Doodle Jump: Top 10 Tips & Cheats You Need to Know

Doodle Jump. You know it. You’ve played it. You’re probably playing it to death right now!

The simple art style and gameplay all combine into a super addictive game that’s hard to put down. You control a cute, lil’ yellow avatar that’s a masterful jumper. You’re put in charge of getting this yellow dude to higher platforms while dodging enemies and other random hazards. We know you’re looking to get the highest score possible and land on some of the tougher situated platforms. Well, our aid will be of great use to you.

Here are the top 10 tips/tricks/cheats you need to use during your time with the super addictive Doodle Jump!

1. So What’s Classic Mode All About?

You’ll notice that there’s the option to select a mode called “Classic Mode.” This mode of play is designed for casual players who don’t want to deal with the headaches from constantly dying much faster than their more talented Doodle Jump players. In Classic Mode, the blue tiles that players can manually move around with your finer input won’t be present. This takes down the game’s difficulty level substantially, but it comes with one caveat – no use of those sweet jetpacks. Go Classic if you want to, but just know what you’re missing.

2. What Gadgets Will Help You Get Even Higher?

Of course, the point of Doodle Jump is to get as high as possible and grant yourself an amazingly high score. There’s a good amount of items that can get you as high as you need to go. Here’s the items that will get you to that top position:

– Springs
– Rockets/Super Rockets (this second pair of rockets will appear during the Space and Under Water level themes)
– Propeller Caps
– Trampolines

3. Lower Your Expectations

With an infinite jumper game such as this, you’ll have to come in knowing that you will die…a lot. The higher you get, the tougher the stage gets and the faster the platforms move. Set your expectations down a bit. You will fail and you won’t get to that fast moving platform most of the time. The road to success is paved with failure, which rings true with this game. Hopping up by gradually making your way up lower platforms that are close to each other are the way to go. Don’t go overshooting your jumps and try to hop on those super high platforms. You may get the urge to get super high. Calm yourself and go in moderation, folks. Make those mistakes, learn from ’em and watch your high score get even better.

4. There’s A Neat Little Trick Hiding Away at the Bottom of the Title Screen

Whenever you go to the title screen, take a peek at the bottom of the screen. Scroll your finger at the bottom and you’ll notice that you can change some of the themes that are available in the game. Those themes include Rainforest, Halloween, Christmas, Space, Regular Stage, Soccer etc.

5. Shooting The Right Way

So you do know you have the ability to shoot at any enemies that get in your way, right? Whenever you touch the screen in a certain direction, your onscreen Doodler will shoot in that direction. Here’s a neat little trick – if you tap on any area that’s below you, your character will actually shoot upwards every time. This can help you kill off any enemies much easier, since you don’t have to concern yourself with aiming a specific direction to fell some enemies. Tap on the bottom and keep the top screen clear so you can see where you’re going.

Your Doodler has a weapon to dispatch the bad guys, a projectile shooter. This is controlled by touch, and if you touch the screen your character will fire in that general direction. What many people don’t know is that if you touch the screen below the Doodler, he will still fire upwards, and in the direction you touched, even though you touched the bottom of the play field. This is helpful because it allows the player to dispatch enemies without disorienting themselves by touching the screen and blocking the action.

6. Here’s An Essential Move That Will Make Monsters Easier to Kill

DoodleJumpGame.org offers a great tip that will help players kill of the game’s enemies in a faster, more efficient way:

This tip is one of the simpler ones. There are monsters that will be easy to kill when you have mastered this move. What you need to do is carefully and quickly navigate between a dangerous hole and the green monster waiting to pounce on you. What you need to next is just keep jumping in the middle platforms. And just underneath the hole, tilt Doodle the Doodler. Then tilt back as soon as you move past the hole. It is a simple and not so flashy move. But this way you move past the hole and can now focus on destroying the monster.

7. Aim for Lower Platforms When You Go Higher

The WikiHow page for Doodle Jump provided tip on maximizing the use of lower platforms once you get to a higher plateau that’s filled with faster moving platforms:

As you go higher, aim lower. As you go higher, the platforms move faster back and forth and you have less time to gauge whether your jump will hit or miss a platform. It’s tempting to aim for a higher platform but, by design, many platforms are just barely out of reach. Aiming for a lower platform is worth the extra time considering how long it would take to get back that lofty level.

8. So What Achievement Are There?

If you’re focused on getting every in-game achievement that’s present in the game, then refer to the achievements section seen below (the credit for this achievements list goes to Game Revolution):

– Twitter Connector (10 Points): Tweet your score on Twitter
– Facebook Connector (10 Points): Post your score on Facebook
– Spring Shoes Jumper (10 Points): Jumped with spring shoes on without falling
– Serial Springer (10 Points): Jumped on 3 springs in a row
– Super Serial Springer (20 Points): Jumped on 5 springs in a row
– Monster Bouncer (10 Points): Jumped on 10 monsters in one game
– Super Monster Bouncer (20 Points): Jumped on 30 monsters in one game
– Conflict Avoider (10 Points): Jump past 10 monsters in one game
– Super Conflict Avoider (20 Points): Jump past 30 monsters in one game
– Sharp Shooter (10 Points): Shoot 5 monsters in a row without missing
– Super Sharp Shooter (20 Points): Shoot 10 monsters in a row without missing
– Propellerhead (10 Points): Use 3 propellerhats in one game
– Jetpack Rider (20 Points): Use 3 jetpacks in one game
– Old-fashioned Jumper (20 Points): Jump past 3 jetpacks without picking them up
– UFO abduction survivor: Survive UFO abduction

9. Try Out Some New Stage Themes

When you eventually lose a game, try entering these codes in when you’re asked to enter your name. Some of these change the overall theme of the stage you’ll proceed to play in, while one of these codes in particular gives the enemies a new design:

– Boo: Halloween
– Snow: Christmas
– Creeps: Transforms the stages’ enemies into the ones “The Creeps”

10. Change Up Your Style When You Die

When you fail and lose your life, you’ll get the chance to enter your name in. What you should know is that you” actually get different outfits when you enter in different names. Here’s a list of those names and what cool new outfits you’ll get with those names:

– Bunny: Bunny Outfit
– E.B. or HOP: Another Bunny Outfit
– Boo: Ghost Dude
– Snow: Christmas Outfit
– Klack: Pocket God Dude
– Ooga – Pocket God Dude
– Booga – Pocket God Dude
– Nooby – Pocket God Dude
– Dooby – Pocket God Dude
– Klik – Pocket God Dude
– Creeps: Creeps Character

If you have any extra tips and cheats you’d like to contribute to fellow Doodle Jump players, throw them in the comments section!