Sweet Underworld to hit the AppStore: survey results
Did you ever think about smuggling candies? ‘Cause that’s what we’d like to offer you to do in the AppStore version of Underworld.
After our survey on the AppStore friendly commodity pack was launched last week, we have got a lot more suggestions than we could imagine. It’s so exciting that the game isn’t even distributed officially and the community is already so big and active and ready to help. Thanks a lot, we appreciate the support very much! 
We examined the whole bunch of ideas scrupulously and have finally chosen the "sweet" setting. The logic behind this is that we don’t want to wait two more months to get rejected by Apple and want to make the game much more fun instead by letting all the AppStore people join it. Good point, right? Many UW players have put the same idea to the suggestion box. So, this is our decision on the commodity pack.
Due to a large amount of participants we are going to award not 10, but 25 of you (randomly chosen). The winners will get a special bonus in the AppStore version of the game (you’ll be informed).
Finally, two more things you want to ask probably. First, we intend to maintain Cydia’s version of the game after the official launch. Second, AppStore launch is scheduled to happen in the middle of March. Yay!
February 27th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Candiezz! lol!!!
U rok! kekeke
February 27th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Woop Woop! I don’t care what’s being traded now - Im just looking forward to finally getting my hands on the game.
Thanks for the good news guyz!
February 27th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
By The Way: Liking the icon!
February 27th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
I discovered a really innovative game on iTunes. Its called: iTag. And its Free!
Its an online game. Basically your opponents show up on a radar and you have to shoot them by taking a photo of them. Just type iTag in on the app store.
I know thats not entirley relevent to this UW but when you discover somthing its good to share
February 27th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Great news does this mean we can run two versions? Obviosly if we created a new account? Or will the cydia app over-ride the app store?
February 27th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
hahaha its was joke of the Candies Andrey hahaha
February 27th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Awesome, I have friends that have an iPhone but don’t want to jailbreak it (? Go figure). They have been waiting for the a AppStore version. They can’t wait.
Nice to see you were able to find something the everyone can enjoy.
Also I like the Icon as well.
February 27th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Did you guys happen to see this Giz article? It might be an interesting way to sneak the full game into there
http://i.gizmodo.com/5161281/imafia-for-iphone-circumvents-the-app-store-sells-other-apps-in+gameand-apple-willingly-approves
February 27th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
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February 27th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
why only 25 considering the huge ammount of people that will be playing after the release all the beta testers will seem like a small number.
February 27th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
is the cydia version going to be mixed with the AppStore version? Only we see drugs and they see Candy?
That would be nice.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
@ Albe
yeah I am wondering the same thing…. Personally I do not want to trade candy, so if am “forced” to do that I *might* rethink playing this game.
So maybe jailbreakers could still see drugs? Or have a downloadable
skin or something so we could choose? Please?
February 27th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
@Albe & Thomas
I’m wondering the same thing.
I’m thinking that if you have Sweet Underworld installed, and you open Underworld then you can see the Sweet Underworld people, regular underworld people and drugs instead of candy. Basically it would do a search on startup to see if Sweet Underworld is installed, and if not, they would not be able to play with sweet underworld people.
How much will Sweet Underworld cost anyway?
February 28th, 2009 at 5:18 am
i’d love for beta underworld to work with “sweet” underworld.
i really hope it does, along with at least 3 other people it seems.
February 28th, 2009 at 5:19 am
i love this game!
February 28th, 2009 at 5:20 am
underworld forum!
uwgame.11.forumer.com
February 28th, 2009 at 6:19 am
Also, to add to my above post, will our accounts be reset? I am at level “7″ and will probably be able to upgrade tomorrow to level “8″. I know I an not that far along but I would not like to start back at the beginning if it could be helped… I installed this game on the first day of it’s release on Cydia. (if I remember correctly) and I would hope that you would not do this to to all the beta testers…. I do realize that it wouldn’t be “fair” to the rest of the people that buy it on the app store, and of course you are the devs and can do whatever you want. Btw I would gladly buy it on the appstore if it meant that I would not have my account erased and reset.
Cheers,
Thomas
February 28th, 2009 at 11:35 am
OK andrey!
let me hear if you think its time to get the translation on. where can i post my email that only you can see it?? i think the best would be you send me textes you wanna have translated and i`ll send them back in german. or do you have a better idea how to do it? im waiting for your answer =)
February 28th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Can’t say for sure how are we going to treat both worlds - will they be connected in some way or not. We understand it’s important though, so I’ll let you know the details as soon as we come to the final conclusion.
February 28th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Thnx for the link, Zac. I missed it on Giz somehow
February 28th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Jesus, the game is gonna be distributed for free with paid additional extensions. Probably
February 28th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Eric Lewis, cool
I gave it some advertisement in Twitter 
February 28th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
jointe24, I think we are going to launch the translation in a more centralized and opened way than emails. I’ll let all know when and how we start it.
February 28th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
How are you going about choosing the 25 people?
i know i would like to be a part of it
March 2nd, 2009 at 2:12 am
thanks andrey! spread it like herpes. lol.
March 2nd, 2009 at 5:51 am
you should see if there is a way to convert the candies or whatever into the drugs, so that the cydia version works with the app store version.. just different names, same game and money and network, if possible
just a thought
March 2nd, 2009 at 8:03 am
YOu guys should have done BEER, Its ok we would have waited,.
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March 2nd, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Hey I had a question, up until yesterday I was running 2.1 software on my phone. I updated to 2.2.1 last night and reinstalled underworld but for some reason it won’t open. It just keeps going to the loading screen then flashes back to my home screen…tried removing and installing but same thing. Any ideas?
March 4th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Carlos, this is a known problem, the game doesn’t launch on some phones. Very strange issue that we can’t even reproduce on our devices at all
Although we are pushing an update to Cydia soon, with many improvements and bug fixes. It might help.
March 5th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Hey guys, I figured seeing how I’m one of the top dealers in the US I would say some things. GREAT APP. Can not wait to see the Candy Version of the game should be more fun for the little kids too. Carlos I just updated to 2.2.1 and it’s not working for me now. Let me know if you find a fix. Thanks
March 6th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
cmon guys first the bots now the servers
could you please throw us a little bonus for the wait and make it so bots bought all our stuff when we get it back? i’ve been stuck with some ecstasy for about 4 hours and need that space for more coke. lol
March 6th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Servers gonna be up again in an hour or so. Bonus is that we are pushing 1.1 next week already (finally, chatting, yay!
March 6th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Great Game! Looking at the voting page gives me pause though. A few of the items would definitely be a help in terms of making the “world” seam more real. My only concern is that if you take things too far we might as well be playing GTA-4. Keep it up! I hope the server problems don’t eat you alive. When you launch 1.1 will it load automatically or will it be a manual upgrade? Also, will all of inventory disappear? I’m hoping that when the servers come back on-line that all of my money and drugs will reappear. Details, Details…
Good Job /:0>
March 6th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Just to let you KNOW !!! THIS game is fantastic !! i can’t wait to see the update… i am addicted.. maybe i should switch to Candies
March 6th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
paulie44: As far as the server goes when it comes back up all you info should still be there, as this is not the first time I have not been able to connect to it, but it always comes back with everything I had before.
March 6th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
any ETA on server up and running?
March 6th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Details on the outage and 1.1.
March 7th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Isn’t there already a candy wars… lol sweet underworld
March 13th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
I think having the Underworld we play now co-exist with the AppStore version would be essential to this game exploding. And all of the beta testers would automatically be rewarded, as we will be higher levels thananyone to begin with, and there will be alot of them.
If not possible, you would have to find a way around it. Have servers separate, but at least have current version overide Appstore version, a skin, I dunno because I’m not a programmer, but I know its essential
March 18th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Any news on the release of the candy version on the appstore? I saw mid March launch? Or is it just not available in the U.K appstore?
March 19th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
I have been playing this religiously over the past ocuple weeks and have seen myself raise levels 5x faster than before. I would support this in the app store but I would like for a few bugs to be fixed first.
Do you respond on twitter? I know that this isn’t the place for that.
March 19th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
2 last questions. Sorry about forgetting it in the first post.
Will you choose the winners from these comments or the comments throughout the site?
And when do you think that you will be ready to choose the beta testers?
March 20th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
David, not sure if we’ll be able to put those two worlds together. And there are not only technical troubles in the way.
March 20th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
Anonymous, we have changed our plans a bit because of the version 1.1 we wanted to publish to Cydia first. I’m gonna make a separate post about the AppStore version timeline soon.
March 20th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Grego, yes, I’m answering in twitter.
What comes to the commodity survey rewards - I think we will have to stick to the players who left their comments right in the game. This is the only way we know the exact player to give the bonus to.
June 7th, 2009 at 9:27 am
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June 17th, 2010 at 3:32 am
Fascinating! But you should check your comment queue more frequently. You seem to be taking on some spam comments. I had the same problem myself. So these days I go over everything carefully.