By John Walker on June 24th, 2010 at 2:31 am.
Want to know why I haven’t gone to bed? It’s because of DeliriumWartner, and his recommending Doodle God. Which has nothing to do with doodling. It does instead have an awful lot to do with being godly. You’re given just four elements, earth, wind, fire and water, and by combining them the aim is to create 115. Which involves an awful lot of combining.
It’s done with a fair dose of wit. Each combination comes with a quote, but more interesting is what the combinations create. Golem + Energy = Human. Human + Energy = Wizard. These are calculations we know to be truths.
It’s nicely put together – you can click on the icons, or even drag them on top of one another. But of course it does eventually devolve into randomly combining everything on everything. Despite this, it’s still amazingly rewarding when you find a match.
And I want to keep going, despite being so very, very tired.
DAMN YOU! My night is lost.
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Damn it, I was going to play Duels of the Planeswalker tonight.
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Nope. Not going to play this. Only just stopped playing Transformice after about five hours. Bed for me.
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Most combinations do nothing, so it’s rapidly an unentertaining slog of random trial and error, at least for me.
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…after a little bit… yeah. Unfortunate.
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Between the hint function and a fair amount of patience, I didn’t have to do too much trial and error. Took a while, though.
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Sure is random clickin’.
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That ‘HALLELUJAH’ can fuck right off at 3:30 in the morning. So can me bothering to click the mute button in the corner.
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Wizard + Warrior = Wizard + Worm
Some amusing combination possible. Got bored around 75 elements though, wasn’t getting many intuitively, random clicking was a drag and the hint system takes way too long for people who just want to see the combinations dammit.
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Pointless and awesome. My two favorite things.
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this is hard!
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Only a horrible game doesn’t let me combine dragon with dragon to create double dragon.
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Sir, you are a Goddamn genius.
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This game is clearly bunk. I mean, how can dinosaur + lightning not equal anything at all, let alone something completely awesome?
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This isn’t new… and isn’t like this game… so I dunno why I’m mentioning it here, I guess maybe because I was just playing… but I don’t think it’s been posted here… Do post about it here!
http://gubcards.com/
It’s an indie card game. With physical cards (no collectible booster pack stuff, just a specific deck that everyone draws from, though you can combine more than one deck if you want to double the length of a match). But you can try a demo before you buy a deck. And that demo is a PC game with you versus two AI opponents. Creative! It’s really fun. I want to buy a deck or two now. Such a charming creation story as well. And cute testimonials from little or not so little fans.
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I don’t know why you mentioned this game either, unless it’s an ad placement. It really has absolutely no relation to this game whatsoever. To top it off, the game’s terrible. Victory or defeat depends almost entirely on who has the ‘take all an opponent’s scoring cards’ cards or draws the ‘all your cards in play are discarded’ event near the end of the game, which is pure chance. Take your cute little endorsements elsewhere.
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I think the biggest problem is that half the time you don’t know what you’re shooting for. When you know what is available it’s usually not too hard to figure out. Otherwise it’s complete random guessing, which isn’t fun.
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Wow, I clicked without reading the blurb and I thought I was in the tutorial. I came back here to complain that it was taking a long time to get to the actual game, where I assumed I’d actually use these summonable items in some sort of gameplay.
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Hah, sorry John, sorry guys.
My fav was man + dinosaur = dinosaur plus blood. The hunter doesn’t fair much better either.
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How the hell do you get thunderbird? :(
My game has resorted to random clicking with the odd moment of inspired guesswork.
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Ah, just worked my way up to thunderbird, going to have a go at finding dragon and dinosaur now.
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If you find dinosaur, I can tell you how to find dragon :-)
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all the fun of being stuck in an adventure game without any of the plot or humour
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I stubbornly finished this. What a waste of time!
Most of these ended up with me facepalming in their/my combined stupidy.
Water + Wood = Boat . . . that’s fine.
Boat + Wood = Ship!
OF COURSE! To make a bigger boat, lets just put more wood on it. /facepalm.
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Boat + Wood = Ship makes perfect sense to me. This game is a classic example of different people thinking in different ways… I still haven’t found the dragon or dinosaur but have found plankton and whale.
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The one thing i think they should have done would have been Corpse + Electricty = Frankenstein’s Monster. Missed a good one there
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I’m restraining myself from clicking that link. I want to play it SO BAD, but i know i’ll just spend countless hours on it and i can’t 8(
Anyway, did an awesome social experiment: sent it last night at midnight to a friend who has (quite a few) compulsive disorders. Just opened up my email with the following message
“12:30 – I HATE YOU!!!
05:07 – I finished your damn game. Now i can go to bed”
that’s a total kickass game.
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i clicked 8(
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There’s got to be something wrong with a game that makes me want to cry a little every time I find something new and realise I have to check it against all the others.
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Doodle-God damn you all hell hell. Just finished the game. I want my five hours back.
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*to
Can we pleeeease have an edit function?
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Human + Human ?
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You are a horrible person, John Walker.
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Managed to get all kinds of obscure things..yet for the life of me can’t make trees/wood.
Demigod? Werewolf? Yet I can’t even grow a simple tree? Something wrong there.
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Kits: If you have seeds you can grow a tree in the earth. But you need tools to cut it down.
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Nope, no seeds either. I’ll get there eventually..when I finish making things like ghouls and assassin’s…
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seeds are very siple, i can tell you
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I refuse to believe that Sex + Bricks doesn’t result in something new and fascinating.
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Does sex + dragon? No? DAMN.
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New Element Created: A+E Dept.
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strangely, that works for sex+ bricks AND sex+ dragon.
Bricks+ Dragon just gives you either a very angry dragon or an unstoppable flying fortress.
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They should at least have some indicator to show you when you are done with an element. Anything to reduce the amount of randomly clicking around.
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For those iterested (I’m not), there’s a clone for mobile phones. On Android, it’s called “Alchemy”.
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never got seeds or golems or anything like that, but got dragon and pheonix
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Also, if storm + bird = thunderbird, why is fire + beast not Firefox?
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For seeds you need to combine sand and life.
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The final one I got was beer.
This is probably a Sign.
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More criticism: The hint system in this game is rotten. When I need a hint that means that I am at a dead end. So obviously the hint system should show me something that is not another dead end…
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will someone just tell me how to make the dragon?!
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fire+ dinosaur.
If you have no dinosaur it’s egg+ earth.
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Good god, do not play this game immediately before going to bed. My quasi-dream/waking state this morning was an endless nightmare of [blank] + [blank] = [blank].
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Oh, there is a ‘reaction list’ here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/lv?key=t-8d7fmkG_sXUgOTOPa7Rqg&toomany=true . Yes, I’ve cheated happily.
Also, this somehow reminds me of the ‘grow’ games.. just less fun. If only it’d show you which combinations you’d already tried (by greying out the icons from the selected ‘element’ opposite the icon you’ve selected).. it’d be much more bearable.
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Dammit, I have my Biology finals tomorrow. All I’m gonna be able to answer with are examples like Human + Beast = Domesticated Animal etc
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golem is life plus ground
try golem plus life for human and once you get human youll get a lot of other stuff
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Finishing it was made much more enjoyable through having SO playing it at the same time on her copmuter . . . we got to about 85 each or so before running through the ones the other didn’t have and trying to remember how the hell we got them.
The divergence in what we individually had at that point was surprisingly significant, and it wasn’t just based on one or two “chains” that we’d missed starting points on. Differences in thought process / interests were self evident as well (arts graduate here, engineer there) . . . all in all I found it cleverly thought out and entertaining despite the cumbersome click prolongation.
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You can pull up a list of the reactions you’ve already found, and what it takes to make it.
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Torgen: but when you have too many reactions, the oldest ones are getting deleted.
I can’t use human + human nay more:-(
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what the fuck is the point of that games it took me 8.5 hours and for wot it was not fun it was not entertaining and it was not educational
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Then why did you play it for 8.5 hours?
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@Jezebeau, lol, your paranoia has no bounds… I’ve been posting here for months at least, you’d think I’d have advertised this earlier if I really had any relation to its development, other than simply recently discovering and loving the hell out of it. Your experience of the gameplay sounds like that of a jaded old cynic as well. Perhaps you’re related to the game advertised here so you feel someone wanted to steal your success (lolz, paranoida is cool guyz) and you bash them with words of little substance? Gubs is a game of wit and luck, as it claims to be, so yes, a lucky card draw can win you the match, much like in any card game out there, but there’s also some room for your strategy to help you win or diminish the effects of others’ luck. You can also customise the rules so that the more random elements are minimised or excluded altogether if they’re not your cup of tea.
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human+human=sex lol
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Oh, there is a ‘reaction list’ here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/lv?key=t-8d7fmkG_sXUgOTOPa7Rqg&toomany=true . i just found that out when i just finished the game…. XD
/.facepalm
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As I was working my way through to the end of this gamelet, it occurred to me that what this is, really, is no more than a nicely-presented trial-and-error exploration of the Civilization tech tree.
It’s got a bit more internal complexity than Civ’s tech tree, true. On the other hand, it dispenses entirely with the whole “doing things with the technologies you’ve discovered” bit.
In theory, this shouldn’t be fun at all. And yet I was up until three-ish, and then spent more time this afternoon feverishly working out every combination I could think of while giggling like an idiot at combinations like “vampire” + “human” = “vampire” + “vampire” and “dragon” + “hunter” = “dragon” + “ash”.
Why?
Would adding more game-like gameplay (as hinted at) really make this game better/more fun, or just destroy its simple charm as a nice little diversion?
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wizard + mushroom does not equal magic mushroom
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OH MY GOD ! 3 hours later I finished this damned game … And it’s only 11 in the morning, so you can imagine that it was my morning buzz … LOL.
But it’s okay, I enjoyed it even it was stressing / freaking me out in all the possible ways !
Some combinations are pretty funny … Hahaha.
Boat + Wood = SHIP ! (Hahahaha, totally sense :9)
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Why does human + cigarette not equal cancer?
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life + corpse was too good to pass
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1st, how do you get a bird again? and 2nd, i got a treant by adding life and tree
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Egg + air = bird :-)
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how do you get paper?
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Thank you! Been looking for an Android version.
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Unbelievable! I had to buy it just to see what it was and it’s … boring! We are struggling to penetrate the App Store noise with a FREE word puzzle game called Crossnerd LT, spending two hours a day making Daily Challenges and people seems not even to know that it exists!! Life is so unfair! : O
Seriously, how many of you think Doodle God is better than Crossnerd?
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I do.
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okay i just beat it and was rewarded with disappointment, an attempt to hype the sequal, and an ad for an iphone app.
a winnar is me
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big giant WINK
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Ok how the hell does sex+weapon not equal rape?
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lol
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i got thunderbird by combinging bird+electricity
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lol mine 2!!
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how come its not working hut + bricks = house/mansion?? @_@
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oh my fault.. bricks + concrete = house
ship + human = sailor?
ship + hunter = pirate?
airplane + human = pilot?
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Pirate = alcoholic + ship
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I can’t believe that sex and fire doesn’t give you the Kings of Leon
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Why doesn’t sand + storm = sandstorm????
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they should have terrorist/suicide bombers + plane = hijack
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or meat + bread = sandwhich.
& you cant even use the milk to make cheese.lol
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cheese = milk + bacteria
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Why doesn’t wizard plus sex = magic sex???
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The game works much, much better on the iPhone/iPod Touch – easier to control by touch / drag / etc than with the mouse.
However, after the first episode, it all kinda goes to hell – the 1st episode combinations technically might make sense. 2nd episode… hmm, not as much, but still workable. 3rd episode though is totally wrong – the “elements” are really obscure, and even when you know them already, the combinations are almost impossible to guess (as they make no bloody sense whatsoever…).
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Astronaut + alien = alien + alien
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how do you make magic
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This game is terrible. Precisely because I felt compelled to play for a couple of hours and it was primarily due to irrational escalation of commitment and not because of any kind of enjoyment. I was convinced the game had to eventually go somewhere with all of this useless crap, because there is no way it would draw any kind of positive reaction otherwise.
No. It didn’t. It just sucked until I managed to pry myself away from compulsively clicking. I demand a refund of my time.
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