Crazy Vector TD experiment

I have to hand it to Justin, this is pretty cool. He banked up is points on level 50 and then filled the map with red towers. His result can be seen here.

If you make a Candystand.com-based video, email me and I will post it!

A trip down Candystand memory lane...

Candystand.com has had a number of looks through the years. To jog your memory, I've posted each of them below. Use the poll-feature to vote for your favorite.

BTW, more new games on Thursday!! Info coming tomorrow.

Candystand 1.0 (1997-2001)

Candystand 2.0 (2001-2004)

Candystand 3.0 (2004-2006)

Candystand 4.0 (2006-present)

4 Game Thursday

I'll spare you the long-winded post today (you're welcome). All four new games are up, click them below to play them.

As always, email me to let me know what you think of them.

Snow Grind

QB Shootout

Field Goal Challenge

Chalkboard Football

Are you ready for some football?

If you read yesterday's post, you're painfully aware that Snow Grind is launching tomorrow morning. In our unending efforts to make you really, really love us -- we're also giving you three new football games tomorrow! Seriously, how much do you love us??

Now, these aren't any old football games... no, no, no. Two of these football games are some of Candystand's most popular games ever -- but they've been gone for two years! You guessed it (maybe), we're bringing back our classic Field Goal Challenge and QB Shootout games.

As many of you know, Wrigley bought Candystand.com from Kraft foods in the summer of 2005 (yay!). At that time, a few of Candystand's classic games were dropped from the site for a variety of reasons. Not only did it bum you guys out, but it bummed all of us out too... QB Shootout has long been a favorite game of the Candystand staff. After two years, these games are coming back and we couldn't be happier.

I did say three games, though... that only accounts for two. Well, we're also bringing a brand new football game to the site called Chalkboard Football. It is a very simple top-down football game that requires you pick a play and time your pass perfectly to march your team down the field.

We also have a big partnership in the works with a pro football team that we'll be announcing shortly.

Check back here at the blog tomorrow for all of the links to the new games as soon as they are posted.

The story behind "Snow Grind"

Exciting news, everybody, we're about to launch our newest game -- Snow Grind. Doesn't it just seem perfect that in the middle of July we'd decide to launch our newest Snowboarding game?? I know, timing has never really been our thing... but there is a good reason!

As most of you know (and if you don't, welcome to the Candystand Blog for the first time!), we've been upgrading and redoing many of our classic games. One of the games on the list to "touch up" is 3D Snowboarding.

3D Snowboarding does have it's charm (the "Missy" in the game is supposed my wife and the "Drew" is one of my best friends from college... and yes, I absolutely know how incredibly lame that is; I'm just trying to be honest!), but we do realize that the game pretty much stinks... and Candystand's Snowboarding games really shouldn't stink.

So, with some help from our friends at Fuel we started from scratch and cranked out what I think is a very solid game called Snow Grind. In Snow Grind, you have to trick your way down the hill and rack up as many style points as possible. It's fun and you'll have it on Thursday.

In other news that's relevant for summer, our new Downhill Skiing will also be done in the next week or so!

Tomorrow, I'll give you a full run-down of all of the games we're launching this week. Block out your Thursday because we have lots of new stuff set to launch!