Candy Box!

Lets talk about games: Candy Box!

This post is high in spoilers and spoilerific posts aren’t for everyone. If you’re not cool with being spoiled then just know that it’s a neat little idle-game that has lots of cool features and some neat ascii art.

Here is a link: http://candies.aniwey.net/

- Spoilers -

Candy Box is an amazing little game by Aniwey that is much more than a simple idle game. As you progress into the game features become unlocked and you are given the option to do much more than wait for candy to accumulate. Initially you only start off earning 1 candy per second, with the option to eat all of your candy or to throw it onto the ground 10 at a time. Once you have accumulated 60 candy you unlock the ability to buy lollipops from the new merchant and at 150 you can buy your first sword, which opens up the ‘Quest’ mini-game.

Questing and candy will continue to unlock options for you. Once you have completed your first quest you’ll be given a nifty little key, a map, and if you happened upon a chest, a pair of seven league boots. These tools open up the lollipop farm, which allows you to grow lollipops for free, open up the Swampy Swamp which has a frog with riddles for prizes, and lets you adventure more quickly, respectively.

The lollipop farm starts slow but grows rapidly. Starting at 1 lollipop a day, once you have planted enough lollipops you can earn as many as 100 per second. It’s like compound interest and it happens before you know it, so buy lollipops early on and build your farm up because you need millions of lollipops to buy all of your upgrades.

As you continue to quest and unlock features you’ll open up wishing wells, new merchants, and the forge

where you can turn your sword into 1 of 3 different special swords: Sword of Life, Sword of Fire, and Sword of Summoning. The Sword of Life has life steal on hit, Sword of Fire has fire damage on hit, and Sword of Summoning summons monsters every time you kill an enemy.

Progress in the game is fast if you’re proactive. Clearing a run through of the Castle Entrance can earn you 17,000 to 19,000 candy at the cost of around 10 major health potions, which are cheap and quick to make once you have unlocked the cauldron. You can make a batch of 10 major health potions for 1,000 candy and 1,000 lollipops in 20 seconds, no more or less, with the cauldron.

In short it’s less of an idle game and more of a game that if you get stuck or have to go, rewards you for playing anyway. The art is endearing ascii and quite clever at times. Puzzles can be somewhat frustrating if you’re not sure what to think but there is lots of information available if you get stuck.

Check the game out at: http://candies.aniwey.net/