candy Crush Saga

candy Crush Saga
Studio	King
Publisher	Activision
Erstveröffent- lichung	Facebook: April 12, 2012 iOS: November 14, 2012 Android: December 14, 2012 Windows Phone: December 12, 2014
platform	Facebook , iOS , Android Windows Phone
genre	puzzle
Game mode	Single player
control	Touchscreen , mouse
medium	Download
language	German (partly), English , Spanish , Portuguese , French , Italian
Current version	iOS: 1.23.1 Android: 1.178.1.1
Age rating	USK

Candy Crush Saga (or Candy Crush for short ) is a puzzle computer game . It can be played online and is available as an app . The app was developed by King Digital Entertainment for Facebook in 2012 and for smartphones in the same year . In 2013, Candy Crush Saga overtook FarmVille 2 as the most-used game on Facebook with around 46 million monthly users.

Gameplay

The game principle is based on Bejeweled and is a typical casual game .

Each level consists of a board filled with different colored candies and obstacles. The sweets include the “red jelly candy”, the “orange lollipop”, the “yellow lemon drop”, the “green chewy candy”, the “blue lollipop piece” and the “purple grape”. The player can collect pairs of candy by moving them horizontally or vertically. Each level requires the player to set a specific objective, which must be completed in a limited number of moves or in a specific time. Some levels also contain obstacles, such as blocks, waffles, meringue or liquorice swirls, chocolates and bombs. So-called boosters can be earned or acquired to support players in the respective levels. The individual levels have different degrees of difficulty , characterized by difficult , super difficult and nightmarishly difficult .

Various extra sweets can be created from combinations of four or five in a certain composition. Below is a "wrapped candy", a "striped candy" and a "color bomb". Special candies can also be put together to produce a specific effect, such as the color bomb, crossed with a striped candy, turning all candy of that color into striped candy, which is then automatically given to the player.

The game is financed through "in-app offers" that can be paid for on Facebook using a credit card, PayPal, voucher or instant transfer. The player begins with five game lives, which are lost if a level is not completed. If the player has no lives left, he can optionally ask a “friend” for new lives, wait (30 minutes per life) until they have “recharged” themselves, change the clock of the mobile device or buy new lives. Boosters can also be purchased on Facebook.

Candy Crush Soda Saga

In addition to Candy Crush Saga, there is the further development Candy Crush Soda Saga . In contrast to Candy Crush Saga, there are some extensions, for example:

• Fish: Generated from a 2 × 2 match. When activated, the fish first eats candies with jelly, otherwise it looks for a random candy and removes it.
• Color takeover: Generated from a match with at least six candies. Replaces the color combined with it with its own color. Example: A color acceptor is created from six green candies. This is combined with a neighboring orange candy. This will turn all orange candies green.
• New level objective "Find all bears!": There are blue-green gummy bears of different sizes hidden under a layer of ice. They must be freed by playing matches over the ice . A bear is found when the ice covering it has been completely removed.

Initially, Candy Crush Soda Saga lacked the “daily reward”, a wheel of fortune with which various boosters could be obtained. This “daily reward” has now been added through an update.

characters

• Tiffi (short for "Toffette") is the main character in the game. She is a blonde girl with pigtails and is playable from the first chapter.
• Mr. Toffee is a tall man with orange hair. He helps players at the beginning of the game and guides them through the tutorial .
• The Easter Bunny is a rabbit that introduces players to the candy order level.
• Odus is a blue owl who is part of the dream world of Candy Crush Saga . Odus sits on a crescent moon-shaped scale, which tilts in the appropriate direction depending on the candy removed. If too much of the respective candy is removed, Odus falls down and the level is lost. If enough sweets of the specified color have been removed, Odus flies away for a short time and the corresponding sweets explode. All figures, except Odus, are not really relevant to the game.

reception

• Candy Crush Saga was downloaded over 10 million times in December 2012.
• Candy Crush Saga has been "liked" over 60 million times on the official site.
• The game appears in Psy's music video Gentleman .
• Candy Crush Saga gained media attention in Hong Kong . The game has been reported to be played by one in seven Hong Kong residents.
• In July 2013, Candy Crush Saga had over 6.7 million active users. The game grossed approximately $ 633,000 a day in the US App Store alone .
• In October 2013, Candy Crush Saga was the third most popular app with the highest sales on the Google Play Store.
• In November 2013, the game was installed over 500 million times on Facebook and Android devices.
• In December 2013, King.com aired its game advert on Japanese television. Because of these advertisements, the game ranked first from a position outside of the top 100 most downloaded apps in the first week of December 2013. On Android, the game, starting at number 83, reached 23rd place in the category of the most downloaded apps.

The review aggregator Metacritic gives Candy Crush Saga a total score of 79/100 points and thus a rather positive rating. The game was named Video Game of the Year 2013 by Ellie Gibson from Eurogamer.de .

additional

• In 2014, it became known in France that the incumbent Minister of Economic Affairs, Arnaud Montebourg, is an avid candy crush player. He had reached level 103. This led to criticism.
• In December 2018, the politician Jörg Leichtfried accused that Chancellor Sebastian Kurz was playing Candy Crush on his mobile phone during a debate in the Austrian National Council instead of following the debate.

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Business Report Tech Chronicles . In: San Francisco Chronicle , March 28, 2013, p. C2.
2. ↑ Application Analytics for Facebook, iOS and Android . AppData. Retrieved April 27, 2013.
3. ↑ Joachim Friedmann: Storytelling: Introduction to Theory and Practice of Narrative Design . UTB, 2019, ISBN 978-3-8252-5237-3 , pp. 43 ff . ( google.de [accessed on May 19, 2020]).
4. ^ Sugar Coma . In: Slate . Retrieved January 24, 2014.
5. ↑ Victoria Woollaston: Candy Crush Saga soars above Angry Birds to become WORLD'S most popular game . In: Daily Mail . Associated Newspapers Ltd. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
6. ^ Brian Ashcraft: Is PSY's "Gentleman" Video Just a Giant Commercial? . Kotaku.com. April 17, 2013. Retrieved April 27, 2013.
7. ↑ Chris Buffa: Candy Crush Saga: Played By Every Seventh Person In Hong Kong Daily . In: Modojo . 
8. ↑ Joe White: Freemium App Candy Crush Saga Earns A Record-Breaking $ 633,000 Each Day . AppAdvice. July 9, 2013. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
9. ^ Andrew Webster: Half a billion people have installed 'Candy Crush Saga' . In: The Verge . Vox Media . November 15, 2013. Retrieved November 18, 2013.
10. ↑ Jeffrey Grubb: King is running TV commercials for Candy Crush in Japan, and they're working . In: GamesBeat . VentureBeat . December 6, 2013. Retrieved December 7, 2013.
11. ↑ Candy Crush Saga for iPhone / iPad Reviews . In: Metacritic . CBS Interactive . Retrieved January 22, 2014.
12. ^ Ellie Gibson: Games of 2013: Candy Crush Saga . In: Eurogamer . Gamer Network. December 24, 2013. Retrieved January 22, 2014.
13. ↑ Arnaud Montebourg accro à Candy Crush . In: FIGARO . March 18, 2014 ( lefigaro.fr [accessed October 16, 2018]).
14. ↑ Accusation against Chancellor Sebastian Kurz: "Is that Candy Crush?" In: NOZ . December 14, 2018 ( noz.de [accessed December 22, 2018]).