Underworld’s site up and running
Finally, we have launched a special place for Underworld dealers to meet and chat.
Please welcome an official game site!
Finally, we have launched a special place for Underworld dealers to meet and chat.
Please welcome an official game site!
Bad news kicked in about the anticipated Traffic theme of Underworld. Got rejected again. Apple contacted us, saying that nothing that involves trafficking of illegal commodities won’t pass the bar.
Is it the time to make a theme featuring medical use of Underworld commodities? Seems like this works pretty well for other iPhone apps. Prescription only, 100% legitimate business, eh?
Anyway, this doesn’t stop us from improving the game along the roadmap. We are releasing a new version in the next couple of days. Feature preview;
What happened to the
Well, how about new ranks then? Right. New ranks (=upgrades) will come out together with a big new chunk of gameplay, right from the top of the Open Roadmap based on your votes. Yep, we’ve promised ‘Missions’ some time ago and to bate your curiosity, we’ll squeeze a separate post soon about the stuff we’re cooking right now.
Stay tuned!
Image credits to GenMed64, via Flickr.
If you follow the news, you probably know that since the release of a new firmware, the whole iPhone/iPod Touch community expected it to bring a lot of apps previously rejected from distribution in the AppStore. Yet we are still unsure if it helps Underworld to get its original setting back, but we promised to take our chances anyway.
Yes, we have
Underworld: Traffic will bring players into the same world as SweetDeal, with a difference in available commodities and dealer ranks.
Now we wait for the news from Apple and will let you know as soon as we get an update. Stay tuned!
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Update [July 10]: Hey, we’ve got an update from Apple. Not a very fruitful one though:
‘Your application, Underworld: Traffic 1.0, is requiring unexpected additional time for review. <…>’
Sounds like bad news to us, considering that a previous response like that led to two and a half months of waiting and then to a reject.
Well, fingers crossed, we let you know the minute something new comes up. Meanwhile, we are still working hard on the planned game improvements. Stay with us
Please welcome two new packs:
These are probably going to be the last packs we publish in an old-fashioned 2.0-style. New version supporting in-app purchases is on the way, to be submitted soon. As a bonus, push notification support will be squeezed into this version as well Stay tuned!
Another update of Underworld, 1.2 is ready and waiting for you in the AppStore.
We have submitted this version long before the 3.0 came out, so the 1.2 doesn’t have any of those bells & whistles of 3.0 iPhone firmware yet. Still it’s worth checking out.
Messages from dealers and other characters (Joey, Max, etc) now appear right over the offers screen, so you can read and answer to them without going deep into the Profile screen. The same has happened with sales notifications — check out the screenshots.
We have also improved the tutorial at the start of the game — hoping it’s going to be a lot easier for the newcomers to catch up with the rules now.
Many small bugs and glitches have been fixed in the game, thanks for the bug reports we get from the community.
Ok, now just go get the new version and let us know what you think. While you are enjoying it, we are almost ready with some
We have just added one more trick to the Underworld that you can use in exchange for UW points. It is a temporary +30% boost to your maximum Carry Space. This means that your current «carry space» value increased by 30% and this lasts for 4 hours!
One thing to clarify: if your carry space boost is over but you still have the amount of goods exceed your normal space limit, you don’t lose the goods anyway.
Visit Underworld to check out the new item!
Everyone will probably agree that these are exciting times both for the iPhone game developers and for the players. The long and highly anticipated 3.0 firmware is finally coming out tomorrow!
We would like to take a minute and summarize what does this new firmware mean for the Underworld and other MMO & location based games.
By popular demand, we have created a new pack of 50 UW points.
Seems like the shortest post on our blog, evah!
30 UW Point Pack has just been published in the AppStore. The best part about it is that the point pack is completely free!
Get it now until it’s out there!
For those who are unfamiliar with the whole
Another popular use is that sometimes you are getting second thoughts about upgrading too soon. Refunding equipment makes it possible to rethink what you have done
The same as with point packs, you can purchase