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Doodads
Project:Doodle comes with several built-in doodads that you can use in your levels. You may also create your own custom doodads and program them to do whatever you want!
Flags
The Start Flag sets the player spawn point in your level. There should be only one start flag.
The Exit Flag sets a goal point for the level. The player must touch this flag to win the level.
Trapdoors
Trapdoors come in four varieties: Left, Right, Up, or down (Trapdoor).
A trapdoor is a one-way passage. If the player or other mobile doodad touches the door from the "correct" side, the door will swing open. After the mobile doodad has passed, the door will swing shut again.
When the door is shut, you can not open it from the "wrong" side and it behaves as a solid wall. If the door is open you may run in from the wrong side.
Locked Doors & Keys
There are four pairs of Colored Locked Doors and Keys you can use on your level.
Colored doors are locked and behave as a solid wall until the player or another mobile doodad "picks up" the Key of the same color. The doors may then be permanently unlocked if the player walks into them while holding the key.
Should the player lose the keys later, previously opened doors will remain unlocked but the player will need to find another key to open more doors.
Each key/door pair also has a distinct shape:
- Red Key (triangle)
- Green Key (cross)
- Yellow Key (star)
- Blue Key (diamond)
Electric Door
The sci-fi electric door can only be opened when it receives a "power" signal from a linked button or switch. See Linked Doodads below.
When the door receives a "power: on" signal it will open and allow passage to the player or other mobile doodads. When it receives a "power: off" signal it will close.
Buttons
Buttons will emit a "power: on" signal to all doodads that they are Linked to when the button is pressed by the player or another mobile doodad.
When the button stops being pressed, it will emit a "power: off" signal to all connected doodads, which will generally close electric doors.
Buttons come in three varieties:
- Button: a button with a grey arrow that pops back up when pressed.
- Button Type B: a variation without the grey arrow but behaves the same.
- Sticky Button: a button with a red arrow that stays pressed in once pressed.
When a sticky button is pressed, it emits a "power: on" signal once and stays pressed in forever. If the Sticky Button itself receives "power: on" from another button, it will pop back up.
Switches
Switches will emit a power: on signal to linked doodads
when touched by the player or other mobile doodad, and then a power: off
signal when touched again.
They come in various aesthetic flavors:
- Wall switch (left, right)
- Floor switch
- On/Off "background" wall switch facing the screen
Crumbly Floor
The Crumbly Floor behaves as a solid ceiling when hit from below, and a solid floor when walked on from above, but watch out! The floor will shake and collapse after a moment beneath your feet.
The floor will respawn after a while and forbids passage from the underside of the doodad.
State Blocks
State Blocks are blue and orange squares that keep opposite state from one another. In one state the block is solid, in another it is passable.
The ON/OFF block will toggle all state blocks on the level to their opposite setting whenever it's touched by the player or other mobile doodad.
Red Azulian (Test Mob)
The red Azulian is a test mobile character. Not really an enemy, as he doesn't care about the player.
The Azulian's A.I. just has it run left and right until it meets resistance. It can pick up keys, activate buttons and switches that it passes by, and can unlock doors.
This mob will probably go away in future releases of the game and will remain in the code as a hidden easter egg.