The game Coin Runner is a fun, easy to learn, arcade style game that depends mainly on the player’s own skill. The first area where the player must be skilled is with the bombs. The bombs are thrown up from the bottom of the screen and gravity causes them to fall back down. The player must try to avoid clicking on the bombs, otherwise they will have a point penalty. The second area where the player must be skilled is with the coins. Like the bombs, the coins are thrown up from the bottom of the screen and gravity causes them to fall back down and off of the screen. To do well in this area of the game the player must have a good eye and good reflexes. They must be very quick to spot and click the coins on the screen before they fall. Two things are affected by the player’s ability to click on the coins before they disappear: the number of lives the player has and the score. The player has a limited number of lives available. If the player misses a coin and it falls off the screen they lose a life. Once the player loses all of their lives, the game ends. If the player is able to click on the coin before it falls, it is removed from the screen and the player’s score increases. The goal of the game is to click on the coins and gain as many points as possible before the game ends.
Clicking the coins may be a difficult thing to do due to the small size of the coins, as it is easy to miss clicking on them. It may also be difficult if the coins overlap with a bomb. If the coin and bomb overlap, the player can risk clicking the bomb and lower their score or they can wait and risk missing the coin entirely. I found this an interesting part of the game as I was forced to make a split second decision on whether I would risk lowering my score or my number of lives. Another reason it may be difficult to click on all the coins is due to timing of when new bombs and coins are thrown up onto the screen. It is possible if the player is not quick about clicking the coins that they may have coins from a previous round of bombs and coins on the screen when a new round appears. This causes more coins to be on the screen than the player may be able to handle.
The difficulty of this game also depends on what the player uses to play this game. When I first played Coin Runner I did not have my computer mouse with me and used my laptop’s trackpad instead. Like the game description suggested, this added a whole new level of difficulty. Using the laptop trackpad I had to work a lot harder just to move the pointer to where I wanted it to go and I had to try harder to be able to click on the coins before they fell. Until I was able to use an actual mouse, I died very quickly every time I played. Once I got a chance to use my computer mouse it was a lot easier and I was able to last longer.