Charadium is doing great

Thanks to everyone for the warm reception for Charadium II! Right now it’s Top #1 free iPad word game, Top #3 free iPad app overall, Top #2 free iPhone word game, and Top #16 free iPhone app overall on the US AppStore. It’s fantastic that so many people enjoy playing the game.

Our servers turned out to be somewhat vulnerable to such high load, our engineers are doing their best to fix all the issues and get Charadium to work perfectly as it always did and how it should.

UPDATE: We believe to have solved all server issues. Please let us know if you are still facing problems.

An On5 engineer fixing the Charadium engine on the fly

  1. Shithead says:

    The game is NOT WORKING. I live for this game. I play it when im bored. Im bored now and its not working!!!

  2. On5 says:

    Shithead, what exact issues (apart from suddenly closing rooms sometimes) are you experiencing? Thanks!

  3. Lateefa says:

    Why doesn’t the location of my ranking change when I travel to another country?
    Right now, I’m in UAE, but it still says 4th in SAUDI.

    Isn’t it suppose to change?

  4. Shithead says:

    The issues are can’t chat in the ping pong games. But its all fine now. The server was bad not anymore.

  5. On5 says:

    Lateefa, just open your Career screen, after that within several minutes your location will be switched

  6. Cody says:

    Game has been running great until today:(

    I currently have 3 ping pong games going. 2 of them are in my “waiting” column, despite it being my turn. One is in my “my turn” column, despite it being the other Player’s turn.

    I went into the 2 games that were actually waiting for me to guess, but I was only able to see and guess the other Players’ 1st of 2 drawings before that ping pong game/s got stuck.

    The one that is actually the other Player’s turn is also not doing anything.

    Suggestions?

  7. Trilobyte says:

    Today I played (classic) and the drawer was not getting points only the guessed? When did this change? Will it stay like this?

  8. Trilobyte says:

    Another problem I am noticing has to do with the new achievement system. I am on Scribbler and can’t progress past it. I guess 3 ten letter words, for example, and it says I have 2 to go. The next day it resets and says I still have 5 to go; it forgets that I already did 3. Same thing happens with the other categories as well. Am I the only one this is happening to?

  9. On5 says:

    Cody, Trilobyte

    These issues have the same origin: a bad server migration in preparation for the launch of the update. Right now both problems are fixed: the Ping Pong games update properly, and the painters receive their points.

    We are sorry for this happening.

  10. On5 says:

    Trilobyte, as for the achievements: those resets are caused by a bug in the current version of Charadium. An update which fixes them is already in approval with Apple, and should go live in the coming days.

  11. Cody says:

    When you say, “Right now both problems are fixed.”, do you mean they are fixed in the next update? Because my games are still stuck the same way they were yesterday when I posted the problem here.

    I am on iPad2, playing Charadium II HD. I deleted and reinstalled the app, as well as rebooted iPad and it’s still stuck.

    This problem just started yesterday. Up until then, the games were running smoothly. So, maybe what ever you did to your servers caused the problem for my games?

  12. Kim says:

    Same problem as Cody. My games are stuck even though it’s my turn. There’s no box on top to click on. Any way to fix it?

  13. On5 says:

    Cody, Kim: sorry to say that, but the stuck games may be permanently spoiled. This shouldn’t happen to the new games however.

  14. Cody says:

    K. So all we have to is delete the stuck games and start new ones? That’s easy enough! 🙂

  15. On5 says:

    Cody, most probably, yes. Please let us know if something bad ever happens to the newly created games!

  16. Meg says:

    I’m stuck in a ping pong game, it has done this before. There’s a line for chatting and two pictures that me opponent and I each drew….. But I can’t get out of the game to play classic or king of the hill.

    Thoughts or suggestions?

    Thanks!

  17. Carimina says:

    I can’t figure out how to play with people that don’t have Facebook. I try to invite by email but that doesn’t seem to do anything but send an email. They all have the game installed but I can’t invite them to play even through gamecenter. Do they have to have a facebook account?

  18. On5 says:

    Meg,
    can you please send us a feedback from the app (this way we’ll find your user faster)?

    Carimina,
    We try to make “friendships” automatically when we see that someone who just joined was invited by someone else before. Hoever, sometimes people register with other emails etc. You should try to find people by their emails. Also, you can tell your friends your username, so they can find you easily.