New features on UGAME! Polls, invites and a Shop!
By Vincent "Flits" Croes September 05, 2008 at 16:00Issue No.2
KEY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES
It's been a while since we last bombarded you with what we've been working on behind the scenes so it's about time we did. There are big things in the pipe line, so don't think that because we've been quiet that we're not improving all the time.
We've decided to focus on the area of the site that will give the most enjoyment to the community and their groups of friends; so that mean teams, guilds and groups pages! The guys here at UGAME have been working on making sure that you get all your friends in the right place, are able to vote on things that count and have the games they need.
Here are some of the things we've been working on:
GROUP POLLS
When you have a need to know the opinion of the masses you can now offer an ‘opinion' poll. Whether you want to know who the best player is of a particular game to what everyone's favourite WoW character is, you can now find out. All you have to do is enter a poll in your group with the choices on offer and let the public take the vote. Don't forget that while the poll is running you will still be able to edit, delete and close all of your polls and if you're really keen you can even set a closing date and a start time for every poll. Here are some examples:


INVITE MODULE
Some of you are finding it hard to remember your friends email addresses to add them to UGAME so we've just made it easier for you. In your dashboard we've added an option for you to invite your friends for all of these email accounts:
- Gmail
- Windows live messenger
- Hotmail
- Yahoo!
- AOL
- ICQ mail
- Fast mail
- Lycos
- mail.com
- rediff.com
It even tells you whether your friends are already members or not and whether they are in your friends list already. So, what are you waiting for... Get your friends involved in the fun!
DOWNLOADABLE GAMES
UGAME has partnered with Nexway who offer digital downloads of games. We are now selling numerous games through the games pages on our site so if you're interested check them out. Here is our first promotion:
Be one of the first to get your copy of the new Stalker game, Stalker: Clear Sky from the comfort of your own home. All you have to do is:
1. Go to the Stalker: Clear Sky games page.
2. Click the "Buy this Game" button.
3. Enter the toomai site, add the game to your basket and follow the instructions.
Additionally if you manage to get 5 or more friends registered on UGAME trough the friend inviter you will receive a discount code which you can use in our shop. You get a 10% discount on all games!
This is a great way to buy games cheaper, faster and more easily without the hassle of having loads of CDs lying around!
Soik
SECOND!
In all fairness the upgrades extremely nice, very good job guys.
snakeye
Thanks for the heads up! We worked hard on it. Currently we are updating our whole games database to be more complete and consistent. We had 400 requested games that needed approval and we are implementing a new source for our game information :)
Protex
Anyone else get spammed by about 40,000 emails about the update?
aSpeN
11
snakeye
Yeah, that was a misconfiguration on our end ;) Sorry for that. We sent out an apology aswell hehe.
the_casual
Polls are great!
LionQ
w00t!
blaze
putting warsow in the best games ever poll you had as an example means something! :D
vicek
:D
SweepeR
Cause it is! (well, at least used to be, in 0.32 times :D)
Paradox
Great features, very good job x)
Noname
:O
DiGiTiZ
great work guys!! keep it coming xd