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The Guardian explains “the story behind the Whodle“:
This summer, engineers at Google London added the Tardis to Google Street View, but that wasn’t enough for Doctor Who fans, 4,000 of whom have signed a petition asking Google to do a doodle for the show’s 50th Anniversary.
Today, those wishes were granted: not only did Google make the doodle, but the game gracing every Google homepage in the world today is one of the biggest the company has ever produced. But despite appearances, the “Whodle” – as it’s known internally – is the work of just five people, led by Matthew Cruickshank, a Brit who has been working at the company as a full-time doodler for just over a year.
“It’s the first game that I’ve designed,” he explains over the phone from California. “But it’s the technicians and programmers that actually make the game. I just art direct, create the assets, set the visual tone, design the characters, and then do pieces of animation.”
It’s not like Cruickshank has had much time to put everything together, either. Like all Google doodles, the idea wasn’t set in stone until a few months before. “It was about four months ago that an employee here who’s a massive Doctor Who fan added it to our list of potential doodles. We looked through it and realised that this was something special, a chance to really celebrate a national institution.”…
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Apart from that, Sarah Jane, what’s on the agenda for the day?
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