About Doodle World:
It’s been years since my first encounter with the game Doodle God at Kongregate, a lovely and brilliantly creative casual flash game. The game was initially released for iPhone/iPod Touch, then kept being adapted for various platforms, until it finally arrived to Steam. It makes me feel kinda nostalgic, heck, even old, seeing this particular game here. Well, congratulations, Joy Bits! From humble beginnings, to eventual glory you have come! You know something is particularly good when you see it through platforms. The game is astonishingly simple: you are the God of the Doodle Universe, and one day, you get bored of your unused omnipotence. You decide to create four basic hermetic elements: air, water, fire and earth. But looking around, you still find the place to be quite desolate, and come up with a brilliant idea: what if you were to combine these basic elements to create new ones? And thereon, your journey to populate the earth with various creatures, inventions, phenomenon and even notions begin. All so simple, right? Well, it starts simple enough, but you’ll have four distinct chapters in the game, which will eventually accumulate to 249 elements to discover! Phew! Some of the combinations you’ll come up with, are elementary and quite obvious. But as the game progresses, it forces you to think for the abstract, or even absurd. All combinations make some kind of sense, but the kind it would make sense is sometimes open to criticism. After a while, you’ll find yourself thinking through puns and farces; and then you’ll know that you are getting to the interesting part.
