Bunny Game

The joy in this little boys face tells me all I need to know about this Easter game.

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Amazing Candy/Junk Food Thing That You Should Buy - Chocolate Bar Maker

If I had this I couldn't complain about the ratio of ingredients in my candy bars anymore.

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Candy in the Media - This Is My Kind Of Candy Game

This game looks amazing, and I highly recommend supporting the release.

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Amazing Candy/Junk Food Thing That You Should Buy - Crazy Candy Wooden Jigsaw Puzzle

What better way to pass the time then making this really cool candy jigsaw puzzle. Some of the candies on this puzzle are true classics from my childhood too.

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Amazing Candy/Junk Food Things That You Should Buy - Chocolate Fix Game

I love logic games and I love chocolate, so this is pretty much perfect.

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Birthday Wish List Part 8 - Candy Land

With my love of candy and board games you'd think that I would already have a copy of Candy Land, but I don't. I like this version most of all because it's the retro version.

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Watch Us Make Japanese Candy... With Commentary

All this week we're posting reviews of Japanese DIY candies, and I bet you're wondering how easy (or difficult) they were to make. Well have I got a surprise for you, we filmed the entire process, and to make it even more entertaining we have commentary as well.

If you liked this very long video, and want more (maybe not as long), make sure to follow us on YouTube.

Also make sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram to keep up with the Japanese DIY candy review-a-thon.

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My Candy/Junk Food Chrsitmas Wishlist - King Chocolate

Of all the games that I've posted on this wish list, this is probably the one I want most. After all, I love chocolate.

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My Candy/Junk Food Chrsitmas Wishlist - New York Slice

Yet another fun game all about food that I love. It would be awesome to play this game while eating pizza, unless it also might get confusing.

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My Candy/Junk Food Chrsitmas Wishlist - Wreck-It Ralph

When I first saw this movie, I had no idea that there was anything candy related at all. I was so happy to see such a cool candy theme, as well as a really good movie.

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Candy In The Media

I know this isn't really "candy" related, but a game about fighting sausages was too much for me to ignore.

Click here for the Apple version and here for the Android.

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A "For My Birthday" Candy Thing

Every Wednesday, till my birthday, I'm posting candy things that I'd really like to have.  I'm not saying you have to get me anything, but if you're planning to, these things would make me really happy.

This week I thought I'd go a little retro.  Ever since I was a kid, I've always wanted my own arcade.  This probably stems from the fact that I'm not really good at games, but I really enjoy playing them.  I used to drop quarter after quarter in the Paper Boy arcade game, yet I don't think I've ever made it past level 3.

A claw game that dispenses candy would be the perfect addition to my fictional home arcade.  It's a game that I've never been good at, but really enjoyed.  It would be a great way to minimized that amount of candy I eat because it would take me hours just to get one candy out of this machine.

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Candy In The Media

All this month on the Candy In The Media segment of the Candy Critic blog we're going to look at candy themed games for tablets.  All of the games will be tested on my Nexus 7 tablet running Android Kit Kat.  Keep in mind that I'm not really a gamer, so my past experience is pretty minimal.  I'll mainly be focusing on how easy it is to play, how it incorporates candy, and any tech issues that may come up.  We welcome your suggestions for games you think we should try out on future posts.

As far as candy themed games go, Candy Transport is fairly average.  It's the kind of game I can play for about 10 minutes, but after that I'm left bored or frustrated.  Theme wise it's pretty good, lots of mouth watering candies to look at and lots of fun characters to check out. The plot of the game is to load your truck up with all kinds of candies.  Each candy is a different size and shape, thus making it challenging to balance your load.  Then you have to drive over a series of bumps and hills without losing any of your candy load.  Lose too much and you're out.

The frustrating part of this game comes from the way the candy is randomly dumped into your truck.  Sometimes it falls into a nice neat pile, other times most of it falls out of your truck before you even start.  You can move your truck around when you're loading up, but I still get the sense that it's fairly random.  I was also kind of frustrated that after I saved up for a new bigger truck, the back end of it was tilted and it allowed candy to spill out of my truck when I went up hill.  The improvement was a little better, but considering I saved up for the most expensive truck, it wasn't worth it.

One of my favorite parts of this game came about whenever you finished a level.  At the end of each level you're given a congratulations from a random candy guy, and it was followed by a "Did you know?" candy fact.  These facts are utterly ridiculous, but really fun. Most of them would give very unrealistic praise to various candies.  I warmed up to this game fairly quickly, after a while I got bored of it, but I was still able to pick it up now and again and enjoy it for a short period.

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Candy In The Media

All this month on the Candy In The Media segment of the Candy Critic blog we're going to look at candy themed games for tablets.  All of the games will be tested on my Nexus 7 tablet running Android Kit Kat.  Keep in mind that I'm not really a gamer, so my past experience is pretty minimal.  I'll mainly be focusing on how easy it is to play, how it incorporates candy, and any tech issues that may come up.  We welcome your suggestions for games you think we should try out on future posts.

This week's candy themed game was one that is fairly popular with many people, but one I've never actually tried myself.  Actually the Hidden Object Candy version of the game may not be the most popular, but the "Hidden Objects" style of game is very popular right now.  That would explain why there are hundreds of variations to this game, with all kinds of themes.  This is but one version of this game, and as you'll read later on, I don't really understand why they even bother.

The object of this game is to find random stuff.  A picture comes up on your tablet with a pile of random things loosely attached to the picture and you have to find (and click on) specific objects hidden amongst the clutter.  A few of the objects interact with the background, or at the very least are themed appropriately.  Most objects are completely random and are just floating within the picture for no particular reason.  You get a time limit to find the objects, and then you get a bonus round to fine even more.  I can see how the concept of this game may work, but I don't really think this version works at all.

My biggest problem with this game is the randomness.  The randomness of where the things are sitting on the screen, as well as the randomness of the objects themselves.  Most of the objects that you search for have no relation to candy whatsoever, they're just random objects.  While the backgrounds are candy themed, the hidden objects don't really belong in the pictures for the most part, and when they are integrated they're nonsensical. To me it seems like the candy theme of this came is just thrown in with no effort.  I'm guessing if the candy theme was pulled off a bit better, I may have enjoyed the game a lot more. As it stands I've played it 3 times, and that's probably it for me.

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Candy In The Media

All this month on the Candy In The Media segment of the Candy Critic blog we're going to look at candy themed games for tablets.  All of the games will be tested on my Nexus 7 tablet running Android Kit Kat.  Keep in mind that I'm not really a gamer, so my past experience is pretty minimal.  I'll mainly be focusing on how easy it is to play, how it incorporates candy, and any tech issues that may come up.  We welcome your suggestions for games you think we should try out on future posts.

This week we're looking at the first candy themed game that I ever downloaded for my tablet, Cut the Rope.  I have to be honest, when I first downloaded Cut the Rope I didn't even know that it was a candy themed game.  I just saw the cute little picture of the monster that eats all the candy and thought he (or she) was really cute.  Fortunately for me the creature was not only really cute, but the game was kind of fun and candy related as well.

The best part of this game for me is the theming.  Most puzzle games have a theme, but it's rarely more or equally clever as the games themselves (unless the games are really, really lame).  I can assure you that the Cut the Rope game is also really clever and fun, but so is the story that follows them.  You're basically trying to feed this little monster that comes in boxes delivered to your doorstep.  You have to complete puzzles that collect stars, and eventually feed the little monster a piece of candy.  The sound effects of the little critter are great, and the look of the game is perfect with the theme.  And the thing that drew me to this game, the cute little monster, is very cute and likable.

The basic design of the game is fairly simple, yet each puzzle varies in difficulty.  I found that the order of each puzzle didn't really reflect the difficulty of the puzzle.  In other words the puzzles didn't really get progressively harder as you move on.  Some of the puzzles at the beginning were very challenging, and some later or were very easy.  I did have a few puzzles were I gave up on trying to collect all the stars, and one that I even used one of the free firefly cheats to win.

As a game I found Cut the Rope to be a lot of fun, and I really enjoyed the way candy was integrated.  Candy wasn't just used as a decoration, but it was part of the storyline.  My biggest problem with this game is the advertising.  It's pervasive, constant, and interrupts game-play a lot.  I have never been so disturbed by advertising while playing a tablet game before.  It's physically impossible to ignore the advertising.

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A Cool Candy Thing

All this week I've been researching the history of M&Ms for Snack Facts (you can check out Snack Facts on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook).  It got me thinking about some of the crazy candy machines I've seen featuring the M&Ms characters.  M&Ms are pretty much the perfect candy for a candy machine, and having such colorful characters that are perfect for decorating those machines makes it even better.  I like this machine because it lets me gamble and win every time.

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This Week In Candy

My friend Leba got this strange looking rock in a bag of M&M's the other day.  Now some people might be disappointed to get something strange in their candy bag, but not Leba.  She bit right into it, and it turns out, it was a tasty bonus.  Do you ever get strange things in your candy?  Would you eat them?

I was looking up candy related board games last night and I was horribly disappointed.  I've discovered that there really aren't any great candy themed games, particularly for adults.  The only game that came up again and again was Candy Land.  While I love the aesthetics of the artwork and design of Candy Land, frankly it's a pretty dull game.  I've decided that I may have to design my own candy themed game, for big kids and adults.

As for what I'm doing this week, lots of writing on my super secret big project.  A few fun blogs about candy things I've discovered, and I may be recording a new episode of the "Junk Fud" Podcast this week.  This week on our "Snack Facts" feed, we'll be featuring Japanese treats and snacks.  If you want to connect with our Snack Facts feeds you can follow it on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

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A Cool Candy Thing

Every single time I play Cut the Rope, my mouth starts to water.  Something about watching that little creature eat the candies is strangely appetizing.  The problem is, after about 20 minutes of playing I start to think that he's had enough.  Then I think about how sick I would be if I ate that much candy, then I get a little nauseous and I stop playing.

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This Week In Candy

This week we're having a fun filled review-a-thon.  It's been a while since our last one, so we figured it was about time.  This week we're going to taste test a whole slew of Ritter Sport bars.  Some of you may not be familiar with them, but in many European countries they're extremely popular.  In fact the photo above was taken at the Ritter Sport museum in Berlin Germany.  Many people who have tried them, don't always realize how many varieties they come in either.  Hopefully this week I'll teach you a little something about this awesome bar, and convince you to sample one of the many varieties available.

A Candy Critic reader Joel has been asking me to return the "Bunny Test" back online for a little while now.  This was a little (very poorly made) game I designed a long time ago.  It took me a while to dig it out of the archives, but it's back online for all to enjoy.

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Stuff I Want To Try

Candy Crush Candies - Dylan's Candy Bar - For a month I was really into this game, eating the candies would finish my addiction. - Click here to learn more about this treat.

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