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Celebrating Halloween in Traveler’s Quest

Kitty Code — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:37:48 +0000

One of the coolest things about Traveler’s Quest is our limited edition collections. This year, we are celebrating Halloween with an original Halloween 2011 Limited Edition Collection, available now through October 31, 2011. What’s even better is that our wonderful gnomes are putting in overtime right now to make sure you have a very good chance of completing this rare collection! Make sure to join us through Halloween, and collect as many of these pieces as you can!

In addition to the Halloween 2011 achievement, we’re also offering a special prize to our players on our Facebook page, so join our great community of players there for some extra fun where you can share your achievements, find other players near and far, and even arrange trades with other local players! Anything is possible in this very dynamic game, with it’s fantastic players!

We look forward to celebrating Halloween with you!

The Kitty Code, Traveler’s Quest Team

Traveler’s Quest: How much can traveling help your score?

Ilene Jones — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:10:03 +0000

Traveler’s Quest is a game about location, but not your average check-in game. Actually, there are no check-in’s at all in Traveler’s Quest.

Grumpy Lumpy from Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA

Your goal, detect treasure around you with your treasure detector, or buy maps to near by treasures. Then go to where the map leads you to pick up the treasure. Easy enough right? What if you lived in Florida, and took a froggie with you to Seattle, and another player picked up that treasure and took it to Australia? That’s exactly what happened to this Grumpy little guy. We’re guessing he doesn’t like to travel much, but he has definitely gone the distance, and all that traveling was definitely worth while!

Australian Grumpy Lumpy - Worth a bundle half way around the world!

The difference is a local Grumpy Lumpy that has only traveled 3 hours, or 200 miles north is worth 34 gold per day if he were buried, but our new Australian transplant is worth a whopping 293 gold per day if he is buried, or if he were to be sold to the local store, the owner would receive 2,934 gold. While most players won’t travel this far, you can see how much traveling can help you reach the top of the leader boards!

Happy Hunting!

Traveler’s Quest 2.4 Released!

Kitty Code — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:00:18 +0000

Traveler’s Quest 2.4 finished the Apple approval process today, and is now available on the iTunes App Store. The features in TQ 2.4 sound simple enough:

Doubloon upgrade currency
New Accuracy Leaderboard
Game Center Integration
iPhone 4/Retina Display Images
Redesigned About/Settings page

Doubloons

The biggest change with this version is the new upgrade currency called Doubloons. In Traveler’s Quest, we have an in game currency called gold. This currency is earned through hard work and effort in the game, burying treasures, receiving gold for purchases of your buried maps, and daily gold income from buried treasures. It takes time, and a lot of treasures to gain a large daily income. This gold can be used to level up your bury, detect or purchase anything in the in-game store. So where do Doubloons come in then? Doubloons are a way to purchase upgrades with real world money. Each Doubloon is equal to 1 gold, which makes it easy to put a gold/doubloon price on each upgrade. The upgrades are listed as costing a certain amount of doubloons, however the reality is that the upgrade uses doubloons first, and then, if you do not have enough doubloons to purchase an item, it will also use gold to purchase an item. This makes the assumption that you would want to use your real world money before using in game gold to purchase an item. When you tap the purchase button, you will receive a pop-up which will show you how many doubloons and how much gold you you will spend on the item you wish to purchase, making it abundantly clear where the “money” is coming from before the purchase is made.

New Accuracy Leaderboard

Accuracy is something that most players feel is important. We have listened to the players, and found a way to make accuracy even more important – in the form of a new leaderboard! This new leaderboard encourages players to get as close as possible to the X before picking up the treasure. Players who constantly pick up treasures closer to the 1 mile mark will not rank as high as players who get as close as possible to the X. Players who pick up treasures between 1.5 and 1 mile will find that there is also a negative accuracy, which will take away from their leaderboard score. The accuracy bonus could also be thought of as a sharp shooter bonus.

Game Center Integration

What game is complete without Game Center? Adding Game Center allows us to not only track the leaderboards individually, but also among our friends. You can determine if your friends have finished the same achievements as you, and compare scores more directly between friends. In game, your Game Center achievements can be seen on the Achievements tab. In the Game Center App, you can compare your achievements and leaderboard scores with your friends. See which collections your friends have finished and more!

Retina Display Graphics

Of course with the iPhone 4, the need for retina display images became apparent. While these graphics are not perfect yet, they are a very large step in the right direction. Look forward to seeing more in future updates!

About Page

Our About/Settings/Info page has received some attention this time around, adding links to our Facebook fan page, Twitter feed, Support page, as well as our application pages. The Traveler’s Quest logo image even goes to the Traveler’s Quest app in the App Store, so you can quickly and easily let everyone know how much you love our humble little game!

2009 Best App Ever Award Nominee!

Kitty Code — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:37:04 +0000

Hurricane and Traveler’s Quest receive nominations for the 2009 Best App Ever awards!

Please help Hurricane and Traveler’s Quest win the 2009 Best App Ever Awards in their categories. Every vote helps, so please take a moment to help us receive this prestegious award!

Voting is open now through Jan 31, 2010.

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Best News App
Best Use of Location Svcs
Best MMO Game

2009 Best App Ever Awards

Kitty Code — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:06:33 +0000

Would you like to help nominate Hurricane and Traveler’s Quest for the Best App Ever? We knew you would! Please click on these links to help us show the world what you already know, Kitty Code creates the best apps ever! We would have tried to include Cat Calls, but there were no options for an app with the cutest kitties ever There aren’t many categories where a hurricane tracking application can fit in, after all, who really cares about your safety anyway right? Below are the categories that we feel our apps fit into. If you feel they fit in other categories, please feel free to nominate away!

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New Players Wanted!

Kitty Code — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:54:34 +0000

If you are new to Traveler’s Quest and are also a member of Facebook, why not become a fan and follow with your fellow players? We have a great community of players sharing all sorts of information about game play, tips and tricks, as well as what they would like to see in the next versions of the game. We are listening and participating too, so stop by and join in!