Going Out With A Bang: Madpea Blows Up UNIA Game Area

UNIA was a game that Madpea was proud of. Originally planned to be up for a little more than a year, it stayed for a year and a half. But all things come to an end, and inevitably UNIA had to come down so the space could be used by a new game. But instead of quietly closing it, the Madpea staff made a public event out of it. As those who were around watched, the sim blew up all around them.

Read Bixyl Shuftan's story in Extra.

Madpea's "Unia" Game To End on July 31

It was about a year ago in which the Madpea gaming team and location released "Unia," an inworld horror game. The product of more than two years of development, Madpea was very proud of the game, and the public group chatter has been full of people playing and asking for hints for many months. But all good things, and scary things, come to an end, and earlier this week Madpea announced the game would be closing on July 31.

UNIA was a dream come true for us at MadPea but every dream has an ending and UNIA’s end is nigh! July 31st UNIA will close and the zombie chickens will be returned to their pens, the sandworms will bury themselves forever and the Dreamers will drift off to restful sleep forever more. UNIA was the biggest game to hit Second Life and has been keeping players captivated for over a year. Until the closure in July we have slashed the price of the gold hud to 500L$ and removed the Silver and Bronze options. Play UNIA from now until then with your friends before this piece of Second Life history is no more.

Those interested in playing, it's not for free but the full package is now cheaper. The Bronze and Silver HUDs, which were 400 and 750 Lindens respectively, have been discontinued while the Gold HUD, which has three colors of uniform, a "triple shield," and a lockpick for an axe and gun, is now 500L.

Madpea has a long history of making games within Second Life, going back several years, some of which the Newser has reported on. Their most recent game is "The Interview."

Instructions on how to play Unia

Madpea blog

Madpea website

Hat Tip: Inara Pey

Bixyl Shuftan

SLife and Times: When Exploring Becomes a Pain in the Neck

After his review of Insilico (which was a fantastic review in the editor's opinion), Ozymandius set his sights on Madpea. With years of experience of making games in Second Life, surely they would have something interesting to write about. As it turned out, Ozymandius did find something, but not quite what he expected.

Read about Ozymandius' adventure in People.