Doodle Madness: Shattered Memories

***Doodle Madness: Shattered Memories*** is an upcoming 2D Side-Scrolling, Comedy Based, Action Adventure Platformer that is being developed and published by Coffee Bean Games, it is in the very early stages of development with many ideas being gathered like the game’s story for example!

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.

The game will be released as an early access title with having a three act structure, with Act 1 releasing later in the future!

## Gameplay

The idea on **Doodle Madness: Shattered Memories'** gameplay is that it's 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

The idea on Doodle Madness: Shattered Memories was made all the way back on May 23, 2017 when the creator on the game, SlackerArtist has talked about the idea on creating a game that is gonna be a 3D platformer in the style of the games that were released in the 00's, the games that are taking inspiration such as SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom, Psychonauts, Crash Twinsanity, Pac-Man World 2 and the Ratchet & Clank series, but some of those ideas from a Twitter thread with the provided screenshots (like the 15 worlds, combat, character dialogue art work, weapons and even transformations) are gonna be used in Shattered Memories! But the 3D platformer idea would be used in a future Doodle Madness sequel idea.

The early ideas of the game has started in Summer of 2018, life as a RPG Maker game and was to be inspired by the likes of many RPG Maker games like Ghost Hospital, Pumpkin Noir, OFF and even Toilet in Wonderland, but after seeing the game, Pizza Tower (the game that is being in development at the time) there was a tough choice that SlackerArtist has to pick, should he scrap the RPG idea and turn it into a 2D platformer or just stuck with the RPG idea, but he then decided to choose the 2D platformer idea due to that making smaller sprites would be very hard to create and Gamemaker Studio 2 would be much easier to create bigger sprites, but the many RPG ideas (like the leveling up system) would be use in Doodle Madness: Shattered Memories.

## Main Characters

*Main article: List of Playable Characters*
## Game Soundtrack

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

*Main article: Doodle Madness: Side-Stories*
## Trivia

* The Year and Month the game takes place is in July of 2011.
* Originally Doodle Madness: Shattered Memories was planned to be an RPG game that was going to be titled *"Doodle Quest"* that was going to be running with RPG Maker MV, but after seeing games like the Ubiart Rayman games and classic 2D platformers from the SNES/Mega Drive era, the game was shifted over from being an RPG to a 2D platformer.
	+ But an idea of a Doodle Madness RPG will be used again in the near future after when Shattered Memories is finished in the near future.
* The Combat Meter in Doodle Madness: Shattered Memories would be based on the Stylish Rank System from the Devil May Cry series.
	+ The name of the combat meter is going to be called *Raise The Ranks*.
* Doodle Madness: Shattered Memories will be having a map screen akin to the one's from both Super Mario World and Miitopia.
* The game was once planned to be one large game, but with the scope of the game being bigger, the game will be split into three acts being released in Early Access on all PC platforms with Steam being one of them!