The world we live in is flawed in oh-so-many ways; the rich get richer, the poor get poorer,
there is a direct correlation between the idiocy with which a person drives and their utter necessity to drive in the left lane, Paris Hilton is still considered “newsworthy”, and, somewhere in this world, Nicholas Cage is still making movies.
Do you ever find yourself contemplating the differences (a.k.a. improvements) that might exist in the world if you had the chance to “play god”? (I.e. a world that never had to experience Gigli) Would you be benevolent? Or would you reign down sweet justice upon every douche, jerk or pre-pubescent teenager with an undeserved sense of self worth on World of Warcraft? (Yeah, I thought so, me too.) Tempted by the opportunity to see what it might be like to be “bad” for a change?
The belief in an all-powerful being of pure good assumes the existence of his counterpart: a devil of pure evil. Do you ever wish you had the chance to “play devil”? Doodle Devil is a uniquely contemplative puzzle game that provides the means to experiment with “bad” more than a college freshman at their first kegger.
In the beginning, it started with mankind and an apple; the result of which was Sin. Set on an ethereal plain reminiscent of a cosmic Scrabble board, Doodle Devil, like it’s predecessor, Doodle God, provides you the opportunity to play god (or devil) through divine experimentation.
Mix the basic elements of the universe and life together to bring new horrific, or benevolent, elements into existence. Combine various elements to create zombies, demons, werewolves, frankenstein, envy, lust, sloth, gluttony, nuclear weapons, suffering, diseases, and worst of all, politicians.
Doodle Devil, as well as Doodle God, is one of the most unique approaches to a puzzle game I’ve ever encountered. It’s a new twist on puzzles where the tools are definitely in front of you, but the answers are out amongst reality. It challenges your understanding of the basic relationships in the world between good and evil, water and fire, society and chaos and how one forms and flows from another. Create 100 new elements to triumph in the battle of Good v. Evil, but trust, me, while that might initially seem like a “no-brainer”, you’ll be begging for the hint countdown the expire so elleviate your diety-sized frustration.
But it’s not without it’s appropriate entertainment value (it is, after all, still a game). While I would have expected to see such successful combination as Politician + Money = Evil or Man + Woman = Man + Suffering, some of my favorites were Demon + Mechanism = TV, Money + Sex or Mechanism + Sex, both of which equal Censored, and, of course, my number one favorite: Woman + Fire = Suffering + Corpse.
Don’t forget to check out the witty commentary with each match, like Wrath + Food’s “A hangover is the wrath of grapes” or Demon + Order’s “Only one thing is impossible for God: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet - Mark Twain.”
More interested in the benevolent side of “Be a Diety for a Day Day”? Try Doodle God.