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Doodle Jump cover artvsFruit Ninja cover art

Doodle JumpvsFruit Ninja

Doodle Jump leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Fruit Ninja leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION7 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10
Doodle JumpFruit Ninja

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 3

Doodle Jump leans harder on variance: Procedural platform layout shapes each climb

Optimization2 vs 2

Even - both lean on optimization about the same.

Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

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Doodle Jump

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