He also has other video game YouTubers visit, including Jimmy Wong, Shubble, Whitney Moore, and CaptainSparklez. Coppins said that with the television format, the crew would handle the camera, lighting, and editing, which is something he would do himself for his YouTube videos. In an interview with Monkeys Fighting Robots, Coppins said they filmed about 6-7 games for 90 minutes each daily, and in an interview with Tubefilter, he said they shot about 7-10 hours a day, three days a week. Seven months later, when the show was greenlighted, Coppins was given about 1.5 months to make the show. That’s kind of what that was, just with a bigger crew and production." they filmed the pilot in about two weeks and it was edited, as Coppins says, "basically, into YouTube videos. Coppins was approached by the Digomind production company to make a television pilot in which the theme was he was already doing on his YouTube channel. In 2016, Maker Studios was bought by Disney, which planned to have YouTubers provide digital content. In 2016, he began to get involved as an entrepreneur. In 2014, ParkerGames reached 200,000 subscribers, and as of May 2019, his channel had over 536,000 subscribers. He established his YouTube channel "ParkerGames" in 2013 and also contributed to the MineplexOfficial channel. After eight months in LA, he moved back to Texas for about two years, and then returned to LA. They were looking for a game to play together and settled on Minecraft. He played video games such as Runescape and got involved in filming his gaming with Lopes and posting it on YouTube. At age 16, he and his mother moved to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career, where he had some supporting roles including a Lifetime movie. He attended an acting convention in Dallas when he was in high school where he met fellow aspiring actor and producer Jonny Lopes.
Liebert, a local physician, and participated in school and church plays. He was homeschooled when he was younger, and then attended Calvary Christian School and Harlingen High School. At age four, the Coppins family moved to Harlingen, Texas where his father took on a job as a pastor. Ĭoppins was born in Eden, North Carolina to Mark and Darla Coppins. After the show was unofficially canceled by Disney, Coppins created a YouTube show named Parker’s Place!, inspired by Parker Plays and produced by the same people. The second season premiered on Octoand ran for six episodes. It premiered on Jas part of Disney XD's inaugural video-game themed programming block D|XP.
Parker Plays is an American television series featuring Parker Coppins., known by his YouTube channel name ParkerGames, playing various video games.