I have tried downloading this game several times now, with no luck at all.

The download link that you get in your email, links through a click voting site, probably to give the GG site some cash. Well that click link site is offline, so the download does not work, which sucks as this looks like an interesting game.

For info sake, here is what you have to link through: click1.clickrouter.com, in order for the download to work.

They need to think about setting up a different way for the downloads to work, rather than relying on some click voting site.

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Hi Fred, don't know what your talking about re click voting. Most of the giveaways are direct downloads from the giveaway servers with no click voting involved? The click voting deals usually involve Steam keys. Doodle God was an MPC game and did not require any votes, just a direct download.

I am not sure what to say about the playing of this game - strange stuff.

Installation etc. without a problem under Win10, good graphics.

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What a cool game this is! It's unlike anything I've ever played before.

I started out combining things relatively randomly, to see what would happen, but once I got a sense of the game's logic, I started combining things purposefully. I'm surprised, though, at some of the combos. Combining Earth and Life gave me Beasts (among other things), so I tried combining Air and Life to get Birds, but Air + Life gave me nothing at all.

Still, in spite of what seem like some odd gaps, this game is both fun and different. And considering that I've been playing computer games since Hack, in 1987, something I've never played before is very cool!

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Thank you for your feedback Corylea

I downloaded the game to my win 10x64bit laptop. Turned off Norton to install. Started up the game and wow, it's a completely new experience. I created a couple elements, so far quite happy with the game. Outside the box thinking isn't with me today, got some other projects I need to finish but just wanted to say it downloaded and installed successfully. It looks like a fun and challenging game. thank you WR and Playcity!

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Thank you for your feedback Wagashigrrl

After an hour an a half I don't have a feel for this game. Nice graphics, excellent music, but I don't have any clue what to combine.

I created several "elements" like Chaos and Light and Potion, but it was all just trying different combinations of the other elements. When I found a new one, I tried to combine it with all the others, one at a time. Most did nothing. That was fun. Not.

I tried to see if that's all there is to the game. Tried the Hidden Object mode but it said I need to create a Human to unlock it. Ooohh, now I have a purpose, need to create a Human. I tried combining Life with Swamp, Life with Energy, and so on. No human could I find or create after trying every way to combine 2 elements into a pair. Sigh.

I looked in one of the many lists (different arrangements of the elements) and saw a message that it's time to create an artifact. Ok, I went to the Artifact mode and clicked on the right side (lucky guess on my part) and found I need to combine 3 elements. My only clue was it's something that you open. Could be a present, a door, a window, a store, a mind, a chimney flue, a web page, a can of tuna, a bank account... That clue certainly gave me some good direction. Not.

So, I have about 12 elements. Assuming I can combine them in any order, and I can't use any of them more than once, there are 12! / ( 3! * (12-3)! ) combinations. "!" means "Factorial". 3! = 3X2X 1 = 6. I won't calculate 12! and 9!, they are very very large numbers, but here they mostly cancel each other out since 12! / 9! = 12x11x10 = 1320. So there are 1320 / 6 = 220 possible combinations possible. For each one I need to select at least 1 of the three elements I tried before, remove it, select another, click the Submit button and watch it create no artifact. I actually found it more fun to look up how to calculate combinations and do the math above than it was to play this game (check out http://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/discretemathematics/combinations.php )

Yes, you can "buy" hints to help, using mana points, but unless you get a lot of mana points for something that happens in the game, I think you would soon run out of hints. Me, I started with 1000 points and never got any more. Hints are 50, 150, 500 points...

So maybe this game clicks for some people. Need a "Human", ok, just combine "Chaos" with "Life" (or whatever the correct combination is). I don't think that way. To me the game is a simple matter of trying every combination with no guidance as to what can happen. Mixing "Water" and "Earth" could create a Mud element, or a Puppy, or a Shooting Star... I see no way to know. Game needs more of a purpose. Maybe if every combination created something, and you could start combining those however you wanted, it might be fun. As it is, there's only one right way to do things and they're not going to let you in on the secret.

They say there are over 220 elements you can discover. Making an artifact with 3 of them: 1,750,054 combinations are possible. It least the game has a lot of play time.

Anyone else feel the same?

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Thanks Mr Dave, even better than your last one. Another key for you. I must get these keys sorted this week. some have been waiting for several weeks now. :)

I posted this last night, but got the coding wrong, so it was invisible until I noticed that my reply was missing this morning after the giveaway had ended.

Tried Windows 10 x64 Pro, put in player name field, but there's no cursor or kb controls. Task Mgr to kill it. Tried usual stuff like Win 8 compat. No go. Will leave installed in case someone has the fix. Game looks designed for tablet time killer crowd.

I like the game although my imagination is somewhat lacking when trying to make elements. It is a pretty simple game, but I like playing it since I can buy hints. Sometimes things aren't as logical as I would hope when trying to pair elements into something new. Buying hints is the only way that I can move forward, but I think that is the shortcoming of my thought processes more than the game.

I am also getting the pop-up saying that the downloaded file is corrupted and cannot be unpacked. It asks if I want to try a password, where ever that came from. I downloaded it a second time and got the same. I tried opening it with 9zip, peazip, 7zip, and WinOpener, all to the same message. I restarted in the safe mode and had to run the unzip programs in administrator mode for them to run, and I got the same error messages. It doesn't indicate any malware anywhere, just that the download as corrupted. After many years of downloads from this site (for which I am truly grateful), this is the first instance of this problem I have had. I ran a Malwarebytes scan on my system with no malware indicated. I really don't have any idea of what else to try.

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Have you tied temporarily turning off your security? Thousands of community members have downloaded this game so far, so I doubt the file is corrupted, unless it was corrupted via your provider. I had a friend who lived out in the sticks and had to use an old telephone line to connect to the internet, he was rarely able to download anythING AS IT WAS ALWAYS CORRUPTED DUE TO THE BAD CONNECTION.

After two attempts to install - windows 7 ult, copied what comes up in the setup stopped working box

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BEX
Application Name: setup.exe_Doodle God - Fantasy World of Magic
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 2a425e19
Fault Module Name: StackHash_4c0d
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Offset: 80000008
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Data: 00000008
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 4c0d
Additional Information 2: 4c0d4d78887f76d971d5d00f1f20a433
Additional Information 3: 4c0d
Additional Information 4: 4c0d4d78887f76d971d5d00f1f20a433

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Hi Tica

The problem event name BEX indicates you've had a Buffer Overflow Exception. You can find more details on BEX HERE

Stephen, FYI: In your review, you have left in the name of the previous game in the text.

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Thanks, was too tired to check the post this morning.

seems the downloads are a bit slow today again. The title of this game confuses me in a way. I remember doodles being little scribbles and drawings you make while paying attention (or rather pretending to pay attention) during history classes. Anyway, downloading and trying it out and will post a short impression later today. For those however that like this game enough to buy it now that it actually is available and cheaper on Steam (€5,99) assuming it is the same game (which it looks like it is) http://store.steampowered.com/app/348360/Doodle_God/

Boxed message. Set up files are corrupted.
Will try a download once more!

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Hi Beetzme

The files are not corrupted, the games exe file is wrapped in a Themida based code that protects the game from being ripped by hackers, unfortunately this can throw up a message saying the file is corrupted, but really it isn't....... Trouble is, Themida can also be used to hide malware, so some security programs block the installation.

To install the game you can either reboot your computer in safe mode then install, white list the giveaway files then install or temporarily turn off your security while you install the game. The giveaway team have been giving games away virtually every weekend for the past 10 years (and for 18 months every day back in 2006 to 2008) and have never given away a game infected with malware. The giveaway team thoroughly check all files for download to ensure they are safe. They are highly regarded by the major search engines; if they allowed malware to be downloaded they would lose this standing.