Doodle Jump
A simple iPhone game about a little doodle figure that... jumps.
Described by the authors Lima Sky as "Insanely Addictive", and not given much description beyond that.
For a game character that doesn't really do anything beside jump and shoot the occasional pellet, Doodle the Doodler ("Doodle" hereby used as a name rather then description) really gets around. The game has been featured on Big Bang Theory, CBS Evening News, Pocket God and many other places.
Tropes used in Doodle Jump include:
- Bottomless Pit: The bottom of the screen is always one. You can also fall through the occasional "hole" in the background.
- Collision Damage: Averted if you Goomba Stomp the monsters.
- Crossover: With Pocket God, The Creeps and many others.
- Don't Look Back: The platforms stop existing as soon as they fall out of view. Thus, if you try to jump down to get a power-up you missed then there is nothing to land on - you will fall to your death.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The doodle jumps.
- Fake Platform: Jump on a broken platform and you simply fall through it.
- Follow the Leader: Browse the appstore for a while, looking for games. Take a shot for every game that takes a cue from Doodle Jump.
- Jet Pack: There's also a propeller beanie.
- No Plot, No Problem
- One-Hit-Point Wonder: If anything happens to you, you die. Period.
- Platform Game: It's all about little platforms rapidly passing by.
- Ratchet Scrolling: Upwards.
- Sound-Coded for Your Convenience: The player can hear the monsters' growls before they appear on the screen.