The Yoloplay Story
The business was created to harness innovative gaming concepts and use the abilities of the team to create games for existing technologies, while developing solutions for the ever-changing casino games market.
That includes the move to social gaming platforms, but Yoloplay haven’t forgotten about traditional bricks and mortar casinos, or the online world and have ensured that their games are compatible with as many different operating systems as possible. They also aim to help clients keep their players engaged for the long term, by providing games with new levels of interaction and innovation, while allowing gamblers to access the same titles on their desktops computers, tablets and smartphones for the maximum convenience and flexibility.
Located on Brickell Avenue in downtown Miami, the offices of Yoloplay are promoted as a place when passionate and talented members of staff work together as a team. They encourage openness, a sharing of ideas and creativity, while stating that they are never satisfied with the status quo and always looking to have the highest standards within the gaming business. This is certainly an ambitious company, so let’s take a look at their selection of their games to see if they live up to the lofty standards that they have set themselves.
Games from Downtown Miami to the World
While Yoloplay have a select range of Bingo and Keno games available, we’re looking at some of their slots, which come in a range of styles and themes and with varying features to engage players.
In Shang Dynasty, Yoloplay have a game that sticks to the ever-popular theme of Chinese culture, which sets the reels against pink cherry blossoms and fills them with blue vases, statues of fish, doughballs and an Emperor who looks resplendent in his golden armour. He’s also a wild symbol that expands across any reel that he lands on followed by a free respin, where he stays in place as other reels spin once more.
This wild symbol can also be nudged into place if it’s peeking from above or below the reels or is needed in a different reel position to complete a winning combination. Also provided in this 5-reel, 20-payline slot is a free spins feature and a jackpot prize.
There’s 5-reels and 40-paylines of aquatic action in the Deep Sea Wonders video slot, which dives right into winning ways with a great white shark wild symbol, free spins, the shared jackpot and a unique Deep Dives bonus feature where various characters expand across reels to award instant multiplier wins. Like Shang Dynasty, this slot has some very realistic graphics, particularly with regards to the human images used in both games.
For those punters who like classic fruit machines, Yoloplay have given us 777 Rush, which features a variety of classic symbols including the BAR icons, along with red, white and blue 7’s. The jackpot prize is here, as are a couple of bonus rounds such as free spins and a pick-a-prize feature that leads to some of the biggest coin awards. A wild symbol will boost winnings during the free spins, and combined with the other features, 777 Rush is far from your standard no-frills fruit machine.
This snapshot of their range reveals slot machines that each come with something a little different from the usual, while impressive graphics and interactive features will all appeal to players on all gaming platforms.
The Software Behind the Games
Yoloplay promotes their Adaptive Game Engine, which creates HTML5 slots in record time, or converts existing games so that they can be played across mobile devices as well as on desktops or in land-based cabinets. To work on mobiles, the games can flip orientation from portrait to landscape, and to ensure crystal-clear images on all platforms, they are presented in High Definition, including Ultra HD+, or 5K.
Casinos around the world can adapt the Yoloplay range to local requirements, including multi-language and multi-currency support. If a language or currency isn’t already available, they are able to quickly integrate new ones into any game.
Of course, we all want our games to be fair and reliable and to this end, Yoloplay work with Gaming Laboratories to provide all the documentation and certification needed to guarantee that return to player percentages are as declared. Different national and international licensing and regulatory bodies have also certified the range, and compliance is built in to each game from the start of design and development.
A Company to Watch?
Although Yoloplay remains a relatively small company, going by their range of products and the services that they can provide, there’s no reason to doubt that exciting times lie ahead for them. By having the range multi-platform and multi-country compatible, we can expect to see more of their games appearing as and when they develop them.
We were particularly impressed with the sharp images of each slot visited, and while the layout and features are not completely new, they manage to make them sufficiently different from others on the market to stand out. Free spins, expanding wilds, jackpots and pick-a-prize rounds have all been seen before, but these are tried and tested features that are popular with the punters, so Yoloplay have been wise to include them. The fact that so many are packed into each game is a nice thing to find and should help to broaden the appeal.
By concentrating on quality rather than quantity, they have laid the foundations for a bright future, so keep an eye out for further releases from this up and coming developer.
