Doodle ski puts you on a pair of planks (skiis) and gives you the ability to turn left and right just before shoving you down a graph paper hill sprinkled with hand-drawn hazards. The goal of the game is to survive as long as you can without running into trees, falling rocks or icy holes. Nothing more, nothing less. We’ve seen several of this type of game including one where you were driving a 4x4, on a sled and a bicycle. So really, it’s absolutely nothing new. In fact, it’s even less than some of the others which had jumps, collectibles and more. This one does allow you to throw snowballs, but then doesn’t give you much to throw them at.

The graphics are hand drawn, hence the word doodle in the title, and the playing field is graph paper. Cute, but basic just like the sound which consists of just one of song that plays over and over and over again.

If the game’s free it might be slightly entertaining from time to time as a way to waste a couple minutes, but there are far more interesting and engrossing games available on the iPhone for just a dollar or two which I would suggest well before getting this one. It’s not that this game is bad, I just see little, if any, value in it at present. It seems somewhat incomplete to me.

I was going to include some screens and a link but I can’t seem to find it on the iTunes site. No matter.