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:



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.



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"

CARNIVAL is Here! Largest Update Ever!
Update #007 - Version: V0.953

Carnival is Here! Come get your worthless trinkets and under-stuffed rip-off plush toys! Who doesnt love warm summer nights and getting haggled at by some crusty carnival worker for overpriced junk. :) Step Right Up!

I hope the carnival brings back as many wonderful memories for you as it did for us making it. This one was about 6 years in the making. (Literally) I have been dreaming this carnival up since I was a wee lad. Ever since I started making video games I have imagined this carnival and the silly games that I could create. It feels great to get it completed and share it all with you. :)

Islandtime Amusements Traveling Carnival:
- 8 new interactive carnival booth games with robotic workers.
- 15+ new carnival inspired toys/prizes to win and barter with at Barrys or to keep on your shelf at home. You decide.
- 7 classic carnival rides to make you sick and feel like your flying at your desk.
- Lots of new silly characters to interact with that work for Islandtime Amusements.

UPDATE 7-1-2019: Pushed a small hot fix for the Carnival coin pushers, The bus loading system and parked semi colliders.

UPDATE 7-9-2019: Pushed another small update to fix some small bugs.
- Fixed the colliders in the Hockey Hut that was eating some of your wins.
- Changed the exiting of vehicles. You must now Hit the Exit Vehicle button/key. (E Key on the Keyboard and Y button on a generic controller.) no more having to take out the player card.
- Turned the BasketBall announcer down a bit. He was all fired up and yelling at everyone.
- Turned off the cursor controller and the ability to grab things and push buttons while in the golf cart. It was just causing all kinds of problems. No more drive thru service. haha
- Readjust the freebie dropper at the carnie coin pusher as it was putting items in un-winnable locations.
















New carnival games:

Balloon Pop:


Shoot the Star:


Duck Pool Pick:


Water Dachshund Race:


Ping Pong Water Lilly Pad Toss:


Pro Roller:


Basketball Shot:



Carnival Ticket Booth:


Just walk up and put your playercard in and blow some coin on some fun rides.


New Carnival Rides:

Ferris Wheel:



Tilt-A-Whirl:



Islandtime Raceway Loop:



Moon Mission Tower:



PirateShip Adventure:



Carousel Swings:



Bumper Cars:





Food and Drink:

There is also a couple new places to grab some overpriced "food" (if you want to call elephant ears a food) and some good old fashioned "fresh" squeezed lemonade.

Elephant Ears:


Lemonade Stand:



Other bug fixes and Notes:

- Added 6 New Achievements for riding the carnival rides and playing the carnival games.
- Fixed a bunch of audio menu bugs were it would reset the menu click sound and blow your ear drums out. oops.
- Option to turn off the leaderboards in game. You can always turn them On or Off from the options menu in game.
- Fixed the wiggling bots crisis when you got close to them. No. They were not scared of you... just broken.
- Fixed Treasure in the Sand as it was displaying a wrong price on the Menu.
- Fixed the Arcade Coins falling onto the floor of arcade.
- fixed the hoverboard kids mouth on the side of their faces...lol.
and a bunch of other little stuff that will make gameplay a little smoother.

Now I am going to take a couple days off and I think I know of a good carnival across town the wife and I will go do some more "research". ;)

Thank you again for supporting me and my wife on this amazingly fun journey. This is the best community we have ever been involved with and we cannot thank you enough for allowing us to make this game for you.

I will post more news and info about the coming Survivor Mode, Donnies Dump, UFO Arcade and even more silliness coming later down the road.... but for now go and enjoy the summer carnival. Uncle Phils orders!

Kevin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5w7HXFtr5A

Ok. The carnival has taken me much longer than I expected. I feel like I have said that before. haha

So many little things that tie up a whole day and then before I know it, I have to sleep again. I liked the idea some of the users had about getting a clone of myself.

I will keep it short and sweet with a video of my progress and get right back to working. ;) (Plus Motocross is on today... :) )

As always THANKS SO MUCH for supporting The Coin Game. I could not do this without all of your support, wonderful ideas and beta testing.

Kevin

See you soon at the Carnie!

Update #006
Version: V0.943

TITLE: KABOOOOOOM! New robo friends, fireworks, eye candy, fixed leaderboards, cart fuel burning physics and much more.

Over the past 30 days I have touched almost every aspect of the game tweaking and fixing the little things that make big differences to enjoyment and flow of the game. I also threw in a bunch of new stuff to have a bunch of fun with.

Here is a short Vid of the new update.... Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI7fvfXAJkM


LEADERBOARDS:

- Fixed the leaderboards not updating at Larry's Arcade and also made it so you have to pick up your tickets that you just won from each machine. After the game is over the the ticket dispenser will drop your tickets right in front of the machine. (obviously only if you won some silly). You then have to pick them up (F KEY) and take them to the ticket eater before you can spend them. There is no way that Larry is counting all those tickets for you. Not for $8.25 an hour anyway.

- I also had to RESET all leaderboards and all save game files. I am very sorry BUT this had to be done for the early access version as things are always changing and I am adding new content. They may reset again in the future as I change the way that the leaderboards are calculated. (ie; best single game and not most played. Its not fair if someone plays all day..... So I am working on that along side of the new leaderboards for the other locations. But look on the brightside if you are reading this early you can get that screen grab of you topping the charts and share it around the watercooler tomorrow at lunch break. Huh huh? Right?








FIREWORKS:

- Added a new fireworks stand at the beach across from the bus stop. Its run by a cool old dude named Frankie. He is an old vet that loves his pyrotechnics, Rhonda (His Lady Friend), baseball and freedom. He shows you all the "good stuff" without even having to ask and he never asks for an ID. Roman Candles, extra large bottle rockets, 16 shot mortar bricks and of course some of them new hip smoke bombs that are all the rage on the interwebs. So save up that money and put on a show for the locals. They will love you for it.

You light the fireworks with the right click button. After enjoying the splendor of the boom and bangs you can even get .50 cents for some of them at Barry's Pawn shop/recycler machine. The bottle rockets can be pretty hard to find after sending them into space though. lol.






GOLF CART:

- Added a fuel burning system to the golf cart. You now have to buy fuel from Jerrys Gas and Go with your cash. You can purchase it in a single can or a 5 pack of cans from the pumps in front of Jerry's. Jerry's is still out of the RACE FUEL but I heard that stuff will make the golf cart sing. He said he doesn't know when it will be in stock again but he said it should be around the same time the Carnies come to town.

- To fill the golf cart with fuel you simply purchase a can from Jerry's (available in single or 5 packs) and then set it next to the driver side of the cart. You can see the gas cap on the side with the steering wheel. Once you have the can in position, right click on the can and it will autofill into the cart. The cart fuel tank holds about 5-6 cans(Approx 6.5 Gallons). Currently the carburetor on the golf cart is pretty clogged and its getting REALLY bad gas mileage. Later in the future Jerry should be able to help you get a little more oouummmfff outta of her. But for now he is really busy working on the vintage trucks from the carnie thats coming into town soon.



CURSORS:

- I added a new ICON cursor system that will be the base framework for the ability to "use" items in the future. For now you can only "Use" the gas/fuel can when refueling the Golf cart. But in the future this will be how you will interact with "tools"and "objects" to perform more tasks and jobs to earn money. Earning loot the old fashioned way will be a big part of the coming survivor mode. It's not all fun and games when Uncle Phil's not greasing the pockets of ol'Islandville. Your going to have to get those hands dirty working odd jobs to earn your keep if you want to enjoy all the fun things the island has to offer.









BOTS:

- Added a bunch of NPC bots to the main areas of town and a couple other random areas throughout the island. The robots will get more and more interactive as EA development goes on. For now they are just cruising around doing some errands and testing their navigation systems.

- Added a few Character bots to the Main locations.
- Jerry @ Jerry's Gas and Go
- Barry @ Barry's Pawn Shop (With his lady friend money counting helper)
- Frankie @ Frankie's Quality Fireworks Stand (With his lady friend Rhonda and her kid)

- Added some bots to the bus to give it a little life when you are riding around town. In the future I might want to make them get on and off the bus and transport around town.... But for now the bots will remain in there main "areas".

- Added a bus Driver and made the front doors not open anymore as you cannot board the bus from there anyway. The front doors will be how the bots get on and off in the future. Prob should have made that a little more clear. lol.






VISUALS:

- Added some volumetric lighting to a bunch of the lights around the island. Mainly the flashlight, headlights on the cars and the Streetlights. As a kid I had to be home when the streetlights came on... So I spent a LOT of time staring at them. haha. Still adjusting these suckers. They can be pretty picky and will look overblown in some areas and not others. Again, Still tuning em.

- Changed a bunch of optimization and lighting settings for the outside world and gained quite a few frames per second. About another 10-15% increase all around. Also gained some frames inside all the buildings.

- Loading time should be a bit quicker as I am loading the audio a new way to help. This should help on some of the smaller GPUs.

- Added a new full moon with a "night light" sky for all the scaredy cats out there. It will give the open areas a little bit more light to see what you are doing but still remain a little spooky for the wooded and non lit areas. I also spiced up the campfires and tents with a little flicking realistic glow, volumetric lighting and some shadows.

- Added new simple water visuals to all the water surfaces with reflections and some blur effects for "underwater" cameras. I do not plan on adding any water physics (buoyancy) to any objects for now. you can just walk into the water for now and hold your breath for unlimited time... but don't get too used to that. ;)

- Teddy spruced up the stage show a little bit in the VIP Birthday area with some smoke machines and lasers plus a couple old folks reading the paper. The band has been doing well so they blew some coin on some stage equipment. Barry gave him a sweet deal on it.



OTHER:

- Audio Options menu will now update right away as it was not setting the audio from the previous round settings. Your settings should carry over from game to game now. Feel free to tune those peskie idiots out now. Very sorry for the confusion.


KNOWN ISSUES:
- Sometimes you can get stuck on the bus while exiting. Click the exit button twice as a workaround.
- MEGA Drop is still not completely redone. Will scam you out of some tickets every now and then from a timing issue.
_ You can still mess up the game by grabbing things out of the golf cart with the inventory button. For now try to make it a habit of removing them from the cart first and then putting them into your inventory.


SUMMARY:

That's about all for this update..... Now I am full steam ahead on the Carnival and the beta survivor mode. Stay tuned.


Thanks again for supporting The Coin Game. I can not thank you all enough for helping me create this game. I am very honored and excited to have this opportunity to build this adventure with all of you.

Kevin

Let me know what you think in the comments below and as always.... feel free to share!

Hello everyone,
I just wanted to give you some news on the progress of the"Pier Carnival" area. The Carnival has truly come to life in the past weekend. Thank you all for your support and inspiration as it really makes all the difference. As you are reading this, the video and photos are already old news & bare bones to what I have cooking. However, I like to stop and share with you all as the island unfolds.



Here is a quick video
https://youtu.be/MnE9Yv3u1GI



The new carnival will include roughly seven rides, five carnie games, two new food booths, a dozen new carnie inspired prizes & some fireworks of course. I got the new "ride ticket" system counting and working with the smartwatch and I have finished up some new icons and images for all the new prizes and goodies.

Last week I completed more bot characters, the carnie layout, framework for new games, optimized the outdoors and created food booths. Now, This week I am focusing on the on the bumper cars, other carnie rides and more sounds with a special guest DJ.

Thank you again and check back often for more news.

Kevin

I just thought I would take a few minutes to show all of you the next "area" coming to The Coin Game. A Traveling Carnival.

It is not yet complete but I have been working non stop on it for the last few weeks. I even worked right through my birthday.....lol. I am having so much fun building and reminiscing about all the old fun times I had as a kid at the local traveling carnie that would come to my small town.

As a youngster my family was always involved in the local Scouting programs and we would help cook and prepare all the food they would sell. This gave me as a young boy the full all access view of the carnival setting up and meeting all the traveling workers. Seeing all the shady rides and the workers scrambling to unfold them from a rusty old semi always interested me. The large game and beer tents would pop up all over a empty field and it was game on. But it wasn't until the night would fall and then the real magic would begin. Scrambling from game to game with your last 2 dollars under all the bright lights with friends to gather as many junk prizes as possible to take home and put in the trash in a month. Oh man, I am rambling but you can almost smell the elephant ears now.... I better get back to work.

I am still finishing up the physics and prize systems for the new carnie "game booths" and should be close to finished in about 2-3 weeks. The next update will literally DOUBLE the size of the current game and has a TON of new stuff coming. Im soooooo excited to show you all.

Thanks again for supporting The Coin Game. Ill see you all very soon on the Tilt-A-Whirl.

Kevin

NOTE:
Once this update is out I will be going back and completely redoing a few of the arcade machines and all of the leaderboards points systems prior to survival mode. I thought it was more important to get some of the new locations and features out before I go back and fix some stuff that will change in the future. I hope that makes sense. haha.

Update #005
Version: V0.942

DESCRIP: Mainly just fixing some bugs with this update and getting ready for the next content update.

- Changed the way all the machines count the tickets to stop the rolling of bonuses to the next game. It was fun while it lasted! haha. Il'l be testing a few more things before resetting the leaderboards.

- Added a new player rescue system that will keep track of the players last location and will teleport you if you get into trouble and need to be reset. This should help with getting stuck below the map. It basically will always be checking if there is good ground below you and if you are still inside a building.

- Fixed the lotto tickets that were showing your last winning amount on the screen even when you lost. Now it will show and encouraging comment to propel you into victory. Or something like that.

- Fixed an issue were your saved game would not show up without resetting the game. The saved game menus will now refresh when you save a game. That way it is there if you want to just save and restart were you were.

- Fixed the loud noises when resetting the game. There was a camera turning off and causing that. When there is no audio listener on an active camera it will just play all the sounds at once. Got it handled though. Move along... nothing to see here. Never happened.

- Fixed the loading of the golf cart on a uneven surface. Camera will now set it self up properly according the golf cart and not the ground angle. OOps.

- Fixed the Free Cam loading angle. It will not point toward the sky when you click C Key anymore.

- Golf cart now resets to the home house garage. It will be towed to the driveway for no charge in Birthday mode.

- Fixed the female Cheesy poof package disappearing when eating.

- Fixed the Free Cam Mode not going back into the bus if you were riding it.

Thanks for supporting The Coin Game and Ill see you in the next one.

Kevin