US publisher THQ has released details of its upcoming adventure title, Drawn To Life.

The game will be THQ’s first original IP to be released on DS only, and is scheduled for release in the Autumn.

The company calls the title ‘the first ever action-adventure game that lets players drawn their own hero’.

The game challenges players to save a distant village from a shadow-like evil that has shrouded it in darkness.

Using one of four ‘Hero forms’, including Flying Hero and Aquatic Hero, players have to conquer a variety of different environments such as snowy fields, tropical islands and dark forests.