Drawn to Life is an action-adventure platform video game for the Nintendo DS developed by 5th Cell and published by THQ in 2007.
[3] It was later published by Agatsuma Entertainment in Japan in 2008 under the name Drawn to Life: God's Marionette (ドローン トゥ ライフ 〜神様のマリオネット〜, Dorōn tu Raifu: 〜Kami-sama no Marionetto〜), and in Korea under the title Geuryeora, Touch!
In the game, the player creates their own playable characters, level objects, and accessories by drawing them using the DS's stylus and touchscreen.
Drawn to Life requires the player to create a hero in order to free a cursed village from an encroaching darkness.
A third installment in the series, titled Drawn to Life: Two Realms, developed by Digital Continue and published by 505 Games, was released in December 2020, for Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android, and Microsoft Windows.
Over the course of the game in Village Mode, the player plays minigames, participate in a town festival, hunt for a thief, and help the Raposa thrive.
Players are tasked with rescuing three Raposa and four pieces of a page from the Book of Life, which has to be used to create a new village object.
The player designs a hero for them, and then runs into Wilfre, a corrupted Raposa that dabbled in creation, and spawned a legion of evil shadow-like creatures.
The Mayor asks the hero to find and return the pages of the Book of Life, so the Creator can once again draw the missing objects from the Village.
This reckless act causes a rift between Jowee and Mari, but they eventually make up and grow closer as they help the hero restore the village to what it once was.
Jowee plans to leave on a treasure hunt, and after saying goodbye, Mari reminisces about the past, upset about losing her father and best friend.
[22] In GameSpot's Best of 2007, the DS version was nominated for Genre Awards' Best Platformer (All Systems)[23] and Special Achievement's Best Original Game Mechanic.
Adding that, over THQ's past three fiscal quarters, its DS sales had risen by 94%, primarily driven by Drawn to Life.
[28] The game was well received in Australia, making its debut on the Top 10 Australian sales chart (GfK) for all platforms at #3, behind Halo 3 and The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass.
Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter, both for the Wii and Nintendo DS, introduces new gameplay mechanics such as the hero's ability to transform into different objects.
A new installment, titled Drawn to Life: Two Realms,[31] was developed by Digital Continue, published by 505 Games and was released on December 7, 2020, for Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android, and Microsoft Windows.