Who’s ready for a DUNKO sized deal?!

The Coin Game has been selected for a Daily Deal and is currently on the front page of the Steam store - which is a heckin’ big deal!

As part of the Daily Deal, The Coin Game will be 30% off until Saturday 5th April, but will be on the storefront for ONE DAY only.



The Coin Game is an arcade life simulation where you are the lone human resident. With over 50 arcade games to choose from and no line to wait in, you’ll soon become an arcade master! Choose from either Birthday Mode, where Uncle Phil has kindly gifted you unlimited money to play as much as you desire, or Survival Mode, where you’ll need to put your arcade skills to the test and find ways to earn money to consume all the junk food.

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

In case you missed it - we also released a brand spanking new content update! The majestic Goose Lodge Gaming and Casino is now open for business, for all your bingo needs! Follow the link below to read all about this latest content update.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/598980/view/509576141634273289

And that’s all we have time for today - until next time, folks!

Sarah @ Kwalee

March 29th 2025

Update #031
Version: V0.9992
Build# 000000000

Summary:
- Grand Opening of the Goose Lodge Gaming and Casino area.
- New Bingo game system against Islandville bots. Play 1-3 cards.
- New Quick Ripps. Fun lotto card rippers in 3 different values.
- New Slot Machine. Wild Goose Chase.
- New Slot Machine. Islandville Jackpots with free spin Bonus system.
- Bug Fixes: Game saving bug fixes.
- Bug Fixes: Lighting fixes at the beach and One Eye'd Billies indoors.
- Added new controller support for Lotto and New Quick Ripps.

Hello arcaders! it's update time! This update introduces the new Goose Lodge indoor location, 3 new gaming machines, Quick Ripps and a complete bingo system. I will be rolling out this new Goose Lodge indoor location in 2 phases (like I have done with all new locations). This gives me a chance to try some things on a smaller scale and adjust after I get more player feedback.



The largest part of this new update is the Bingo game system inside of the Goose Lodge. I really tried to capture the small town community Bingo hall in all of its "glory". Many people drive by Bingo halls on a daily basis and will never step foot into one of them. So now The Coin Game offers a way to fill your digital lungs with all that small town Bingo goodness. So get in there and grab an uncomfortable chair at a wobbly folding table and get to work!



After you insert your players card in the machine/table (next to purple mohawk Rhonda in the middle of the room) you can choose from 1-3 Bingo Cards. They are $2.50 per card/per game. As the Bingo caller calls out the randomly drawn numbers you must mark them on your bingo cards with a blue "dab" (or dot). If you match 5 in a row before all of the other bots, you win the whole pot. You can see the value of the game you are playing on the Goose Lodge wall monitor (see below images).







The center spot of all cards is a free spot and will start each game as already "dabbed". You must have the called numbers "dabbed" (clicked showing a blue dot) on your bingo card for the "bingo" win to count. If the bingo is good and called before the other bots, the payout staff will come to your table and pay you out in cash.



Throughout phase 1 there will be some dust and boxes laying around the Goose Lodge as Gary is still setting up his new business. No, not the adorable but annoying Swan-Goose Gary... the other Gary. What's that? You don't know Gary? Oh forgive me. Gary is the bot who's "head" glitters like a Bass boat and the one who still wears his bowling shirt and shoes from the 90's. He is the owner of the Goose Lodge and you will most likely find him in his "mini-casino" area just off the bingo gaming floor. A few years ago Gary bought a bunch of old slot machines from a swap meet and has been retro-fitting them to be able to played with your players club card. He will be testing and adjusting the machines all day and night until he gets it right. The guy is a psycho about numbers and providing a fun and fair experience to all his patrons. So give him a break if they need some adjustment later down the line. ;) He said they are just for charity and that he donates all the money to Rusting/Aging Bots in the community. The slots will pay out in cash right on you players card.



Over the past few months I have been building these new slot machines along side of updating the project to Unity 2022 game engine (more info on that later). They have really been a blast to make. I love the mechanics of slot machines and had ideas of adding them years ago but never got around to it as there is still so many arcade machines to add. I could not put them off anymore though as MANY players have been asking for them since day one. Thank you for being patient and I am glad to finally put in serious time and make them as good as I can for you. Let me know what you think of them. As someone who loves all things analog and tactile... I had to do old fashioned "reels" type slot machines. I love the clunk and noises of the turning wheels. It really can be a fun rush to hit a free spin bonus.

The first slot machine is called Wild Goose Chase. It is a "Wild card" style slot. It is a single payline machine. You can wager 1-3 credits by using the left joystick (or A and D Key on keyboard) to increase or decrease the bet. Press the interact button to spin the reels and let the magic happen. All possible payouts are listed on the top panel of both machines.



The second slot machine is called Islandville Jackpots. It is a Free Spin bonus style slot machine. It is also a single payline machine. You can wager 1 or 2 credits. The object is to get as many Jackpot Logos as possible on the single payline. Payouts are on the top of both machines. If you hit all three of the bonus logos the machine will enter a bonus mode. After you match 3 bonus values of free spins the machine will enter auto mode and spin until all of your free spins are gone. Depending on the value that you matched you could 1x, 2x or even 3x your whole spin bonus! Remember. Gary said that these are just for fun and charity to fix the pot holes around Islandville and stuff. Also, there are no leaderboards or tickets dispensed from the slot machines.



The third machine in the Goose Lodge that I have added is a Quick Ripps lotto dispenser. It sells small lotto cards that are inspired by the Pull Tabs you can find in many Bingo halls around the US. I thought they were a great addition to the "small town casino" style theme that I have built into the Goose Lodge. You basically pick the value of the Ripper that you want and buy them. Rip the covers off the values and hopefully reveal a winner. They are pretty simple but a ton of fun to rip.



If you get hungry in the Goose Lodge there is always popcorn and snacks available 24/7. The Lodge never closes, so feel free to drop in and try your luck anytime of the day or night!



That about does it for this content update. Thank you VERY MUCH for supporting The Coin Game. It has been almost 6 years since launching this goofy idea and I am forever grateful that I get the privilege to work on this title for you.


IMPORTANT NOTE: The Goose Lodge update is new content and new machines only. It does NOT contain any of the optimizations that I am working on for the new Unity "2022" version of The Coin Game that is coming later this summer. Those optimizations will come in one of the next updates of 2025. Long story short... the hiccup/stutter/glitch is still there and we must work around it for just a LITTLE longer. Trust me though... I have played the updated version and its all gone. Smooth as butter. I cant wait to get it to all of you sometime this summer. There is just so much to do still. Its not something that just gets done in a month or two. We are going on 6 months and still have a couple more to go. THANK YOU For your patience and understanding.

If you love The Coin Game and want to see more... you can help me out by leaving the game a good review on the Steam Store page. It makes a huge difference for a single indie dev like myself.

Thank you.

"devotid"
Kevin

The Coin Game is an arcade life simulation set in Islandville, where you are the lone human resident surrounded by robots. Enjoy over 50 arcade games, without the added stress of waiting in line! Choose from either Birthday Mode, where you can play as much as you want with unlimited money, or Survival Mode, where you’ll need to pick up jobs around town to afford your arcade habit, while eating an insane amount of junk food to survive.

Alongside the arcades, you can also visit the likes of Lenny’s Water Wonderland, IslandTime Amusements, and much more. Explore the sights of Islandville as you cruise in your golf buggy, ‘accidentally’ feed Gary the Goose some of those glorious Cheesy Poofs, and set off some fireworks! Just make sure you stick to Nannybot’s curfew.

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

The Spring Sale will run from today until Thursday 20th March - don’t miss out on this sweet, sweet deal.

That’s enough blabbin’ from me, now go hit the arcade!

Sarah @ Kwalee

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

We’re excited to announce that The Coin Game is 25% off as part of the Winter Sale!



The Coin Game is an arcade life simulation where you are the lone human resident. With over 50 arcade games to choose from and no line to wait in, you’ll soon become an arcade master! Choose from either Birthday Mode, where Uncle Phil has kindly gifted you unlimited money to play as much as you desire, or Survival Mode, where you’ll need to put your arcade skills to the test and find ways to earn money to consume all the junk food.

Alongside the arcades, you can also explore the likes of Barry’s Pawn Shop, Lenny’s Water Wonderland, Frankie’s Quality Fireworks stall, and much more. Meet the whacky robot residents, fling those rubber bands, and make sure you don’t let that pesky Gary the Goose steal those Cheesy Poofs! Just make sure you’re home in time for Nannybots curfew.

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 expect more content in future updates!

And if that’s not enough - Islandville is currently all decked out for the holidays! Dash around in the snow and enjoy the festive lights as you collect those tickets.



The Winter Sale will run from today until Thursday January 2nd, so get your mitts on this sweet deal!

That’s it, folks! Enjoy your holidays!

Sarah @ Kwalee

HO HO HO! Hello Islandvillers!



I had a chat with Jerry Bot while filling up the family van last week and he said he told all the bots around Islandville that we needed to up the "festive cheer" this year. He said he cant be the only one who loves the holidays and they all agreed. So Jerry, Barry and the worker bots went crazy last week and decorated the whole island. True story.

I actually wanted to do this last year but I was busy cramming in the water park, so there was just not enough time. This year, I went all out and put up Christmas decorations all around the island. I hope you like it. I had an absolute blast making it.



I always loved small town pole decorations and also when businesses would put a huge Santa sleigh on the roof. The cheesier the better. I had to throw in a couple of those.



Barry organized all the Main Street lights that are overhead, and also went a little overboard on his pawn building. He loves this time of year.



Everyone has that one neighbor that just LOVES this time of the year. Haha.



So thats about it. Just some fun ambiance for the holiday season. Take a cruise in the Mini Van and enjoy the smooth Christmas tunes on the radio (R Key) while you take in the islands decorations. This update is just for fun and will be temporary for the holiday season. After this I will be working on the next location (Goose Lodge) and I will also be working with the new coding team to bring The Coin Game into a newer version of Unity. It's going to be a LOT of work but the game deserves it!

See you all next year. Thank you again for supporting The Coin Game, and don't forget to support your LOCAL arcade!

Merry Christmas.

Kevin

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?



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

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

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