Gallery: Indie Developers Troll King Games Hard With 'Candy Jam'

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    If you've ever wanted to play a candy-themed first-person shooter, *[Candy Scroll Justice Saga TM](http://tnerb.itch.io/candy-scroll-justice-saga-tm)* lets you break out of prison—where you've been imprisoned for copyright crimes. (Expand the gallery to fullscreen for the best experience.)
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    One of the more pointed satires, *[King of all the Candies](http://casimps1.itch.io/king-of-all-the-candies)* asks you to monitor a list of social network games, flagging any titles with the word candy for a lawsuit, and any games with more than a million users for cloning by your dev team. Zing!
  • Candy Princess Saga Crush King Trademark is a short sidescroller about fighting lawyerknights corporate zombies and evil...
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    *[Candy Princess Saga: Crush King Trademark!](http://somepx.itch.io/candyjam)* is a short sidescroller about fighting lawyer-knights, corporate zombies, and evil warlock Ricardoz, who bears absolutely no resemblance to King.com CEO Riccardo Zacconi.
  • A puzzler with echoes of Jason Rohrer's Passage Candy's Crushes Saga asks you to physically navigate the labyrinth of...
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    A puzzler with echoes of Jason Rohrer's *Passage*, *[Candy's Crushes Saga](http://pierrec.itch.io/candys-crushes-saga)* asks you to physically navigate the labyrinth of romance.
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    The idea behind *[Candy Scrolls](http://roguenoodle.itch.io/candy-scrolls)* is short but sweet: jump from gumdrop to gumdrop to grab scrolls, where blue moves you one space, purple two spaces, and pink three spaces.
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    The only entry that appears to be set in Communist Poland, *[Kukulki](http://sos.itch.io/kukulki)* encourages you to crush a traditional candy and then informs you that your high score doesn't matter because "in Communist Poland, everyone is equal."
  • Another deceptively simple puzzler Sticky Candy Puzzle Saga by Alan Hazelden asks you to navigate pieces of candy that...
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    Another deceptively simple puzzler, *[Sticky Candy Puzzle Saga](http://draknek.itch.io/candy)* by Alan Hazelden asks you to navigate pieces of candy that stick together on contact to their final destination.
  • Part Papers Please and part TSA screening CONTRACandy is about stripsearching travelers to make sure they aren't...
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    Part *Papers, Please* and part TSA screening, *[CONTRACandy](http://alexvscoding.itch.io/contracandy)* is about strip-searching travelers to make sure they aren't refugees from a war-torn candyland. It's... kind of grim, actually.
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    Perhaps the best-looking of the bunch, *[The Saga of King Kersnuffle](http://toastierepublic.itch.io/saga-of-kingkersnuffle)* is an adventure game where you play as a dictatorial piece of chocolate fond of imprisoning family members as he faces an anarchist plot to overthrow his kingdom.
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