This is what the game would like if it was working. It should be now.

﻿Some New Zealand Pokemon hunters are back in the game after an hours-long outage.

Pokemon Go's servers went down just before 8am on Tuesday (NZ time), rendering the game unplayable.

By 11.40am the servers appeared to be back up, after Australia's servers were turned on a few minutes before. Within half an hour they were back down. By 1pm the game was playable, but often kicked users off, requiring them to log back in.

A MMO server status website, which earlier showed the servers as down, said they were back up.

The augmented reality game, which allows players to capture Pokemon and gyms all over the real world using their smartphone, has run into scaling issues since it launched late last week.

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Already, the "global launch" of the game has been delayed indefinitely, with the app officially restricted to those in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.

Scaling issues are unsurprising given the game's explosive popularity: Some reports suggest it is already more popular than Tinder, and fast approaching Twitter. These services have built reliable systems to take on large loads of users over several years - Pokemon Go's public release is not yet one week old.

Game creators Niantic Labs have been contacted for comment.

POKEMON GO CRASHED AND THE SERVER STOPPED WORKING ASDFGGHHKKL — Stephanie (@Vik_The_Potato) July 11, 2016