YouTuber Cyprien Releases New Mobile Game

With 13.8 million subscribers and over 2.5 billion views, Cyprien Iov is one of the most influential French YouTubers. If he is best known for his humorous videos, he has also pursued in recent years other projects, such as the animation of television shows, the writing of comics, or the making of short films. On his channel, the videographer announces this time the launch of a mobile game called Make More Views , available since yesterday on Android and iOS.

Developed in collaboration with the La Gamerie studio, this application allows players to play as a YouTuber whose objective is to accumulate as many subscribers as possible by making numerous videos. To this end, the user will have to choose from the start between three channel themes: video games, science or lifestyle, which will plunge him into different stories, marked by encounters with "enemies", "allies" and "a mentor". He will then have a large number of options to customize his avatar and his apartment. " Usually, games like this are fairly light in terms of history. We wanted something really rich and generous! ", Explains Jérémy Faivre, technical director of La Gamerie and childhood friend of Cyprien. .

Integrated micropayments

Concretely, Make More Views follows the model of incremental games. Also called "clicker games" or "idle games", their mechanics consist of simple actions with limited interaction. Thus, if the application unveiled by Cyprien plans to integrate mini-games " so that the player is never bored ", the main action is to click frantically on the screen to speed up the production of a YouTube video . If the player decides not to click or quit the game, the video will play on its own, but take longer. “ Basically you can play like crazy all day or just a little every now and then, ” the videographer sums up in his presentation video. Although the entire game is available for free, the user will also be able to watch advertisements or make in-app purchases to obtain additional accessories or release videos more quickly.

According to data from analysts at AppAnnie, Make More Views yesterday rose to the number one place of the most downloaded applications on the App Store in France. On Twitter, several Internet users have already shared their enthusiasm, some congratulating Cyprien, others admitting to themselves " already addicted ". The application will thus perhaps surpass the success of Nope Quiz , the first mobile game from the videographer and studio La Gamerie, released in 2017, which has reached more than 4 million downloads worldwide to date. “ We will do everything to develop Make More Views on a massive scale internationally, ” assures Jérémy Faivre. “ Fifteen years ago, young people dreamed of becoming singers. Today, they want to be YouTubers ”.