Doodle Slingshot

How to play Doodle Slingshot

Doodle Slingshot is a physics drawing game where you make your own ammunition. Grumpy green blobs have built wobbly towers out of planks, stone and ice. Instead of picking from a fixed set of birds or balls, you draw the projectile yourself, load it into the slingshot and send it flying. What you draw decides how it flies and how hard it hits.

1. Draw a shape inside the blue box above the slingshot. Close the outline to make a solid object.
2. Press on the slingshot, drag backwards and watch the dotted line to aim.
3. Let go to fire. Your doodle flies, bounces, rolls and smashes into the towers.
4. When everything stops moving, fire again: keep the same shape or draw a new one.
5. Knock out every blob within three shots to win the level.

Tips and strategy

• Round and filled hits hardest. A circle encloses the most area for the ink you spend, so a fat round blob is the heaviest thing you can draw. Use it against stone.
• Thin rods are light. An open line becomes a stick. It is quick to draw but carries little weight, so save it for poking a single blob off a ledge.
• Hit low, not high. Knock out the bottom posts and the whole tower falls on the blobs inside. The falling planks do the work for you.
• Use the arc. Pull down and back to lob your shape high over walls and cliffs, or pull straight back for a flat, fast shot across the ground.
• A fall is a knockout. Blobs on high platforms only need a push. If they tumble off and land hard, they are out.
• Watch where it settles. Between shots the level keeps its damage. Plan your second shot around the pieces that are still standing.

Twelve levels of crumbling towers

The first levels teach you the basics with a single blob behind a crate and a simple wooden hut. Soon you are toppling two-storey towers, lobbing shots over a rock pillar and picking blobs off high cliffs. Later levels add tall three-floor towers, heavy stone walls that need a big drawing to move, two platforms at different heights and a fortress where every shot has to count. The last level mixes ice huts, wooden huts and a stone-roofed lookout, so you will need to think about which shape to draw for each target.

Why drawing the ammo makes it more fun

Classic slingshot games, often searched for as an angry bird drawing game, give you a fixed line-up of projectiles. Here the projectile is whatever you can imagine and fit inside the ink bar: a heavy boulder, a long thin plank, a triangle that tumbles end over end or a lumpy potato. Every shape has its own weight and spin, so you are constantly experimenting. It is a playful way to feel how mass, speed and angle work together, and no two players solve a level with exactly the same doodle.

What you learn while you play

Every shot is a tiny physics experiment. You see that a projectile launched at a steeper angle flies higher but lands sooner, that doubling the size of a round shape makes it far heavier, and that a tall tower falls over when its base is pushed rather than its top. Because the slingshot always launches at the same speed for the same pull, the only thing that changes the impact is the mass of what you drew. Kids and adults alike start to predict where a shot will land after a few tries, and the three-star goal rewards careful planning over random flinging.

More physics drawing games

Want more drawings that come to life? Arm your cart with a hand-drawn lance in Draw Joust, build a crossing with one line in Draw the Bridge, or bring two balls together in the calm brain teaser Draw Puzzle.