Youtubers Life News

Dear players,

We promised to support Linux once Youtubers Life got out of Early Access and here it is! Our penguin-OS fans can enjoy Youtubers Life too.

Input bug fix
Those of you who have been following this past 9 months of development, know that we've had a bug where joysticks, steering wheels, racing pedals, etc. messed up with Youtubers Life input commands and the game picked up the wrong clicks from the mouse.
We need your help, though, so if you've experienced this issue in the past and worked around it by unplugging those input peripherals when playing Youtubers Life, please try again and write some feedback in the bug reporting forum:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/428690/discussions/7/

As always, thanks for helping making Youtubers Life a great game!

Current development
At the moment we're working on increasing the supported range of resolutions but we're running into some issues, that's why it didn't get included in this update.
We'll try to bring support for ultrawide setups in the near future. Keep tuned for more news.

Happy gaming!

Kind regards,
The U-Play Online Team

Dear players,

Yesterday we launched Youtubers Life, a game which had been in Early Access since last May the 18th. First of all, thanks again to all our Early Access supporters, this has been a dream come true and we couldn’t have done this without you.
Thank you too for the wonderful reception and the congratulations, they mean the world to us. We read all the reviews and comments, positive and negative, and we feel that we need to further explain some key points and our future development roadmap

Why did we get Youtubers Life out of Early Access?
Getting out of EA for us means that we’re happy with the state of the game as it is right now. Since it’s EA launch, we’ve gotten Youtubers Life to levels of stability and game maturity that we feel are worth calling Youtubers Life a full game.
Fully releasing the game also has other implications. It increases diffusion: there are many media outlets that don’t review Early Access games, for example, and lots of people are not keen on purchasing EA titles.

Other platforms
We’ve always wanted to release Youtubers Life on every available platform. Steam has been a phenomenal springboard and, if you’ve stuck around the forums during this last 9 months, we’ve always relied on community input to improve the game, having a constant two-way communication with our player base. Look at the last update [0.9.3], for example, the most popular requests condensed in a User Experience improvement that’s brought new life to the game.
The console versions are past due time, they deserve to enjoy Youtubers Life too, but we needed the stability of a full release-worthy game in order to commit to finish development for consoles and other platforms.

Further development
Coming out of Early Access doesn’t mean we’ve stopped developing Youtubers Life. In fact, console development will bring controller support and any new feature we implement to the Steam version too.
The core game is cross-platform. This means that we’ll continue improving the game as we work on other versions too.
More content will come your way, although not in the short term. Our will is to develop the initially thought channels as free DLCs, and we’ve got other exciting ideas for the future too.
We’d like you to see Youtubers Life Full Release launch as a kid that just turned 18: it’s reached maturity, but its real life has just begun. The best is yet to come!

The impact of the Music and Cooking Channels
The decision to postpone new channel development for the moment being relies on several factors

• The launch of the new channels didn’t improve the user experience as much as we’d hoped. Studying player statistics we can see that more than half of the new games that start everyday belong to the gaming channel.
  
• We want to take our time to bring an exciting new channel that will be meaningful enough, and powerful as a standalone and significant slice of Youtubers Life. We’d never satisfied releasing sub-par content.
  

TL;DR
We understand that every decision comes with its pros and cons, but we’re really happy with what we’ve accomplished with Youtubers Life and what will come in the future. This game’s roadmap is very alive and its development will go on. The Full Release is just another milestone for us!
We won’t fail the community, we’re devoted to making the best tycoon we’re capable of. We’re not Arrou after all!

Sincerely,

The U-Play Online Team

PS: As always, you’re very welcome to come visit the discussion forum:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/428690/discussions/

Youtubers Life has left Early Access and is now available on Steam!

Youtubers Life is the ultimate life simulation/tycoon videogame in which you can become the world’s greatest video blogger in history. Edit videos, expand the amount of fans and turn yourself into a wealthy fellow. Record gameplay sessions, buy new and classic consoles, keep an eye on daily tasks, and socialize yourself to increase your popularity while you have to deal with fans, friends, family and time management!

Dear Players,

The day has come.
You've been waiting for this moment since May the 18th, we've all been. Youtubers Life is coming out of Early Access today!

All our hard work, our love, laughs, sweat and tears have been put together and this wonderful game is what we've got to show.
It's been a long path, together with all of you, our Early Access supporters, who have helped bring this project to life.

Special thanks to all of you who believed in Youtubers Life from the start, to all the translation teams and our beta testers.
We also want to thank all the players who took the time to write a review, on Steam or anywhere else, for spreading the word.

Last but not least, a big thank you to the Valve team who helped us navigate the turbulent waters of an Early Access project. We're looking forward to keeping working with everyone at Valve.

We at U-Play Online hope you enjoy Youtubers Life now that it has become a full game in its own right!
We'll keep supporting the game and hope that you keep coming to the forums. We love to hear your opinions and bug reports: Youtubers Life wouldn't have become the great game we're launching today without your help /bow.
You can read more about further development here:
http://steamcommunity.com/games/428690/announcements/detail/261608645325406076

Enjoy Youtubers Life!

Kind regards,
The U-Play Online Team

PS: Remember to use the forums for any doubt, question or suggestion, we read everything. We can't answer the comments on this news section!

Dear Mac players,

Don't think we forgot about you! Here's your fix of Youtubers Life.

Find info on the update here:

http://steamcommunity.com/games/428690/announcements/detail/276243441580343003

Kind regards,
The U-Play Online Team.