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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. 
The Winter Sale will run from today until Thursday January 2nd, so get your mitts on this sweet deal! 
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 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!
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.
Update #029 
- 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. 
- 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. 
WATERPARK:
To ride the Lazy River just head into the entrance and click on the single yellow innertube that is at the edge of the Lazy River under the awning. You will be loaded automagically. You can rotate the tube by paddling with your hands left and right. Nice and lazy... Just like its supposed to be. Let the waterfalls splash off your forehead as you plan your next payday at the pawn shop. You will auto exit at about the same location after completing a full "lap". Its actually very relaxing. haha. 
To ride the two waterslides just walk to the top of the stairs and you will see 4 tubes at the top. Two on the right and two on the left. Click on one of them to choose right or left side. Single or double tube. Single tube is just you alone on a tube and double is when you go plummeting with a bot friend in a two seat tube. 
You can exit any "ride" at the waterpark by hitting the E Key (Or exit button with a controller).
The Wave pool has a simple physics system on it that will "surf" you up to the beach if you are in the waves "pocket". It is still a WIP and will change to be a little more advanced in the future. Currently the floating bots are animated but I really want to be able to interact more with them in the future but for now I wanted them in the mix bobbing around. They look pretty happy to me. 
You will notice that there is a Dunk Tank at the front of Lenny's Waterpark. Barrys is currently collecting a donation for the kids. Its 3 bucks a shot to try to dunk him in a pool of Mineral Oil. (water will make him rust). If you dunk him... his helper will get you a "nice" prize for participating. So it could pay off or it couldnt. You never know with my man Barry. But its for the kids. Right?
CINEMA:
Loyd and Evan are great employees at the cinema and always keep the place looking sharp. 
TO watch a movie from your hard drive. Place an .Mp4 video in your Documents\devotid\TCG_Videos folder. For now it will only play the first video in the folder. In the future you can watch back to back movies but for now one is the limit at a time. You may need to create the "TCG_Videos" folder if you have not already. Once the file is in place... you can just purchase one "indie film" spot from the theater kiosk and the countdown on the wall next to the pricing will start. Take your seat and the movie will start automatically. 
To choose a seat just stand in front of it and click on it. Hit the Exit button (E Key) to stand up. Its pretty simple. 
I am still making a short film for the "Feature Film" at the theater but it is not done yet. Turns out to be a 1000x harder than I thought to make a small short movie. I will add it to a future update. It will work about the same as the Indie films.
I just had to add one of theses... so I talked Jerry into getting a Coin Drop game. It was pretty tough to get it right with a lower frame rate of the mall. It took some grinding on optimizing of the mall to get it to work. I think I spent about 2 full weeks on just the "feel" of the game. Its such a simple thing in real life but can be so challenging to model in a game and make it feel right. I am glad I did it though as the game is really fun.
Thank you again for the support and dont forget to leave us a good review if you like the game. It makes a big difference for an indie dev.
I am currently finishing up a "feature film" starring Popcorn Pete and a bunch of the Islandville characters that you can watch for about $5.50. It has been fun making it and challenging myself to do something that I have never even tried before. There is just so much in "film making" that I have been getting a little lost in it. haha. I still have a bit to go with audio and other little things like silly rolling credits at the end and a couple funny commercials for the concession stand. I may even make an AMA from Gary about the dangers of tanning beds.
When complete, the movie theater will also have the ability to watch .mp4 movies from your local hard drive. Maybe you have a movie you always wanted to watch at the theater... now you will be able too! 
All of the 80 seats spots will be available to sit anywhere you like... unless it is occupied by a bot or their family. Then you will have to pick another one. Hopefully a bot doesnt come and sit in front of you and talk the whole time.... well I guess you can move to a new spot. But how rude huh? You might even see Gary and Nanny Bot there. They have been known to sneak away and catch a matinee every now and then.
I have been working on making the island feel more alive and having other bots in the theater causing small interruptions will def add to the movie going experience. 
and a couple extra future location teaser pics:
and last....Yes. I am still working on Multiplayer. haha.
May 20th 2023
This first stage of this Islandville Mall includes the new Arcade Castle, a food court with four eatery locations, Spunkies Prize Store, a shady public restroom hangout area complete with lotto scratchers and smooth public radio pumping 24/7 throughout the air waves. The movie theater and a couple more stores will come later in development.
The new arcade is called "Arcade Castle". It is complete with many of Islandvilles most popular games and a few new ones. Just like the other arcades on the island, there is a free money machine for Birthday mode and plenty of great prizes to win. As always the arcade is packed with little tykes going bonkers. I hope you enjoy. 
The Arcade is themed after a local mall arcade I went to as a youngster. It went out of business many years ago but I hope this will let it live on for all of us to enjoy. 
The new arcade also features a fun ZolBot fortune teller machine. If you are skilled enough to get the coin in ol'ZolBot's mouth, he will drop you a collector card. Once you collect all four color cards you can see the entire map in your tree house by placing them on the map. You may be able to find some goodies if you can read the map and locate some loot boxes. There is now a light always on in the tree house. That way you can see and dont get scared out in the woods. ;)
The newest coin pusher at Arcade Castle in the mall is a marble style of "coin pusher". It has two different sizes of marbles. The smaller white "Ghost" balls and orange "Pumpkin" scoring balls.
If you are so lucky as to be in the Pumpkin Party mode (30 Seconds) you will score even more free ghost balls or even more free tickets (Depending on which side of the lights activated the Pumpkin Party). But the best part of the Pumpkin Party mode is that when you drop the Orange Pumpkin balls off the edge (These are won by hitting the orange middle trap on the gameboard) you have a chance to win the large Jackpots on the right side bonus wheel. Once the Pumpkin Party timer runs out you can no longer win the Jackpots with the right side spinning wheel and must re-light all the center gameboard traps again to enter the bonus mode. You can still score big tickets with the orange balls on the right side spinner during non Pumpkin Party time but you can ONLY win the jackpot during Pumpkin Party time. So be sure to save some ghost balls to drop during the bonus round that will push the orange balls over during the Pumpkin Party bonus. 
Up next is a machine that has been requested by the community for a while now and I am glad to finally get it completed. It may need a little tweaking, but its pretty realistic the way that it is. 
Grab a hot pie at Pirate Pizza:
Sip an ice cold lemon yellow drink from Lemonista
Islandtime Sweets Company is here for that sweet tooth. Good for energy. Not so good for health.
Jerry Gourmet Sammies are expensive but filling
A cool hip store that takes cash for prizes instead of tickets. Hey not everyone is good at games and can earn enough for that one prize they covet. This way you can simply use cash to get prizes instead of grinding on the ticket hustle. 
I built a new banking system for some "bigger" and "different" purchases that are coming to Survivor mode. ;) The bank is called Islandville Credit Union and is conveniently located all over the island with walk up ATMs. This is a different money account from the Players Club Card/Wallet that you currently have on you. This is now another separate way to pay for things that dont accept the players card. I will explain below.
To deposit money into your savings account simply insert your card into one of the ATM machines around the island and choose how much to deposit or withdrawal. Its pretty simple. You can see the account balance on the game screen (Little Locked Chest looking Gray Icon) and also on your watch menu. Being the classy Uncle that Phil is he started you out with $10 smackeroos in there to save towards programming bots or to withdrawal and waste on games. its your call. For now the ATMs are located next to the Islandville Market, in front of the UFO Arcade and inside the new Islandville Mall.
Programmable bots are something that Uncle Phil thought you could use to make the survival day a little easier. Who wouldnt want a bot friend that will work for peanuts? Now there are a couple bots around the island that do just that. They will have a small yellow button on their lower backs. When you approach a programmable bot they will stop moving like normal and then you can click on them to grab them and throw them around... if that is your thing. But if you click the button again you will notice the mouse cursor change from the grab to the interact cursor. Their outer case open up and a numerical keyboard will pop up on screen. If you have enough money in your savings account you can then input 4 digit codes to program these old school bots. For now each bot only has one program to run but more jobs and functions will come later in development.
Stinky Jimmy is a Islandville OG. He landed day one on the maiden voyage with Uncle Phil, Gary and One Eyed Billy. Duder was born with a shovel in his hand. He is not afraid of hard work and it shows on his rough and dented composite laminated shell. Dont let the flies around him fool ya... he is never stagnant. Catch him behind the Islandville Market in his "office". He is ready to be programmed to work. Currently Stinky Jimmy is available to program/hire for a "Dumpster Junking route". This entails Mr Jimmy checking all the local dumpsters around town in one route. He will return the found items behind his office dumpster for you when he has collected them all. Remember Jimmy is old school and only accepts bank transfers... so you must have the fee he is asking in your Islandville Credit Union Account or the 4 digit program will fail. Since Jimmy is an absolute junking pro, he gets deep into the boxes and bags hidden in the corners and finds the good loot you didnt know was there. That means he leaves plenty of dumpster items untouched for you the player to find later when you need them most. So go say hi to Jimmy today and put him to work! Uncle Phil's orders. 
Scoop is another early version bot that Uncle Phil built shortly after arriving on the island. He is a young whippersnapper with go get em attitude just like Uncle Phil was in his youth. Ready to earn an honest dollar by rolling up his scout uniform and get things completed. He is found by the news stand. His only job so far is to complete one route of delivering papers. He will pay you all the money and rubber bands that you would normally get by doing it yourself when completed. He is so honest he doesnt even skim off the top. You can find his Scout Troop sponsored flyer with codes and prices displayed for programming on the News stand wall by the delivery van.
You can identify the current running program by the small LED on the backs of the programmable bots. below are the colors of identification. The programmable bots will also have their corresponding work hats on when on a task or being hired. When they are available for hire they will not have a hat on.
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