at the Mall Arcade. One of my favorite games in the real world. Inspired by the classic coin ramp game "Big Rig Truckin". Line up the ramp and time it just right to win big tickets. Get it in the bucket... 10 tickets. Hit the dump lever or through the bonus hoops and win BIG on just a single $1.




- I added a shady "Shell Game" behind Barry's pawn shop. Who doesn't love a good street artist? Well I guess you could call it that. When the limo driver is not dragging Islandville brats around the town, he is making a little extra money behind Barry's pawn shop. You can wager some cash and if you pick the correct cup after he shuffles them up you will win double your money back. Make sure to keep your eye on the red ball... but it's kind of impossible as he is a robot and is faster than you think. Good luck. You are going to need it. Make sure to keep your head on a swivel so you don't get beat up by the bad bots while you are on their turf. Oh I almost forgot. For you big gamblers...you can also go ALL IN and risk it all for the ultimate double up. Make sure to have some back up cheesy poofs to get home though if things don't work out.




- Added more "construction" zones to the island to show some of the future building sites. The bots are always working in the background.




- Added Goose Lodge 377 at the main intersection. It will be open in the future for some fun "old school" games and more in the future.

- Adjusted the , and . buttons that speed up and slow down the C "Free cam" for making better movies and pics.

- Added a reset Van button to the wrist watch map. It can still roll over in a bad crash so I am working on a "self righting" system for the future. For now, you can always use the reset van button.



- Fixed the bug where the bike would disappear when you went into a building or when you left it under the awning at Jerrys Gas and Go. Bike is now "frozen" when you go inside any building.

- Quieter Mega Drop Noise when Ball Drops. No more EREEEEEERRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEGGGHGHGHHHHH screaming from the mega drop machine. Well, it still screams, but just not as loud.

- Removed the Red Cross markings from the game as it violated Article 38 of the Geneva Convention. Thanks to the Finnish Red Cross Volunteer for pointing that out to me. ;)

- Adjusted Health and Energy on Pizza and Lemonade. A little bit of health increase instead of just energy.

- Adjusted the Health and Energy from a nights rest in Survivor Mode. It no longer just sets the health to 99 and 65 energy. It will now just add +35 points of health and +50 energy to the players current levels.

- Fixed the small percentage menu on the fish tank. When it says 100%, it would look like 10%.

- Fixed the "glitch" were you could insert an item into Barry's pawn shredder and get free loot. I loved all the piles of cash pics but it was bankrupting Barry. He said he is going to need that loot for his new Lambo wheels. Sorry.

- Fixed the display of Coins Balance in the watch stats menu.

- Added the Coins Saved Balance to the wrist watch stats menu.

- Some other small optimization bugs for garbage collection.

So that's about it for this Fall update. For now I will be fixing bugs and doing small patches to adjust some parameters after I get more feedback from the update. After checking out the new update, make sure to check out all of our new socials that I am working on with Maddie. We have a Discord now, an official Facebook page, and more to come. As always a HUGE thank you to all of you for supporting this crazy project. Now I have to go win my money back from that lucky limo driver...

Don't forget to support you local arcade!

Kevin

Hey there Islandvillers!

As Kevin mentioned in his previous announcement, he’s recently partnered with us at Kwalee to work together towards the 1.0 launch of The Coin Game. So while Kevin and the new coding teams begin to “re-construct” Islandville to a new higher standard of living, I will be helping out by creating some new community areas that Islandville has been without for too long.

You may have already noticed me lurking around the Steam Forums. My name is Madison, but you can call me Maddie! I’m going to be the main community manager for The Coin Game, so I’ll be focusing on creating some new community spaces where all Islandvillers can chat, relax, and give feedback.

With that awkward introduction out of the way, I’m excited to announce that we’ve officially opened The Coin Game Discord!

You can either follow the link on the store page or click on the big button below to join us and check it out 👇





Because I am a little newer to the game than some of you veteran Islandvillers, I have spoken to Kevin and he and I agree that we want our next steps to be led by you all as much as possible. For this reason, we’ve laid out a community roadmap that we hope you’ll all enjoy taking part of, although please feel free to make suggestions either in the comments or in the new Discord.

Here are the next steps we’ll be taking to build out the community spaces for The Coin Game:

• I’ll be reaching out to and assigning Discord moderators from the community based on Kevin’s suggestions.
  
• I’ll be inviting you all to make suggestions for what the names of our new roles should be. All new Discord members are called Islandvillers by default, but we now need names for our moderators, our community superstars, our content creators, and our (future) giveaway prize winners. Once the role name suggestion deadline is up, we’ll hold a vote to determine what the new roles will be called! Please make your suggestions in the Role Name Suggestions thread in the feedback channel of the Discord. The deadline to submit suggestions is Friday October 11th.
  
• After the role names are decided, I’ll be asking you all to make some suggestions on what emojis you’d like to see made for the Discord. Depending on how many suggestions we get, we may put this one to a vote or I might present the suggestions to Kevin so he can decide which emojis we start off with (but they’ll always be a chance to add more, so don’t worry if your suggestion doesn’t get picked). Please use the Emoji Suggestions thread in the feedback channel of the Discord to make emoji suggestions. There is no deadline for this one, so make as many suggestions as you like whenever you like!
  
• I’m going to try to source some cool items that could be used as competition or giveaway prizes. Please feel free to share any prize suggestions or competition ideas in the feedback channel of the Discord and I’ll check them out for inspiration.
  
• Further down the line, I’ll be setting up social media channels for The Coin Game, so I can start sharing content for the game. I’ll be accepting any and all submissions for content from the community, so upload anything you’d like me to share in the content showcase channel, tag me in the post, and let me know how I can credit/tag you on social media! I’ll only share content you’ve uploaded in the content showcase channel if you tag me and give me permission to do so.
  

Thank you so much for taking the time to read all of that!

I hope you’re as excited about these next steps as I am and I look forward to meeting more of you in our new Discord.

Maddie @ Kwalee

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