Doodle Madness: Shattered Memories

***Doodle Madness: Shattered Memories*** is a 2D Exploration Comedy-Focused, Combat Platformer developed by Coffee Bean Games, Wayforward and published by Coffee Bean Games, it is the first entry in the Doodle Madness game series!

The game takes many inspirations from the games released on 4th, 5th, 6th and 8th gen of consoles, mixed with chaotic platforming, semi-exploration, combat mechanics and even weapons.

## Gameplay

The gameplay for **Doodle Madness: Shattered Memories'** is an exploration platformer, with the emphasis of having combat, weapons power ups and transformations into the mix, the levels in the game are semi-exploration where you can explore whatever you want to do, going from point a to point b, there are even going to be metroidvania style levels too, the player can also drive vehicles in certain levels that are required like a mini sized mech and even hop on a snowboard when sliding down the snowy mountains, and the player can also enter old fashion CRT TVs to access secret areas in the style of an NES game.

The main goal in the game is to simply save everyone's memories and each of the boss levels at the end of that location would be the ones that are hypnotised by one of Xander's crew, eventually if you finish that boss in the world, you can then move onto the next location afterwards.

## The Story Synopsis

*People's memories are suddenly getting stolen from a so called "King of the Space Pirates" named Lord Commander Xander, along with his crewmates, they are planning to build a machine capable on stealing more of people’s memories and hypnotizing all of them so they can use it to not only rule the whole world, but even worse...? The entire universe itself!*

*To stop this mess once and for all, a group of ragtag bunch of misfits must journey throughout the whole country and beyond to fix everyone's memories to save everything, the universe and even their home at all costs before everything goes memory-whipped forever, being able to stop this pirate menace.*

## Development

With the growing genre of 2D platformers making a come back like the New Super Mario Bros. series and Shantae: Risky's Revenge on DSiWare, a brand new studio was fully formed in the name of "Coffee Bean Games" the studio is filled with a passionate team that knows how to create video games, when the company was formed in 2009, there were trademarks like "Doodle Madness: Blender Filled with Memories" and "Doodle Madness: Memories Alike", but the one name that has stuck out being trademarked was "Doodle Madness: Shattered Memories".

### Announcement

During E3 2010, this game was finally announced as "Doodle Madness: Shattered Memories", which was the name that was fully rumored before, in the game's reveal, it is a 2D Exploration, Action-Adventure platformer that features 15 Worlds with over 90+ levels to explore, 15 characters to play as, many different boss fights to battle and hub worlds to explore, and it has given a release date of Fall 2011.

## Characters

### Playable Characters

*Main article: List of Playable Characters in Doodle Madness: Shattered Memories*
### Non-Playable Characters

*Main article: List of Non-Playable Characters in Doodle Madness: Shattered Memories*
### Villains

*Main article: List of Villains in Doodle Madness: Shattered Memories*

## Levels

*Main article: List of Levels in Doodle Madness: Shattered Memories*
## Transformations

*Main article: List of Transformations in Doodle Madness: Shattered Memories*
## Weapons

*Main article: List of Weapons in Doodle Madness: Shattered Memories*
## Raise The Ranks

*Main article: Raise The Ranks*
Judging on how you would start attacking enemies multiple times, You would gain rankings if you time the attacks just right to get the right combo's.

* P = Platinum Crazy!!!
* SSS = Supreme Slapping Style!!!
* SS = Super Spicy!!
* S = Spectacular!
* A = Amazing!/Awesome!
* B = Badass!
* C = Crazy!
* D = Deadly!

## Costumes

*Main article: List of Costumes in Doodle Madness: Shattered Memories*
## Abilities

*Main article: List of Abilities in Doodle Madness: Shattered Memories*
## Game Soundtrack

*Main article: Doodle Madness: Shattered Memories - The Original Soundtrack*

## Doodle Madness: Side-Stories

Doodle Madness: Shattered Memories has gotten content updates that features characters that we have seen and not seen before, it is called "Doodle Madness: Side-Stories", the new characters that was featured in the Side-Stories DLC were featured in the game's sequel, Doodle Madness 2: Time Disasters!

*Main article: Doodle Madness: A Tropical Island Adventure*
In this first content update, it immediately take place after the events of Shattered Memories a few days later after the Epilogue, since after the main adventure, Johnathan and his friends are (unexpectedly) invited over to a tropical resort in Hawaii!

But as they have arrived in Hawaii, Johnathan has suddenly heard a strange and beautiful voice that only he can hear that is somewhere in the island itself, and he must venture alone to the source of the voice.

*Main article: Doodle Madness: A Cinema Disaster*
The second side-stories update where it takes place before the events of the game's story set years in the past, in this side story, you would take control of a rookie who must save a cinema business due to it falling apart and people not even bothering going into iy, and it's up to him to grab the remaining funds to save it before it closes down forever.

*Main article: Doodle Madness: Abstraction Metropolis*
The third side-stories update takes place under The Grasslands itself called “Abstraction Metropolis”, a neon-lit abstract surreal like city where any kind of people hasn't even heard about… until now! In this side-story, you would take on a role as a character that has lost their memories and doesn’t know how or where they came from, and so they must find a way to get out of this place and make it up to the surface.

*Main article: Doodle Madness: Graffiti Highway*
The fourth side-stories update that it takes place in the outskirts of Funkatropolis where the government has banned everything that is graffiti related and it looks like it's up to a bunch of graffiti artists, and with the help of Calculate Recovery, to destroy this law and spread freedom around for people to graffiti more again.

*Main article: Doodle Madness: Desert Side*
the fifth and final Side-Stories update that would tie into the game's sequel idea in some way, in this story update it will focus on the character, Arabiana The Marvellous as she faces a villainous threat that is gonna invade her home town, Picto-Atol to mess things up.

## Scrapped/Unused Content

*Main article: Scrapped/Unused Content in Doodle Madness: Shattered Memories*
These are the scrapped/unused content that were once going to be planned in the game itself, but some of these ideas were either reused in the game's multiple sequels and spin-offs, plus these scrapped plans were revealed by the developer themselves!

## Trivia

* Doodle Madness: Shattered Memories was originally going to be an RPG game that was going to be titled *"Doodle Kingdoms"* with a completely different game engine, which was going to be running with RPG Maker.
	+ But the idea of the scrapped RPG game of Doodle Madness was brought back with the name being used
* The Combat Meter in Doodle Madness: Shattered Memories is based on the Stylish Rank System from the Devil May Cry series.
	+ The name of the combat meter is called *Raise The Ranks*.
* Doodle Madness: Shattered Memories has a map screen akin to Super Mario World.
* There is one dish that was used in the game's cook-off ending where the girls has made the last dish for the cook-off called "*Mega Mix Mashup*", when some of the character's has upon eating it, their tastebuds are destroyed from it's disgusting flavour, this dish is based on the infamous "*Mystery Food X*" from Persona 4.