And you thought Harry Potter was the only one who indulged in magical dueling! Tragnarion Studios has announced Doodle Hex for the Nintendo DS, a game designed exclusively for the handheld. It will feature both single and multiplayer gaming and will utilize the touch screen and dual screens perfectly.
Doodle Hex Overview:
- Doodle Hex is a game of magical dueling where aspiring “Doodlers” compete head-to-head for fun and glory. Two “Doodlers” fight by drawing runes onto the DS touch screen, in real time, to create great and fun spells to inflict on their opponent, such as blasts of fire or curses that shake the opponent’s screens, turn their own spells back on them and even turn them into a frog!
Speed of thought, tactical choices and precise drawing of simple shapes are all important to progress through the game and succeed in Doodle Hex. Completing tournaments and challenges in the puzzle mode of the game unlocks further runes and spells, allowing players to collect runes to create their own customized spell book. With over 200 runes to collect and swap with friends over Wi-Fi, Doodle Hex offers over 100 hours of gameplay to budding magicians.
Carl Jones is the head of Tragnarion Studios. He commented, “Like classic fighting and puzzle games, Doodle Hex offers a rewarding single player experience and the fun increases massively when dueling against other people. We are excited with how Doodle Hex is coming together, the game looks incredible on the DS, is really addictive and the work our team have done on the characters and art style is amazing. We’re showing some examples of this work on our teaser site doodlehex.com, where you can see the doodlers Cassie, Strat, Fey and Kaleb, for now, but we’ll be putting a lot more content up there after we take Doodle Hex to the Leipzig Game Convention.”
Doodle Hex is expected to release for the Nintendo DS in the first quarter of 2008. Tragnarion Studios will showcase the game at the Games Convention in Leipzig. One more fun game for the DS, I wouldn’t be surprised if they bring it out for the Nintendo Wii also.