Would you be interested in collecting some new recipes?
https://youtu.be/BBPgc_HR3TU

• 5 areas with 25 levels total
  
• familiar and new enemies and traps
  
• unlimited continues for a casual experience
  
• new recipes to collect
  
• TBA
  
  (follow the dev page or discord[discord.gg] to be the first to know, store page coming later)

Goblin and Coins II, a direct sequel to the Goblin and Coins, is planned to release on Steam in April of 2023. The game will feature 25 handcrafted story levels, 5 boss battles, 5 secret/bonus levels and the ability to regain lives/continues when all are lost. The focus is on bringing features gamers requested after enjoying the first game.

https://youtu.be/u-DVAzLCTy0

Run and jump through a new adventure, explore the world, collect coins, unlock upgrades, revisit levels to find secrets and face enemies old and new.

What's new?

• Improved graphics, extended mechanics and simple puzzles
  
• Create your own difficulty by getting or ignoring the upgrades
  
• Revisit levels, find secrets, optional easier start for the new players
  
• No game over - there's a secret way to regain your lost lives...
  
• It Already supports English, Serbian, Turkish, Brazilian Portuguese and Russian, with more languages coming in the future.

Click here to follow and wishlist now.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/694990/Goblin_and_Coins_II/

Goblin and Coins II will participate in the NEXT FEST June '22 with a DEMO for you to try out and hopefully have fun.

What to expect in the DEMO:

• English and Serbian language only. More to come in the full release.
  
• Only the Windows build available for now, Linux/SteamDeck dedicated build coming later (you can try and use Proton though, should work perfectly).
  
• All settings and options available, be sure to tune it to your liking before playing.
  
• Available levels: Midnight raid, Sunny beach, Fisherman's village, Dark mines, Downhill, Cpt. Greenbeard boss fight, Snowy pass, Ice caves (+ the underground, a special level you only get to see after you lose all lives/continues). These are the initial levels and are on the easy side.
  
• Quarter of the world map, including store/trader (ingame coins exchanged for upgrades, no mtx!)
  
• Upgrade 2 (double jump) is purchasable for free (available sum will go into debt now, will cost 100 coins later. I recommend getting the 4th life first, so you can have both)
  
• Upgrade 4 (shrinky in a blinky) works automatically without a purchase (will cost 200 coins later, enables using crawlspaces)

The Steam NEXT FEST June '22 edition will run from June 13th to 20th, so be sure to download and try the demo before the time runs out.

If you have any comments and want to provide feedback after playing the DEMO you can visit the forums and write your thoughts there (you can also press F1 in game to jump there instantly).

There's an unofficial confirmation that Goblin and Coins works out of the box on SteamDeck. Here's a picture proof:

We're all waiting for Valve to test and sort all the 60.000+ games on Steam for SteamDeck compatibility. With that amount of material to go through, it's understandable that Goblin and Coins, being a very small indie game, won't be a priority for a while, and that's okay (there's ~1300 games rated so far).

But while we wait for the official rating, there's many 3rd parties that have access to SteamDeck and with the lifting of embargos and the official release of the handheld, it's now possible to simply have the game tested - not as throuough as Valve's doing it and certainly not with an official verified/playable rating yet - but enough to know there's a 2D platformer you can run on your brand new handheld when that bean soup starts playing it's tune.

Source for the pic and the test: LiamD from http://GamingOnLinux.com . It's an amazing website for all gaming news and reviews related to gaming on GNU/Linux, check it out.

2nd part of this year's playtest for Goblin and Coins II is LIVE right here on Steam for a limited time, and you have an opportunity to jump right in, try the game for yourself (well, what there is of it for now, it's still in development of course) and maybe even report your feedback to the author. Let your opinion be heard! More info here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/694990/view/3079893382671919013

The first ever public playtest for Goblin and Coins II will happen between May 15th and 30th of this year right here on Steam. It's completely free for you to participate, just request access at any time during this period and you'll get notified when you can download and test the early build of the game.

More info on what is available in the current build for you to see, try out and provide feedback, how to do it, where to write of your experience and all of that cam be found if you click here.

Goblin and Coins II has been in development since late 2017. Right now there's an alpha build being tested with tutorial/intro level, map, trader, "the underground" and 4 various regular levels. Watch this short video to see how GnC2 is different from GnC1, with a focus on caves/mines in the 2nd half of the video.

If you want to follow GnC2 progress, please visit the store page and click wishlist and follow now.

I've pushed a minor change that should in theory address the slowdowns that were happening on windows platform, without the need for players to use dx11 beta build.

In my tests it works and fps doesn't drop to 24 with everything dragging around slowly, but this was a wild run so you'll have to test for yourself if the game is sticking close to 30fps with gameplay simply flying.

Ever since Windows 10 v.1703 (Creators Update) the game (and many other titles) had issues with the fullscreen mode. At first it was just a black/white screen (easily mitigated with a compatibility mode), which was sort of fixed with the release of Win10FCU (1709) and KB4048955, but for some reason ever since game runs sluggish and under 30 fps even if it worked perfectly fine before... and runs fine on older versions of Windows even today.

It's playable, and gamers who aren't using frame counters might not even notice, but everything just feels way too slower than intended on random occasions. I've finally decided to try making this experimental DX11 build available, as it should work perfectly fine on any modern computer able to run DirectX 11. The reason I didn't do it earlier is because I wanted to keep backward compatibility with older computers and Windows 7. Using it as a separate build will keep that, while providing normal gameplay and experience to everyone else.

Simply right click the game title in the library, select "properties" and in the Betas tab select "DX11 build" from the dropdown menu. You don't need a password or anything.

This game is more than 4 years old and GnC2 is in advanced stage of development, so I can't really promise anything, but I do have some ideas on potentially updating all builds to DX11 and making it default if this proves as a good solution. So if you decide to try it, please let me know if there's any bugs or how it ran compared to the default build for you.

PLEASE NOTE: Main branch was later updated as well so there should be no slowdowns even on DX9. You can still try DX11 branch but it's not necessary.