Are the broken platforms ever useful in Doodle Jump?

Question

I recently bought Doodle Jump for Android, and keep dying because I accidentally land on the broken platforms.

Do these ever serve a useful purpose, e.g. to slow you down if you're travelling at high speed? Or are they there merely to distract from the viable platforms?

Answer

I studied some video of someone playing the game, and I don't think they have any effect on the physics of your character. Touching them doesn't appear to slow you down or give you any additional opportunity to change direction. I think they're just there to give you a false sense of hope :)

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Which of the Doodle Jump themes have special play modes?

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I have briefly played each of the different themes in Doodle Jump. I noticed when playing the World Cup theme that the gameplay is slightly different - instead of appearing randomly, monsters appear in groups, coloured like particular football teams.

I didn't notice anything special for the other themes. Are there any differences to them besides the colouring?

Answer

Not really, the World Cup one came out just before the world cup, so it was specially designed to be like football fields where you went up towards the goaltender.

The rest of the themes just offer variations of the same, with addition of things like bubbles for underwater, or low visibility for night mode.

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