Doodle Sky Jump

How to play Doodle Sky Jump

Doodle Sky Jump is an endless doodle draw jumping game. A little yellow doodle bounces up a sheet of notebook paper, and the only thing standing between it and a long fall is your pen. Every line you draw becomes a springy trampoline. Land the doodle on it and it shoots upwards about four metres. Keep drawing, keep bouncing, and see how high you can climb before you miss.

1. Press Play. The doodle bounces off the grass at the bottom of the page.
2. Draw a short line under the doodle with your mouse or finger. When it falls onto the line, it bounces up.
3. Steer left and right with ← → or A / D, or the ◀ ▶ buttons on a touch screen. Leaving one side of the page brings you back on the other.
4. Bounce on clouds when you can, grab stars, and stomp monsters by landing on top of them.
5. If the doodle drops below the bottom of the screen, the run is over. Share your score and try again.

The rules of the ink

Your lines are powerful, so they come with three limits. First, each line snaps after a single bounce: you can't build a staircase and walk up it. Second, only two lines exist at a time; drawing a third breaks the oldest. Third, lines cost ink, shown in the bar at the top. The ink refills quickly, but a long scribble can leave you empty at the worst moment. The maximum length of a single line also shrinks slowly as you climb into thinner air.

The angle of a line matters. A flat line sends the doodle straight up. A line that slopes down to the right throws it to the right, and the steeper the slope, the bigger the sideways kick. That is the real skill of the game: using tilted lines to swing towards a star, around a monster or back under a cloud.

Tips for a higher score

• Draw while the doodle is rising. You have about half a second at the top of each jump. Use it to place the next line instead of waiting until it is already falling.
• Keep lines short. A line just wider than the doodle is enough, and it saves ink for emergencies.
• Use clouds to rest. White clouds are free bounces. Blue clouds slide sideways, spring clouds launch you extra high, and dashed brown clouds crumble the moment you land, so don't trust them.
• Stomp, don't bump. Monsters die if you land on them from above (10 points) but knock you out if you hit them from the side or below. A tilted line can steer you over one.
• Fight the wind. Higher up, blue bands of wind push you sideways. Hold the opposite direction or draw lines tilted against the wind.
• Catch rockets. A red rocket carries you up a long way and smashes through monsters on the way.

Why a drawing jumper is so addictive

Endless jumpers are a classic one-more-go genre: the controls are simple, every run is different, and there is always a number to beat. Doodle Sky Jump adds a creative twist, because you build the path yourself, one line at a time. It trains quick decisions and hand-eye coordination: you watch the doodle, predict where it will fall and draw in the right place at the right moment, all while steering. Early on the page is full of clouds and you only need a few lines. Past 100 metres clouds become rare, monsters and wind appear and nearly every bounce depends on your pen. A run to 300 metres is a real achievement.

The difficulty climbs smoothly with height, so a new player and an expert both get a fair challenge. Your best height stays marked on the paper as a dashed pink line, which turns every run into a race against your own record.

More drawing games to try

Love drawing lines that come to life? Try Draw the Bridge to build bridges for a car, flap through pipes with a bird you drew yourself in Doodle Flappy, or ride your own track in Draw Rider.