Share My Creation Lucky Coin Fruit Machine

Lucky Coin
Fruit Machine


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I'm delighted to announce the approval of my latest app,
a game based on the traditional arcade slot machine:


You start with one LUCKY COIN...

Amass a fortune* with skill and luck!

Pull the handle and hope for a win...

Get a nudge and take a chance!

Slide from left to see pay table


*fortune is in virtual coins​

 

[JordiCP]

I earned 172 virtual coins, so I was virtually rich . But the next time I tried the game I only had one!!

Some personal opinions that I think could improve the game.

• Save the coins that a user has before leaving the game, and retrieve them the next time he plays.
  
• Rewarded video ads as a way to get 3 (or whatever) coins when you don't have more. Also could be placed (as now) from time to time.
  
• This would imply that when there is only one coin left, if you don't win, your balance is 0 --> time to watch a rewarded video-ad
  
• UP-DOWN is good, but if you arrive to a position where you still have UP-DOWN movements left, the user should be given the option not to use them and take the money.

 

[MikeH]

Thanks Jordi.
These are all ideas Ive either thought of or plan to do for future versions. My marketing strategy is to upload a basic version first then keep updating it. That way I think it gets better visibility and users have a reason to keep it installed.

 

[MikeH]

I earned 172 virtual coins, so I was virtually rich . But the next time I tried the game I only had one!!

Some personal opinions that I think could improve the game.

• Save the coins that a user has before leaving the game, and retrieve them the next time he plays.
  
• Rewarded video ads as a way to get 3 (or whatever) coins when you don't have more. Also could be placed (as now) from time to time.
  
• This would imply that when there is only one coin left, if you don't win, your balance is 0 --> time to watch a rewarded video-ad
  
• UP-DOWN is good, but if you arrive to a position where you still have UP-DOWN movements left, the user should be given the option not to use them and take the money.

Update available today:
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Coins and sound setting automatically saved for next game
Improved graphics and internal optimisations
"Cash in" coins to reduce number of ads - hold coins to show menu
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I was thinking about rewarded videos as I was writing this game but for now will hang back until/if the game gets popular enough to withstand the hatred for ads

You can cash in your coins to make a longer delay between ads. This makes the coins actually worth something (ok, virtually worth something)

UP-DOWN (called "nudges") is deliberately set at a fixed number and is part of the game. This is something I'm going to develop (again, if it becomes popular enough). I may add a HOLD feature later but lets see how it goes first.

 

[andymc]

Hi,

just tried it, I like the clean easy to use interface.
But I do think it takes too long to stop spinning the wheels. A real fruit machine takes about five seconds a spin, this game takes much longer.
Also, is there anyway to animate the spins? Is this using any graphics library?

 

[MikeH]

Hi,

just tried it, I like the clean easy to use interface.
But I do think it takes too long to stop spinning the wheels. A real fruit machine takes about five seconds a spin, this game takes much longer.
Also, is there anyway to animate the spins? Is this using any graphics library?

You can do different speed/duration spins depending how much you swing on the handle. Try tapping higher up for a shorter spin.

How do you mean "animate the spins"? Just using core lib (and admob).

 

[andymc]

I mean the fruits don't move, they just change to different fruits, so you don't get a true feeling of the spinning being animated.

 

[MikeH]

My game is based on a traditional fruit machine that has mechanical spinning reels rather than the modern ones with a screen
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=fruit machine&safe=active&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjA1Zay2sfWAhULAcAKHQu_ByQQsAQIPA&biw=1920&bih=960

 

[LucaMs]

My game is based on a traditional fruit machine

I LOVE "the" old slot machine, its "standard" images; and I hate all new and too many slots, with hundred rows-columns and special effects. Maybe because I'm ALMOST old too .

But I HAVE TO SAY that you should resize the images better, Mike.

 

[LucaMs]

"Modern slots2 do not give the same emotion as the old 777 or "bar-bar-bar", I think