Smuggle Truck now Snuggle Truck on iOS after Apple rejection, PC/Mac version includes both

by Alexander Sliwinski on Apr 28th 2011 7:00AM

Content trumped context after Smuggle Truck was rejected by Apple for distribution on the company's iOS App Store, but Owlchemy Labs reworked some art to launch Snuggle Truck for iPhone and iPad.

"The changes made to the game consist only of minor art changes and some swapped sound effects. Gameplay remains exactly the same," Owlchemy's Alex Schwartz told Joystiq. "Essentially, instead of smuggling immigrants over the border, you're now bringing animals from the wilderness into the comfort of a zoo, where they are provided plenty of food, water, shelter, and state of the art health care."

Schwartz explained that Snuggle Truck was the developer's way of still bringing "the fun and silliness" of its original game to the iOS platform. Due to contractual reasons, he couldn't tell us the details of Apple's rejection.

Mac and PC players don't have to compromise, as they'll be able to switch between Smuggle Truck and its cuddlier counterpart with the press of a button (as shown in the video after the break). Snuggle Truck is available now on the App Store for iPhone ($2) and iPad ($3). Smuggle Truck (with Snuggle Truck) is $5 from SmuggleTruck.com.

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Tags: ios, ipad, iphone, mac, mobile, owlchemy-labs, pc, smuggle-truck, snuggle-truck

Reader Comments (51)

2011 and we still have censorship. Gat dam.

@wcarnation

It's not censorship.

It's a private company not agreeing to publish someone's game because they don't like it and then agreeing to publish it after the parts they don't like are changed.

@JasonA

So Apple is blocking the game from the store because they do not approve of the content.

Yeah it's not like that is the very definition of censorship or anything..............wait a sec.

@Cap Morgan You mean just how every time Joystiq bans spammers it's censorship because they do not approve of the content?

@JasonA

If you don't comprehend how that isn't censorship, this just can't be helped.

@Cap Morgan Right, it's censorship, because he can't post his game on the internet, publish it himself, or even speak of it in public. We need reform!

Wait...

I'm not totally convinced this is really censorship–apple didn't want to publish a game, so they didn't. It's not like they agreed to publish the game and then and then demanded the content be changed. It was the creators' own choice to change the game–where they could have simply released the game on PC/Mac they decided they wanted to publish on iOS and instead changed the game themselves.

If I designed a JRPG-style game and took it to EA and they told me "No, this isn't the kind of thing we do or want" that's not censorship, they just don't want their company to publish my product.

@Acosta02

If you took it to EA and they said no, you could go to THQ, Activision, Bethesda, Atari, Namco Bandai, etc.. etc..

@JasonA I think you were trying to be sarcastic and nobody caught on, am I right?

@This Little Man Says His Name Is

So port it to Android or WP7.

@This Little Man Says His Name Is

I'm not sue what you're saying, but similar to that one could take their game to XBLA, Android, PSN, etc.

Adorable.

apple is so weak

@dnelson1025

Agreed. I think I'll buy this on PC just to support these guys. It sounds hilarious and I'm so sick of everything having to be so politically correct.

That name is hilarious! Is that the real art for the new game? With the barbed wire still in place?

was looking forward to this one, but honestly i'm pissed to be asked to pay more to play it on pc, especially since apple doesn't take their huge chunk.

either the ipad version should be 5 bucks or the pc version 3, but until there's some equality in the pricing, i'll pass.

@fid Yeah man, that five bucks REALLY breaks the bank. I can see why you're offended.

@fid Yeah man, that five bucks REALLY breaks the bank. I can totally see why you're offended.

@pfranzen Though personally I'm much more offended by your double-posting.

@fid

That's awful. You would accept it if the iPhone version charged more, even though it doesn't affect you. So is this just like a fit of jealousy or what?

Oh well Joystiq seems to be eating my replys so if two replys show up at some point in the future.....

@Acosta02
i would accept the iphone version costing more only because apple takes at least a 30% cut right off the top, as well as these guys had to redesign their product to be published on the apple platform in which they would incur additional costs. so it would be a more costly platform to publish on.

@pfranzen
it's not about the money, it's the principle of inexplicably being charged more for the same product. if someone pokes you with a stick is it going to kill you? no, but are you going to move away from them? of course.

I was raised by wolves and am offended by this.

Can you unlock immigrants afterwards? And bring them to the zoo...

They took our jobs!!!

@SANCHO
Cuckoo-ri-coooo!

What to water down a game that no one cared about to begin with.

"I don't care about this game, therefore no one cares about this game."

@TheShaper
*way

@Epoque
I'm glad that you understand this.

Are Apple scared that they'll get sued because kids will play this, then be inspired to drive around their parents cars and carry immigrants across the border?

@Blizzard
By that logic, now they're gonna try and "save" animals from the wilderness and take them to zoos.

@TheShaper

Apple saved the day then! Thank god for that!

Call me old fashioned, but that's way racist. saying is the same "game" they just chance the art, inmigrants = animals. I hope I'm wrong and that wasn't their intention.

@ednomine

Immigrant is not a race.

@ednomine

You interpreting something racistly doesn't make it racist.

@ednomine - Notice how they are cute, fuzzy stuffed animals, and how the font has changed to block letters. Clearly the dev has made a joke, by making the game as sickeningly PC and kid friendly as humanly possible.

Your racial insensitivity meter needs calibration.

(Don't worry. I constantly have to recalibrate my sarcasm meter, because I keep breaking it by being a smartass.)

I like how in the original version, you were making people happy, and that was considered bad; in the new version, you're making animals sad, and that's considered totes cool.

In 20 years, I bet a game about taking animals out of their natural habitant and locking them up in zoos would have trouble getting published (and rightly so as zoos are horrible concepts).

Well, the concept of locking up animals is a horrible concept. The other side of zoos, that being sustaining endangered populations in preparation for reintroduction to the wild, is a brilliant concept that spits in the face of survival of the fittest.

@JasonA

i was thinking it and it was already posted.

You sir just earned +1 internetz point, but you know what I meant

Thanks but no thanks. Probs for the devs coming up with a new concept so fast

Reminds me of this Simpsons quote!

Grandpa Simpson: I cleaned up all my best war stories for her. I was just telling her how we chased the teddy bears into their cuddle bunkers, then had to tickle them out with machine hugs and fun throwers! They say the more soldiers you tickle, the easier it gets. Well, sir, it doesn’t.

@butaneko LOL! I love that quote.

Of the million games on the Istore, why is there an article about this one? Is the game from a well known studio? Is it fun to play or any good? $2 is kind of spendy for an IOS game, dunno if I want to risk it...

@Hoops

Thanks to Angry Birds, you have no flipping clue WHAT will be the next big hit.

A game about shit flushing could be the next be craze.

Why are people so picky about iOS game prices?

It's like buying Phoenix wright for $2 and saying its too much when retail is still full on.. The reviews are always centered around, $2 is a big risk!

Yeesh..

Somewhat coincidentally, before I could watch the video, I got a dog food commercial.

@Drakkenfyre Target marketing at its finest.

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