Tragnorian Studios has announced a new “magical” title for the Nintendo DS entitled Doodle Hex, in which players draw spells onto the touch screen in real-time in a duel against their opponents. Spells include fire, the ability to shake your adversary’s screen and even turning them into a frog.

The firm explains that tactical choices and the accurate drawing of simple shapes (runes) is key to succeeding in Doodle Hex. There are a total of 200 runes to collect and swap via the Nintendo Wi-Fi service.

Sounds quite clever, and Carl Jones, head of Tragnarion Studios was all too happy to ‘big up’ his team’s creation:

“Like classic fighting and puzzle games, Doodle Hex offers a rewarding single player experience and the fun increases massively when dueling against other people. We’re delighted with how Doodle Hex is coming together - the game looks fantastic on the DS, is really addictive and the work our team have done on the characters and art style is amazing. We’re showing some examples of this work on our teaser site doodlehex.com, where you can see the doodlers Cassie, Strat, Fey and Kaleb, for now, but we’ll be putting a lot more content up there after we take Doodle Hex to the Leipzig Game Convention.”

Doodle Hex will be casting its wizardry in the first quarter of 2008. We’re liking the comic book art style quire a lot already.