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Coin Coin Coin Coin

  • Kylaila
  • 08/04/2015 11:45 AM
  • 896 views
Piggy Bank is a very simple minigame - move your piggy bank to collect coins, avoid hammers.
It is cute and very simple. Sleep-inducing simple, but that's how minigames are supposed to work last I checked.

Sound design is simple .. although there is no background music, only a rhythmic cling of your money rushing in (which makes it so easy for me to get sleepy while playing it), and the occasional "too bad" sound.

The aesthetics are cute and very simple as well - you can identify easily what is where on the screen, as the background is a light blue with a little bit of white cutesy pictures of our piggy (we only see the head), coins and hammers.
With big fat colored coins and hammers falling through it.

Coins and hammers are easily recognizeable and speed up over time as you play this game. You may miss as many coins as you would like without any penalty - only the hammer of death is to be feared, so playing it safe is your best bet.

The only problem I have are the controls combined with the large hitboxes of the falling items.

You click and drag piggy around, which means you will have your left mouse button pushed throughout the entire playtime, making it very uncomfortable for me to play for longer periods of time. Furthermore, the speed at which your piggy moves is fairly slow - this is not a problem early on, but will very well become one later on.
The big hit boxes make it easier to net items, and also render the game over, so I can see it being crucial to the difficulty, but I cannot make out the exact border at which I will miss/hit an item.

I would have loved some key support instead of just mouse (although if it were to be made into a mobile game, I can see the idea behind it), and a little higher movement speed to make it through to the end.

It is a simple game. I do not play enough minigames to compare it exactly but I believe it has rooms to go with a smoother interface (draw speed) and a more comfortable gameplay.

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It can be played on phones through browser and touch input. BTW, since things speed up as time passes I personally think its better collect as many coins as you can early on :)

Anyways. Thanks for the review!

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