The Coin Game News

Update #011
Version: V0.979

Build #4453460

Now that the game is in a "together state" and not spread all around my office in pieces, I am now able to put up more small bug fixes and little changes. So here is just a little one with a couple doodads here and there. (< thats technical speak for you non computer people haha)

I would say half of these bugs were just reported in the last 24 hours. I read them all and I am working all hours of the clock to build the best game that I can for you. Thank you for all the wonderful reviews and nominations for the Steam Awards. I am truely touched and even more charged up to make this the best game I possibly can.

Another small patch and more bug fixes:
- Menus: Added an all new Help Menu when your card is in any machine. When your card is in the machine you will see a Small Box with a ? on it in the corner appear. Hit the H key and you will see more info on the current machine. This should help answer some of the questions that folks have on how some of the machines function. This menu is not done but I felt an unfinished help menu is better than no Help menu at all. ;)
- Menus: No Help Menus on SpeedDrop and StackemUp. They will be added later.
- GolfCart: I gave the Golf Cart more Miles Per Gallon as it was eating a little too much fuel. 50% increase
- Popcorn Petes Coin Pusher: Moved the Bonus spawn spot for popcorn Pete and Dunko plush was appearing in the machines.
- Popcorn Petes Coin Pusher: Added a little more interior light to the Popcorn Pete Pushers
- Popcorn Petes Coin Pusher: Moved the celebration menus up a bit so you can continue smashing that play button.
- Popcorn Petes Coin Pusher: Made the Connie Kernal card a little less rare so you dont have to play one machine all night long.
- Dunko Coin Pusher: Made the Dunko Cards all a little less rare aswell.
- Kart Race: Fixed the bots freaking out in the Trophy Ceremony at the Race Karts.
- Kart Race: Rebuilt the Driving Menu on the Race Karts.
- Kart Race: Fixed the spawn spots on the podium for the player. Before you would spawn into the floor and not on the podium.
- Kart Race: Fixed broken colliders to the Podium back wall at the Kart Race Track
- LazerTag: Fixed the ticket showing through the wall after playing a round.
- UFO Arcade: Fixed the LCD signs and reset them now when you go inside or outside.
- UFO Arcade: Added the Uncle Phil funded Money Blower Machine to the UFO Arcade to save time to Birthday go'ers.
- UFO Arcade: Added some larger poster of some of the Popcorn Petes cards as someone wanted to see them up a little closer.

Please let me know how the changes go and be sure to stop by the SUGGESTIONS thread and tell me what you would like to see in The Coin Game. I read EVERY single one of them. You never know when your idea (silly or not) may make it into The Coin Game.

Kevin

Update #010
Version: V0.978

Well I am happy to announce that the UFO Arcade and Family Fun Center is now OPEN FOR BUSINESS! I bribed the new owners to let you all in early and start enjoying all the fun things that they have to offer. There are still some things to add and nudge, but I thought that you all would enjoy the facility in it's current state. It's out this world! (The new owners told me to say that.)

In classic devotid media style, I went way bigger than I had originally planned and I am glad that I did. I managed to finish 15 completely new games, two new locations and have a few others that are still getting worked on. So I please ask you to "Pardon our dust" at the UFO Arcade. Even better news though is that with the game in its current updated state, I will be able to introduce more updates now with smaller changes and fixes. Along side of building the new UFO Arcade I have been fixing and building in new systems for future development, but more on that later.... You have a new universe to explore!

Here is a new trailer for The Coin Game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H8SIvasckM

The New UFO Arcade features:

- LAZER TAG 4 on 4 Battles with AI Bots. Blue Vs Red.


- UFO RACEWAY Indoor Racing Gas Go Karts. 6 Laps Time Trial. Trophies for 1st, 2nd and 3rd fastest laps per session.


- POPCORN PETES COIN PUSHER with card collection System. Collect all 8 cards and win a Pete Plush.


- DOWN A BOT Carnival inspired ball throwing game.


- JUST TOSS IT is a fun milk jug tossing game.


- ICEBERG BOUNCE ping pong ball tossing game with a fun and flashy bonus round.


- WHAC A BOT Classic arcade game with a bonus system.


- CLOCKTOWER gear turning ball drop style game.


- TYPHOON round light skill stop game. A heavily requested game and was very fun to build.


- SKEEBOWL UFO is a space inspired version of skeeball.


- BUTTERFLY CATCHER is a pusher style skill game of "catching" balls that are supposed to be "butterfly's."


- WORMHOLE is a ball drop timing game with a increasing bonus feature.




New Prizes available at the UFO Arcade ticket redemption booth:
- Bag of Star Dust
- Alien inflatable
- Pet Moon Rock
- Star Plush " Twinkles"
- Star Plush "Lucky"
- Saturn Planet plush
- UFO Space Ship toy model
- Lava Lamp
- Plasma Ball
- Flux Capacitor
- Light Saber RED
- Light Saber BLUE
- Hoverboard BLUE
- Hoverboard PINK


NEW HOME
This update also brings a completely new house to stash all your goodies in and will be the "home base" in the coming survivor mode. There is a bedroom for you upstairs and also don't forget to feed Gary your pet swan goose (yeah. its a real thing... google it. I had to too.) and the fish in your fish tank. To feed them just click on the food containers in the living room. All of this stuff in the house will be way more important later on in development when you are in survivor mode.







NEW LIMO RIDE
Uncle Phil opened his wallet once again and spruced up the way you travel (teleport) in Birthday Mode. Now when you open your wallet outside and choose a destination a very well payed bot will be there in a jiffy with a stretch black limo just for you. You dont even have to tip the driver. The birthday go'ers in the limo with you are only interested in playing at the main arcades, so if you go anywhere but Larrys or the UFO Arcade you are riding solo.





LARRY ARCADE UPDATES:
During the building of the new arcade at UFO point Larry has been busy updating "Islandvilles Original Arcade" as well. I guess the new Mega Drop is installed and working great. He even turned the winnings up a bit to make up for all the scamming over the last couple months. What a guy. Huh? Larrys also has been busy working on the coin pushers as he added a collectible card system similar to the one at UFO arcade. Collect all five of the Dunko cards and win a awesome Dunko Duck plush!



OTHER BUG FIXES:
- Fix the Leaderboards Not being "on" at default and not saving the state between games. You should not have to tun them on or off each time.
- Adjusted all pricing and money amounts that Barrys Pawn Shop will pay you for items. Should be more fair now as some items were pretty far superior to others. I will update the guide on "prize payout percentages" as soon as I can.
- Fixed the coin pushers at the Carnival as they were not loading correctly all the time.
- Removed the cable systems on the Prizemaster as It would freak out and look like a crazy ghost running around larrys.
- Added colliders to the top of the Claw Machines.
- And a bunch of other bug fixes that WONDERFUL USERS LIKE YOU helped me find in the bug section of our discussion forums. THANK YOU AGAIN for that. :)

I will be updating and fixing bugs this week as we all find them so expect a couple more small things here and there. I recommend starting a new game and not continuing a older saved game. Lots of stuff is new and different so you could see some conflicts. I will be adding more achievements to the game in the future but I want to make sure things are working on a bigger scale first.

As always..... I want to say thank you to all of you for supporting The Coin Game. I would not be able to do this without all of you helping. I will now be working on finishing up a couple new fun games at the UFO arcade and then on to the survivor mode release. I have lots of silliness and good old fashion top quality time wasting planned for all of you.

And a final note. I will be increasing the price of the game once the survivor mode is released.

Kevin
"devotid"

The new update is WAY bigger than I originally planned and I am very happy with how it is going so far. This next update will be focused on a new arcade, expanding your home base out of the garage and into the home. Also, Uncle Phil ordered a limousine to keep your birthday party going as you travel around islandville.

It going to be a tough few weeks....but I feel like I am on "schedule". Most all of the hard work is finished and now just a bunch of busy work nudging, making icons, images and menus. I have already spent many hours "testing" in the UFO arcade and I really can't wait to share it with all of you very soon.

Since my last sneak peak of the UFO arcade, I have nearly everything completed that will be included for this coming update, minus a few more new games that just need textures and menus. Over the last couple weeks I have been finishing all the new UFO Arcade leaderboards and laser tag systems. I also finished a completely new MegaDrop at Larry's arcade. He was fed up with the old one scamming customers and his order should be in stock in a few weeks when the next update is out. He heard about the new UFO arcade coming and has fixed all kinds of stuff around the arcade. He said he will not go silently. He even added a collectible card counting system for Dunko with a new Duck prize. He also spruced up Cuckoo Coin too. I heard he is even working on some "super secret stuff" for the future to compete with all this fancy stuff at the new UFO arcade.

Ill have lots more news and info once I wrap it all up in a few weeks but for now I am in a hurry to get back to "testing" at the UFO Arcade. haha

Thanks to all of our supporters as this entire project would not be possible without all of you.

Kevin

VIDEO:
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Birthday Mode Limousine service

Popcorn Pete and friends


Typhoon

Clock Tower

Whac-A-Bot!

Skee Bowl

Iceberg Bounce

Just Toss it!

Down A Bot!

Lazer Tag - Red vs. Blue winner takes all.


Go Kart Race - 6 laps trophy for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.

Gary

New Sign, finally.

Dunk-O cards do something now!

All new Mega Drop

Carnival Coin Push repaired.

I took some time out of development this week to put together a little edit of some of the new things that are coming to The Coin Game in the next couple updates this fall.

All of the content in the video is WORK IN PROGRESS but I am trying to share more of the building process with all of you.

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

Please let me know what ya think and as always... Thank you very much for sharing and supporting The Coin Game.

Kevin
"devotid"

Greetings Islandvillers!

Since the Carnival update I have been busy working on the next BIG arcade to hit Islandville Island. Its called UFO Arcade and will be in the next update.

I have been modeling and texturing for weeks and weeks now and have all of the "base textures" finished on all of the new models for the UFO Arcade. This is when I take the the textures from Substance Painter into Photoshop and give them all of their final logos and branding. It is my favorite part as I get to make up silly names for all of the games. You can see in most of the pics below that the machines are still waiting names and imaging. I cant wait until you folks get to meet Popcorn Pete and Friends coin pusher. I think you are going to love it.

The physics for most of the new machines are what I am currently working on and then they just need to get their final names/colors/branding. After that I have to build the leaderboard menus at the UFO Arcade. I have not decided on how I will award winners or losers in the Laser Tag and Kart Racing but it will offer another way to make money and tickets. I ended up making the new arcade way bigger than I originally planned... but I also received more fun ideas from all of you than I had planned too. :)

I am also now able to get the fixes installed at Larrys for a few of the Machines. Rumor has it Larry beat the Mega Drop machine with a sledge hammer because it scammed so many kids. New one is getting delivered right now and will be ready when UFO arcade opens it doors.



Some of the new features at the UFO Arcade are:

- 50,000 Sqft facility with 3 main areas of fun.
- Modern Arcade with Ticket redemption system for Prizes
- Lazer Tag arena with Battling AI Bots
- Go Kart Track with racing AI Bots
- 10 completely new machines and Coin Pushers plus a few of the originals with new branding, bonuses and game mechanics.
- New UFO inspired prizes at the arcade ticket redemption area.






















Some early renders of the new machines coming to UFO Arcade.


























------- EXTRA BONUS TEASER PICS -------
I am also including some far off teaser pics from the future "Survivor Mode". This way users can get an idea of where we are going with that side of the adventure. What a lot of people dont even realize is that I am building a whole other section of the game called "Survivor Mode". Since the release of the game in Feb, I have been building the main machines, carnivals and arcades for all to enjoy but along side of that I am writing a backstory and building a fun adventure to challenge your youth filled survival skills. ;)

I am finishing up a new "Home" for you to keep all of your loot and winnings. I am only sharing pics of this for now..... Details will come later on how its all going to work. I just have so much planned!

This is gary. He is your pet Swan Goose. He is a Champion Thoroughbred Swan Goose and kind of a celebrity on the island. He likes to eat at a certain time everyday and loves to watch Popcorn Pete and friends on the TV. If he isnt sleeping, using the restroom (yes, He is potty trained) or eating you can rest assured he is prob very close to you. He has separation issues.




Your new bedroom to store all your winnings.


Uncle Phils Original Workshop


As always I want to say THANK YOU to all of the users as this would not be possible without you.

Kevin
"devotid"