The Coin Game News

Update #012
Version: V0.981

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0M2xVrEpmA&feature=youtu.be

I finished up the new "Dude Where's My Cow?" Claw Machine at UFO Arcade and also rebuilt the two claw machines from Larry's Arcade. No more freak outs and claws stuck through the glass anymore. They are more fun to play now. More consistent too. (Not the winning of course as they are Claw Machines. lol) I also added new themes to Larry's Claw machines as they were in dire need of a texture redo too. Claw Madness? Who even makes this stuff up? (Wait a minute....)

This is Kyle the Cow. He is a good cow. He is from the Alsace Region of France and he needs your help. "Dem Aliens" are trying to take him home for some studying. Hurry and throw your loot at the machine to try and save him.... he would do it for you. Then if you win him, you can show him you love him by selling him for lotto ticket money at Barry's Pawn shop.





Another thing that I have been working on is all new hand animations for all of the machines that have joysticks or push buttons. Now when you put your card in the machines you will see your hands doing stuff instead of dangling by your side like a weirdo using telepathy. For now the animations are only on the machines with a joystick or push button. I am still building the throwing animations for UFO, the carnival games and Larry's Skee ball.





Other Changes and Bug Fixes:
- Race Karts: Added new colors and adjustments to the Kart Race on screen race menus.
- Player: Tickets in hand will be hidden when a card is inserted into any machine now.
- Lazer Tag: Updated and adjusted the vest loading animation. Before it was so close to your head you didn't even see it loading on the screen. Now it comes right at you and on more horizontally.
- Video Settings: a couple small adjustments on the Quality settings for shadow distances. (Still finishing a new VIDEO Settings menu for later optimizations.)




Don't forget to pop into the PINNED thread about "what you would like to see in The Coin Game." I read them ALL and use many of the ideas I read. I do thank you all for the wonderful help on finding bugs. I am very grateful for the time and effort you put into it.

Have a wonderful day. That's about it for this update. Keep and eye out for more updates throughout this holiday season.

Kevin

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.

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

Kevin
"devotid"