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(Photo Credit: Hyper Hippo Games)
A video game made by the former Club Penguin founder has amassed a hugely passionate fanbase.
Hyper Hippo Games, a Kelowna company, is launching its “unusually addicting” video game, AdVenture Capitalist, on both iOS and Android. This game has been getting lots of rave reviews and in just a few months, it's racked up 75 million plays across multiple game platforms.
AdVenture Capitalist won 2014 Game of the Year on Miniclip.com and cracked Kongregate's Top 10 Most Played Games of All Time in less than a year. Not only that, but the app is featured as a Best New Game App on iOS.
(Photo Credit: Hyper Hippo Games)
The game is deceptively simple, working as an “idle” game where you get to be an investor building up your empire. With all the progress bars, revenue generations buttons, and a catchy tune, players work to get “investments”, which create profit that they can reinvest later. Since it's an idle game, it continues to go on even when you leave, meaning you get a ton of cash when you return later. As a result, players can go on the game as little as a couple minutes every day and still grow their fortunes to become ridiculously rich sexagintillionaires, meaning that their bank account has a solid 183 zeroes in it.
Lance Priebe, former founder of Club Penguin and the CEO and Creative Guy of Hyper Hippo, is passionate about the company's ability to make fun, memorable experiences. “My plan worked,” Priebe says. “I’ve spent more hours playing AdVenture Capitalist than anything else I’ve ever produced. I’m addicted to my own game.”
Lance Priebe, former Club Penguin founder and CEO and Creative Guy at Hyper Hippo. (Photo Credit: Contributed)
The game's success rocketed up on Kongregate, a source for free online games. The CEO and co-founder of Kongregate, Emily Greer, calls Adventure Capitalist “wildly addicting” and says the company is thrilled to also publish the mobile version.
“The value we’ve gotten from their web players, along with with our close relationship with their game producers to improve the game, made publishing the mobile version of Adventure Capitalist with Kongregate an easy choice,” said Lead Designer Cody Vigue. “They’ve believed in us from the very beginning.”
This Kelowna-made game is the first thing you see on Kongregate's homepage. (Photo Credit: Screen Grab)
Vigue also knows that the game's immense success is due to all the people who love playing it. “We owe our fans so much,” said Vigue. “They got this snowball rolling in a crazy big way. We wouldn’t be here without the involvement of hardcore Capitalists around the world .”
This enterprising new game is Hyper Hippo's biggest hit so far, and you can check it out for free on the web as well as the Apple and Google App Stores.
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