Candy Crush Saga publisher allegedly contracted a developer to explicitly copy another studio’s game in 2009

While King is throwing around its legal might to go after games like The Banner Saga, an indie studio is claiming that the Candy Crush Saga publisher ripped off its game a few years ago.

In 2009, indie developer Stolen Goose released a Flash title called Scamperghost on MaxGames.com. It has players moving around a little blue guy who wants to eat coins while avoiding ghosts. He can spend his coins to slow down time, and he can kill the ghosts if he eats a power pill. Players rack up more points the longer they avoid the enemies.