Scribblenauts
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Review: Scribblenauts...earlier in the year, I had a feeling it would grow up to be something special. That feeling was spot on, Scribblenauts is truly a masterpiece of game design, and possibly the best game released on any platform this year. An absolute classic. In this article: Scribblenauts, Dog, E3, God, FIFA, US Army, and Wii |
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Sydney Morning Herald - Business | September 23, 2009
Scribblenauts: the write way to play
...writes Mike Wilcox. Independent game developer 5th Cell stole the spotlight from many of the big-name blockbuster video games at the world's biggest gaming convention, E3, this year with Scribblenauts. Like the developer's previous...
In this article: Jeremiah Slaczka, Nintendo DS, E3, Drawn to Life, 5th Cell, and Brisbane
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VentureBeat | October 15, 2009
Scribblenauts game developer makes a risky bet on being original
...titles belongs to 5th Cell. Scribblenauts, the company's fifth DS game, is an innovative puzzle-action title enabling players to use tens of thousands of words, which turn into objects to solve puzzles. The inventive Scribblenauts won...
In this article: Jeremiah Slaczka, 5th Cell, Drawn to Life, THQ, Nintendo, and Lock's Quest
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Kotaku | July 09, 2009
Scribblenauts, As Hilariously Explained By The ESRB [Nintendo DS]
...doubtful my brain can envision a number that large. Before they made E3 critical darling Scribblenauts, a group of developers made Drawn To Life, a DS game with a user-illustrated hero. Now another team is bringing a sequel to the Wii. The...
In this article: ESRB, E3, Wii, Nintendo, Drawn to Life, and Nintendo DS
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Joystiq | July 24, 2009
Comic-Con 2009: Scribblenauts towers over everything
...business card case Just back in June at E3, we barely noticed Scribblenauts, tucked away in the far reaches of WB's space, tucked behind potted plants and up against the back walls of the convention center. Thankfully we did notice it...
In this article: Joystiq, E3, Cute Overload, Killzone 2, Fever, Guerrilla Games, and Japan
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Gamespot | July 09, 2009
Scribblenauts Updated Hands-On
...and we recently got another chance to experience this very special game. Scribblenauts is a platformer-cum-puzzle game that stole the limelight at this year's E3. It made such an impression, that we named it our own Game of the Show,...
In this article: 5th Cell, Drawn to Life, Garlic bread, Helium, E3, GameSpot UK, and God of War III
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IGN | September 29, 2009
Scribblenauts: Another Take
...game that finally made its way to store shelves was not ready for release. Scribblenauts is a failed experiment, possibly a victim of its own early E3 success. Was the publisher so eager to capitalize on the trade show buzz that it rushed...
In this article: E3, Electronic Entertainment Expo, Dingo, Crocodile, 5th Cell, Nintendo, Nintendo DS, and Warner Bros.
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5th Cell had five people research words for six months for Scribblenauts
5th Cell had five people research words for six months for Scribblenauts 48 minutes ago on Joystiq Nintendo: This Week on the Nintendo Channel: E3 interviews 1 hour ago on Joystiq Nintendo: Black Wii, blue controllers on display at World...
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Wikipedia | November 04, 2009
Scribblenauts
...and was considered the "sleeper hit" of the show. Scribblenauts is the first portable video game in history to win "Best of Show" awards for E3 from any major gaming media outlet. The game was named "Best Original Game" and "Best...
In this article: Jeremiah Slaczka, 5th Cell, E3, Nintendo DS, IGN, Warner Bros, and NeoGAF
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Sony Motion Controller update features pinatas, wizardry, hairstyling
...day ago on Joystiq Playstation: Hustle Kings trailer asks ridiculous question 1 day ago on Joystiq Nintendo: Scribblenauts trailer highlights press scribblings The PS3 Slim wasn't the only point of interest from Sony's GamesCom 2009 press...
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Scribblenauts is an upcoming emergent puzzle action video game in development by 5th Cell for the Nintendo DS. The game is published through Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and will be released in September 2009 in North America and Australia and October 2009 in the United Kingdom. It is the third Nintendo DS video game made by 5th Cell, the first two being Drawn to Life and Lock's Quest. The objective of Scribblenauts, as implied by its catchphrase "Write Anything, Solve Everything", is to complete puzzles to collect "Starites", helped by the player's ability to summon objects out of a database of tens of thousands by writing an object's name on the touchscreen. The game is considered by its developers to help promote emergent gameplay by challenging the player to solve its puzzles within certain limitations or through multiple unique solutions.
Jeremiah Slaczka, creator of Scribblenauts, envisioned the game as a combination of solving life situation puzzles alongside Mad Libs. His vision was brought to realization through the "Objectnaut" engine created by 5th Cell's technical director, Marius Fahlbusch. Objectnaut allowed for a data driven approach, and a significant portion of the development time was spent researching nouns and their properties, and categorizing them into the Objectnaut database. This, along with the simplistic art designs of 5th Cell's Edison Yan, allowed for the team to easily add new words to the database without expending much effort to program new behavior.
Scribblenauts was first shown in a playable form at the 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo, and became a sleeper hit, winning several "Best of Show" awards, being the first portable console game to win such praise.
- Genre:
- Emergent, Puzzle, Action
- Published By:
- Modes:
- Single-player, Online Level Sharing
- Composer:
- David J Franco
- Designed By:
- Matt Cox
- Developed by:
- 5th Cell
- Media Type:
- Nintendo DS Game Card
- Platforms:
- Nintendo DS
- Inputs:
- Touch screen
- Engine:
- Objectnaut
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