Upland Launches Into Q3 With New Roadmap

Upland just lately launched a doc outlining their growth plans for Q3 of 2023. And it’s a fairly packed roadmap! And since we’re already a 3rd of the best way into Q3, let’s check out their plans, and which options have already been applied!

Upland is quickly increasing. And I’m not simply speaking about including new cities to their recreation map. They’ve already added plot customization, retailer possession, participant created content material, social hubs, and extra! Actually, Upland appears to be quietly increasing their scope right into a metaverse model expertise. Their plans for Q3 embrace extra development, extra customization, and extra alternatives for participant possession!

What’s New in Upland for Q3?

For starters, Upland desires to increase the idea of Metaventures. Initially simply storefronts permitting house owners to create and monetize NFTs, Upland just lately added the power for Metaverse house owners to create customized racetracks. And when race wagers are in place (one other deliberate Q3 function), racetrack creators can earn revenue when their observe is utilized in a race.

And that is only a first step in the direction of increasing Metaventures and person created content material. Actually, participant generated content material is an enormous focus of the roadmap. Upland desires to streamline their approval course of, making it simpler for creators to get their content material into the sport.

Additionally they plan to increase their Cafes, 3D, avatar-based social hubs. They’re wanting into methods to provide Cafe house owners choice for monetizing these social hubs. Within the meantime, anticipate to see extra recreation meetups and actions centered across the Cafes which embrace proximity textual content and voice chat! Actually, the Upland group held a current AMA concerning the roadmap at one of many in-game Cafes!

Different Q3 plans embrace increasing missions, notably for serving to new gamers perceive all the recreation choices and mechanics, extra automobile utility, together with the power to make extra decisions when racing and the power to make use of automobiles for transport round and between cities, and extra Legits, comparable to collectibles from the FIFA Girls’s World Cup (already obtainable) and the NFLPA.

Upland can also be planning to increase their cross-chain performance, opening up transfers for extra of their NFT collections to the Ethereum community.

One other Q3 roadmap merchandise that has already been applied is a passive revenue for Terminal house owners. Terminal house owners now obtain 20% of the charges spent on tickets within the metropolis, and may apply to run a Metaventure from their Terminal plot.

You may learn the official blog post, and likewise watch an AMA recording from Upland for extra particulars on the Q3 roadmap.

What’s Upland?

Upland is a free to play, property buying and selling and city-building recreation the place gamers can discover cities, accumulate properties and meet different gamers. The play-to-earn recreation is obtainable on Android, iOS, and the Internet. 

Every participant in Upland is given a standing decided by his/her internet value primarily based on property and token holdings. The completely different ranks are Customer, Uplander, Director, Government, Professional, and Chief Government. When a person joins the sport for the primary time, he’s assigned Customer standing. And although gamers should buy properties proper from the beginning, they will’t promote them till they attain Uplander standing.

The official forex in Upland is UPX. Nonetheless, that is an in-game forex solely and can’t be traded between gamers.

Gamers earn passive UPX simply by proudly owning properties. Additionally they obtain revenue anytime one other participant “sends” themselves to an owned property. As well as, gamers can full Collections in-game by proudly owning particular properties (5 properties in the identical metropolis, for instance). These present a one-time UPX payout after which a passive enhance to UPX incomes so long as you preserve that Assortment. Gamers may purchase UPX tokens instantly from Upland.

Upland has expanded significantly over time, now encompassing greater than a dozen cities. They’ve additionally launched plot customization. Gamers can assemble buildings and adorn their properties in plenty of other ways. Gamers may personal retailers, promoting their very own, personalized Block Explorers!

To study extra about Upland, go to their website, comply with them on Twitter, and be a part of their Discord.