Randy Candy [GAME MOCKUP]

You wake up to the sound of a small hand curiously tapping on a window. The sunlight blinds your eyes, and you attempt to shield your face with your... candy wrapper? You are Randy Candy, confectionery given life. You find yourself trapped in an old lady's house. Shouldn't you be somewhere else? Surely, the purpose of candy is to satisfy someone's sweet tooth... And so, your quest begins.

Peril Around Every Corner

Even the smallest house can be a giant threat if you're the size of a single cent. Ants want a bite of your sugary insides. Dust Motes seem hell-bent on dooming you to inedibility. Hair Knights attempt to cut up your wrapper with forceful swings of long-lost hair clips. And you could swear that a giant beast with hungry eyes prowls the shadows when you're not looking...

A Flavor to Match Every Taste

Find and combine a variety of candy wrappers and candy cores to help you navigate moldy basements, messy bathrooms and murderous foes. Glide through the air with the floaty wrapper, let the heavy wrapper protect you from environmental damage, or simply go fast with the slick wrapper. Give foes a firey surprise with a spicy candy core, boost your health with natural herbs, or bite back with a... poisoned candy core?! Surely, that has to be a manufacturing error...

Reveal Dark Secrets... If You Dare

Along your journey, worn photos and scattered notes hint at mysteries yet to be unearthed. Who used to live in this house? Where did they go? Do you even want to know? You'll also encounter a scarce few allies, that might be willing to share some of their knowledge and assistance in exchange for a favor or two. Surely, Randall Candle seems like a trustworthy sort?

Randy Candy is a top-down metroidvania with a sugary sweet exterior, and a rotten core that reveals itself to those who dig deep enough. It's recommended for fans of games like Death's Door, Hollow Knight, Tinykin, or Marble Madness.

Download the .rar file for a few additional sketches not shown on the itch page!

[Created for Hairic Lilred's 2023 Game Mockup jam. The rough concept for this game, the concept sketches presented on the page, as well as a few elements in the mockup screenshots (Randy in screenshot #2; Randy, Dust Motes & Dust Mother in screenshot #3) existed prior to the jam. Everything else was hurriedly thrown together over the span of two evenings.

Derivative work of this game concept may not be created without my permission. I would be highly interested in seeing this idea brought to life though, so feel free to contact me if you feel the same way.]