DrugLords is a location-based massively multiplayer online game about drug trafficking. Using GPS inside your iPhone, you become a drug dealer in the criminal underworld, which exists parallel to your everyday life.
The idea is simple. Moving between real-world locations, you trade various drugs: buy low and sell high. You find good deals and make profit by moving the stuff around. You do the trades with real people online: you find them in locations you go to.
You start as a small-time drug pusher with a goal to be a famous drug baron, make a fortune and dominate the world. Money gives you power: superior status, access to better drugs, high trafficking volumes, cash for bribes, independence from loan sharks, and a lot more.
Free beta version of the game will be launched in the next couple of weeks and distributed through the iTunes AppStore.
October 29th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Wasn’t this originally made for the TI-86 calculator?
October 29th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Hi, Meat!
No, it’s actually a brand new game
October 29th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Is it free / how much does it cost?
Where do we get it? I don’t see a link on your site, and can’t find it in the AppStore, Cydia or Installer.
October 29th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Matt - you are probably thinking of DopeWars - I remember than ansi/ascii based game from about 15+ years ago….seems to have been ported to jsut about everything (DrugLords seems like it is a variation of that game)
October 29th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Cam, it isn’t in AppStore yet, though it’s gonna be there soon! And it’s gonna be totally free.
October 29th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
there was a similar game designed to play on the palm pilot…. when the palm pilot was as young as the iphone. it was pretty huge at the time. kinda like doom for handhelds.
October 30th, 2008 at 7:50 am
Damn, this is so useful.
October 30th, 2008 at 8:39 am
2Tony: Don’t say it out loud, dumbass ;]
November 9th, 2008 at 4:53 am
is there a set date for when this game is going to come out… I have the iPhone 2.1 and it is still not in the appstore… I love this game and would love to find a way to get it on my iphone so if anything comes up can you e-mail me a link?——-> thanks a lot
November 9th, 2008 at 11:33 am
2jake: the game is going to be sent to the AppStore this week probably.
November 10th, 2008 at 5:20 am
ok I will wait then
thanks on the reply 
November 16th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Andrey, can you give us an update on the app Store release date please? Don’t want to miss what might be a small window within which to get this app. Thanks.
November 17th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
2scratchliterate: can’t really give a strict date right now, but quite soon already. i’m sure you won’t miss the release, we are not going to make the submission silently
November 18th, 2008 at 4:25 am
As snug as a bug in a rug
November 20th, 2008 at 5:26 am
Hi there! Your Post “Announcing DrugLords: location-based MMO game for your iPhone” is very interesting for me. Unfortunately my written English is not so good so I write in German: Dir, meinem liebsten, geh
November 20th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Excelent good article and blog. I wish good luck
November 27th, 2008 at 7:05 am
any idea on the release day yet?
November 27th, 2008 at 8:17 am
2jake: it depends only on Apple now.
November 27th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
ok… Do you have any ideas on how long it usuall takes with apple or do they not give you any feedback? And do you know if you have to have service to play the game? Thanks for all the help
November 27th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
2jake: from a couple of days to a couple of weeks, other developers claim. we are hoping for a couple of days, of course
you have to have an internet connection to play: either EDGE or 3G or WiFi.
November 27th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
oh ok cool I have that at my dads house
thanks andrey you have been the shit haha
December 1st, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Dec 1st……. any news yet on release???????
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:53 pm
2frankie t: still in review
December 7th, 2008 at 10:15 am
they have reveiwed this thing way too long… Is there any other page that I can find more info about the game… Such as game-play and such?
December 8th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
In the news papers today there were on about geting it banned. this will proberly get stoped now coz all the killjoys out there. that would be a waste of time for you lot.
December 8th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Fucking dogooders will probly get this banned
This will be a well good game
Stuff the weak minded people who will turn into “real dealers” by playing this
December 10th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
I don’t think that could happen… You need real drugs and actual dealing is WAY different then this game… It is close but with this game you don’t really have to meet people and watch your back for police… Anybody playing this game and then thinking they can deal because they played this game will get fucked… So let’s just hope the game comes out first
December 10th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
yer that’s why I put real dealers in the quotation marks
People said in the paper it influences drug dealing when you’ve got to be a total prick to turn into a drug dealer from playing a game
It’s like when some one killed someone and they blamed it on GTA
It’s bullshit
December 11th, 2008 at 5:31 am
I agree… I used to deal and I have never played a game half way similar to the real shit so I am sure this game won’t be any different
December 20th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Any news on this release? Date confirmed? Or has it been rejected???
December 20th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
No news, no date, no approval or reject ) Still waitin’ for Apple.
December 23rd, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Do you think it willbe accepted cause I could really use a game like this and I’m a little skeptical
December 23rd, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Jack, I still think we have kinda good chances
December 23rd, 2008 at 5:11 pm
If u feel good about it then so do I