Hello Youtubers!

We're pleased to announce 3 updated languages for Youtubers Life: Turkish, Polish and Chinese official translations join our beloved game to allow more fans to enjoy the life of a real Youtuber, along with some minor fixes.

Regards,

The U-Play Online Team

Dear players,

First of all, many thanks to everyone who took part in the 1.4 open beta test, your reports were critical to this build's success.

This is a much-improved version over 1.3. Hope you enjoy playing it as much as we enjoyed developing it!

Here are the details:

Story

• The ticket cost for the first trade fair in the Gaming Channel has been reduced.
  
• The waiting times for several events have been reduced.
  
• The first four houses moving requisites have been changed.

Economy

• Videos earn more money from the shared flat onwards.
  
• PC components' price has been reduced between 5% and 45%.
  
• Cosmetic items' price has been reduced between 25% and 40%.
  
• The Cooking Channel utensil price has been adjusted to make them more accessible.
  
• Sleep and hunger expense when working has been reduced.
  
• Food has been rebalanced to improve its cost/reward ratio.
  
• Working now pays better.

Card game

• Cards are now obtained through charisma points, a new currency which is earned through courses and missions.
  
• Card unlock levels have been revised.
  
• Card situational bonus has been re-balanced.

Pipper (social network)

• Writing a Pipp now takes half as long.
  
• Pipp effect has been increased by 25%.

Gaming Channel

• Video games and console releases have been modified to follow a regular schedule.

Other

• PC durability has been greatly increased.
  
• Music and Cooking skill ceiling have been increased depending on the house to reduce impact on gameplay.

Gameplay improvements

• Collaborators' status doesn't show over your character's bars. It made everything very confusing, leading players to believe that sleep and hunger were bugged.
  
• Mom's house gameplay experience has been improved adding new objectives.
  
• U-Tube videos are now monetized from 500 subs onwards.
  
• The test is now a monthly mission while at mom's house. If you fail three times, it's game over.
  
• The comment moderation has been improved and now displays your discoveries in real time.
  
• The whole collaborator system has been redesigned to add new management features. There's now a new hiring process and there's a motivation variable that will influence their performance through the gameplay.
  
• A new currency has been introduced: Charisma points. They can be used to unlock cards and obtained through missions and courses.
  
• Mission panel has been improved. New weekly missions and clearer rewards. New visual feedback to differentiate missions.
  
• You can now find more assignments at events, given by NPCs, that will let you earn good money.
  
• Notifications have been improved and de-cluttered.
  
• Computers can now be used while they're uploading a video.
  
• There's a new window detailing gamepad and keyboard/mouse keys.

Locations

• Gaming trade shows and cinema hall have been redesigned.
  
• Lightning has been improved all around.

Fixed issues

Just for your info, we've treated about 500 (700 now!) issues since we released 1.3 until today. Some of the most important are:

• Finally, we got a historic one: sometimes Network events stopped coming. FIXED!
  
• Phone presentation sometimes failed.
  
• Game froze on loading screen.
  
• Course window blocked progress when a collaborator was selected.
  
• Social bar dropped to 0 sometimes.
  
• GUI translation errors (Spanish text).
  
• Multiple errors in the Pipper section.
  
• Creating live shows and restaurant gigs blocked the game sometimes.
  
• Several card game issues.

Oh... and here's a teaser for what's in the making. Stay tuned for more news!



Enjoy!
The U-Play Online Team

EDIT: We're working on a new Chinese translation, as well as Polish and Turkish. We still can't say when they'll be available, though.

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Participating couldn't be easier.

• CREATE a short video-review about Youtubers Life OMG (Max. 3 mins).
• Be creative, unexpected, original… Be you(tube)rself!
  
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The most original video will be declared the absolute winner!

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Good luck!

Players,

How's the start for 2019 been? all good? we hope so :).

We've been hard at work since we released 1.3, collecting all your feedback and reports and, finally, 1.4 is ready to be tested by the players. For now, on PC only.

To join the beta, all you need to do is right-click Youtubers Life in your game library on Steam, select Properties and, in the BETAS tab, chose "beta - Public beta" from the drop-down menu.

Here are the details:

Changes from v1.3

• Collaborators' status doesn't show over your character's bars. It made everything very confusing, leading players to believe that sleep and hunger were bugged.
  
• Improved mom's house experience: U-Tube is monetized earlier and exams are a monthly mission.
  
• Improved comment moderation feedback.
  
• Improved collaborator system. New contracts.
  
• Introduced charisma points.
  
• Improved mission panel.
  
• Redesigned gaming convention venues.
  
• PCs can now be used while uploading videos.
  
• New control mapping screen.
  
• Improved lightning for all system configurations.

Fixed issues
Just for your info, we've treated about 500 issues since we released 1.3 until today. Some of the most important are:

• Game froze on loading screen.
  
• Course window blocked progress when a collaborator was selected.
  
• Social bar dropped to 0 sometimes.
  
• GUI translation errors (Spanish text).
  
• Multiple errors in the Pipper section.
  
• Creating live shows and restaurant gigs blocked the game sometimes.
  
• Several card game issues.

Known issues

Please, don't report these issues, we're working on them already and will be fixed when the beta build is updated.

• Some mission progress can be lost when loading a saved game.
  
• Sometimes, your cooking skills are not correctly displayed on a recorded video summary.
  
• There's a possibility of the game blocking up during the "Game Over" screen when using a gamepad.
  
• Some companies' level 1 rewards have issues.
  
• There's an issue when going to the cinema during a tutorial.

Please, report any 1.4 issue in the beta forum.

Also, our friends at Raiser Games are running a contest where you can win an amazing Youtuber kit. Read more info here



Good luck!

Happy youtubing.

The U-Play Online Team

Players!

Today's the day! We're very excited to announce the 1.3 update for Youtubers Life, the biggest one to date since the game launched back in May 2016.

A huge thank you to all our fans who've helped these past two weeks by trying the open beta and reporting any issue you've found. It's been a great test.

Patch Notes:

• New user interface, featuring clearer notifications and new need bars.
  
• Gamepad compatibility. Finally! Play lying on the couch :P
  
• Fan desires: Interact on social networks in a meaningful way with your fans.
  
• Revamped GUI for the card game. New card designs.
  
• New quest system: Clear markings on prize and quest-giving NPC. New quest tracker.
  
• Revamped visual effects.
  
• General performance improvement.

Or watch the feature spotlight video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sU0vjXx324
As always, you're very welcome to join our discussion forum

Thank you all for your support. It's amazing.

See you soon.

Bests,

The U-Play Online Team.

Dear Youtubers,

December is almost here and the amazing OMG Update has completed our internal test phase and we feel it's ready for you, our beloved community, to give it a shot and tell us what you think about it.

To join the beta, all you need to do is right-click Youtubers Life in your game library on Steam, select Properties and, in the BETAS tab, chose "beta - Public beta" from the drop-down menu.

These are the main new features:

• New user interface, featuring clearer notifications and new need bars.
  
• Gamepad compatibility. Finally! Play lying on the couch :P
  
• Fan desires: Interact on social networks in a meaningful way with your fans.
  
• Revamped GUI for the card game. New card designs.
  
• New quest system: Clear markings on prize and quest-giving NPC. New quest tracker.
  
• Revamped visual effects.
  
• General performance improvement.

These are the main features that you'll find in this ambitious update. Hope you enjoy and help us test them out.
Please, report anything you find or just tell us what you think about the update in the following Beta Discussion forum:

As always, all opinions and points of view are welcome. Don't be shy!

Enjoy Youtubers Life.

Bests,

The U-Play Online Team

Dear players,

Finally! We have a date! The new awesome update for Youtubers Life will be available soon and you'll be able to enjoy all the improvements and new features on the game we all love.

Stay tuned, we'll be unveiling more details the following weeks.

The U-Play Online Team

Dear Youtubers,

Hello! Long time no see.

After a much-needed break from developing Youtubers Life, we are getting ready to show some love to our beloved offspring again.

We understand it’s very difficult to accurately convey this feeling, but had we kept working on this project, it would’ve been impossible to give our best. Now, we believe it ’s time to give all our fans what you deserve.

Youtubers Life is being deeply reworked. The Game Design and Programming teams are working together to shape and polish your favourite features, improve the ones that troubled you the most and even remove tedious tasks. We’ve been gathering constructive feedback from your comments, reviews and Steam Community Posts, and this is the blueprint for the elements that will be added and/or reworked:

• GUI will be revamped. Lots of cosmetic and functional improvements
  
• New redesigned fancy cards, and new mechanics for the cards game
  
• Improved deeper subs morale system that adds social network interactions and public presence in events to the formula
  
• New social network interaction, deeper and more realistic social network to communicate with your followers
  
• NPC Quest givers, now you can get new missions and assignments in events while interacting with people
  
• Network system rework: new assignment market, improved network events and changes in requirements
  
• Game re-balance, moving houses objectives will be changed
  
• New video comments system, now you can spend some time answering the comments in your videos and getting some clues about what your followers like most
  
• Besides mouse control you will be able to play the game with gamepad controls, so you can play it while laying on the couch
  
• Commission video assignments to collaborators, a convenient mini-feature to speed up workflow
  
• We’ve added a new quest log screen to get more info about it
  
• General usability improvements

Some examples of our work in progress:







These are the main features on the table, but it’s still an alive project and there might be more changes added on the fly if we feel that it’s needed. We’ll keep you updated on what’s going on.

When?
Now, on dates: you know we’re an indie studio so speed is not on our side. We know you’ve shown infinite patience, but in order to do this the right way, we can’t rush it! Expect this update by end of 2018, but never before it’s ready and we’re completely satisfied with what we’ve got.

But there is more…

There’s a new channel coming!
The three existing channels will get a new addition. More info on the all-new fourth channel very soon, as we’re currently shaping its design. The new channel follows a different schedule and it will be released after the update is out and stable.

Price?
We said update! This will definitely be free content for all the owners of Youtubers Life

Remember to join our Community Hub to discuss this update and what you expect or wish to see on it: https://steamcommunity.com/app/428690/discussions/


A big thank you,

The U-Play Online Team

Dear Players,

Here are your #YachtChallenge winners!

Congratulations to Marissi, Lucas, Crazy Neith, Baptippo and MaaRiia... You're now part of Youtubers Life forever!
Go find the new characters in-game and talk to them, they'll surely have something interesting to say!

The wardrobe
We have updated the tooltip to clearly state which clothes you should be wearing to each event. Let us know how you're finding the new system behaviour.

Also, as always, there were other minor bug fixes that should make the game more and more enjoyable.

Kind regards,

The U-Play Online Team.

Dear Players,

Here are your #YachtChallenge winners!

Congratulations to Marissi, Lucas, Crazy Neith, Baptippo and MaaRiia... You're now part of Youtubers Life forever!
Go find the new characters in-game and talk to them, they'll surely have something interesting to say!

The wardrobe
We have updated the tooltip to clearly state which clothes you should be wearing to each event. Let us know how you're finding the new system behaviour.

Also, as always, there were other minor bug fixes that should make the game more and more enjoyable.

Kind regards,

The U-Play Online Team.