Scribblenauts: summon chicken hats in-game. Also IRL when you pre-order.

cloudeagle

How the hell have we gone without discussing this potentially wonderful DS game? It's being made by 5th Cell, the creators of Lock's Quest and Drawn to Life, if that tells you anything.



So this game. It... uh. It's a little hard to describe, but it looks wonderfully unique. You know what, you'd be better served by watching this video.

http://ds.ign.com/dor/objects/14304256/scribblenauts/videos/Scribblenauts_new2_120508.html

If you're behind a filter, let me try to explain it to you.

You're this guy. There's a thing in a tree that, in typical video game fashion, you desire. But they way you get it is anything but typical... supposedly, it's limited only by your imagination.

TAKE ONE: Write the word "ladder." A ladder appears. Your guy takes the ladder to the tree, climbs it, and gets the thing.

TAKE TWO: Write the word "football." A football appears. Your guy picks it up and hucks it at the thing, knocking it out of the tree into easy reach.

TAKE THREE: Write the word "beaver." A beaver appears. Pick it up, and it'll eat through the trunk, knocking the tree down and letting you easily pick up the thing.

TAKE FOUR: Write the word "tsunami." A tsunami appears, destroying utterly everything, including yourself. Woops.

The developers promise you can draw absolutely anything, and it'll behave exactly like you'd expect. Light objects move differently than heavy objects. Animals can be predators or prey. Objects have different levels of flammability. Think Gary's Mod, only with object creation.

I know, you're thinking "whee, I get to play with a bank of 50 or so objects." Nope. The developers absolutely swear on their mothers' graves that EVERYTHING will be in there. The reason the art style is so simple is because they want to program an utterly absurd number of objects for you to create and mess around with.



There's a long interview with the developers here:

http://ds.ign.com/articles/936/936157p1.html

They don't have a publisher or release date set yet, but damn if this isn't intriguing.

Lunker

Oh wow. I liked the hook of Drawn to Life when I rented it, but I felt like the actual meat of gameplay itself was too rudimentary for my tastes. This sounds ... appealing.

Domhnall

It sounds interesting but I really doubt you could do anything. You just couldn't.

cloudeagle

They might not get EVERYTHING (I'm guessing proper nouns are right out), but even if they just get up to 500 or so, that could make for a damn interesting game.

Lave II

OOoooh. This could be good.

I'll be watching this unfold.

Graviija

I saw this the other day. It sounds like it'll be a lot of fun.

I will solve every puzzle with a beaver. Every single one.

RandomEngy

This kind of game seems like it would be susceptible to either frustration from not thinking of the correct word or boredom from it being simply too easy.

Also, I doubt you could get everything. Could you draw "star" and win instantly? Or "gun" and just shoot everything? Or "puzzle-solving machine"?

But I don't know, maybe it will be fun. I do think they have a challenge in front of them though.

Bedlam

Obviously not everything. Otherwise children would be assulting the bad guys with penis swords.

Looks cool though. Seems like a promising developer and Im subrised they arent in a deal with a puplisher yet. Seems like this is the kind of creativity that gets bought up.

wwtMask

I'm guessing they won't be including "penis" or "boobs". So much for having everything in the game. :P

Xagarath

It'd be nice to think this could work, but I'm sceptical for now.
One to watch, though.

freakish light

Bedlam wrote: »

Obviously not everything. Otherwise everybody from PA would be assulting the bad guys with penis swords.

ArcSyn

I will watch later, but this sounds absolutely interesting.

Taramoor

freakish light wrote: »

Bedlam wrote: »

Obviously not everything. Otherwise the entire internet would be assaulting the bad guys with penis swords.

slash000

Doesn't need "everything." Just enough stuff to make it truly interesting. For example, if you hadn't thought "football," they'd probably be smart enough to include "rock" to knock it down, or "boomerang" for it to swoop around and return the thing.

For each puzzle, really, they only need a lot of things capable of doing something with the particular puzzle. Sure, you probably see a Starite in a tree and think, "if I had a rocket launcher, I could shoot the tree down!" That probably won't be in the game. But a player ought to be smart enough to think of objects that can either knock down the item or knock down the tree or climb up the tree or whatever.

Taramoor

And hey, first guy to write a gamefaq with every acceptable response will be a gentleman and a scholar.

freakish light

But how could you ever know you'd finally got them all? There's no Pokedex for shit you can write in to solve a puzzle.

Taramoor

freakish light wrote: »

But how could you ever know you'd finally got them all? There's no Pokedex for shit you can write in to solve a puzzle.

There's a dictionary.

This reminds me, in a weird way, of those one-command text adventures like Aisle and such.

PikaPuff

the ending was funny, even though it didn't work. which I guess is part of the fun.

summons a cop. summons a donut. throws donut at the star and the cop chases after the donut

Evil Multifarious

this sounds amazing.

Couscous

Can y ou summon Jesus to get across some water?

Evil Multifarious

You probably can, honestly. That's something that's pretty obvious.

The question is, can you summon a Belmont to defeat Dracula - as Dracula actually shows up in one of the levels?

lowlylowlycook

Couscous wrote: »

Can y ou summon Jesus to get across some water?

I'm sure he crosses the water, then you drown trying to follow him. Meanwhile, he is laughing at your lack of faith.

Evil Multifarious

lowlylowlycook wrote: »

Couscous wrote: »

Can y ou summon Jesus to get across some water?

I'm sure he crosses the water, then you drown trying to follow him. Meanwhile, he is laughing at your lack of faith.

that's why you ride jesus across.

Couscous

If you summon porn, you lose the game as your character is too busy fapping to care about anything else.

Domhnall

Evil Multifarious wrote: »

You probably can, honestly. That's something that's pretty obvious.

The question is, can you summon a Belmont to defeat Dracula - as Dracula actually shows up in one of the levels?

I'd just summon the sun.

Evil Multifarious

Domhnall wrote: »

Evil Multifarious wrote: »

You probably can, honestly. That's something that's pretty obvious.

The question is, can you summon a Belmont to defeat Dracula - as Dracula actually shows up in one of the levels?

I'd just summon the sun.

Easier, but less entertaining.

I'd summon a grapeshot cannon and a pile of stakes.

Domhnall

Evil Multifarious wrote: »

Domhnall wrote: »

Evil Multifarious wrote: »

You probably can, honestly. That's something that's pretty obvious.

The question is, can you summon a Belmont to defeat Dracula - as Dracula actually shows up in one of the levels?

I'd just summon the sun.

Easier, but less entertaining.

I'd summon a grapeshot cannon and a pile of stakes.

A pool cue and an olympic javelin thrower.

(I now really want this game to be good)

Evil Multifarious

Domhnall wrote: »

Evil Multifarious wrote: »

Domhnall wrote: »

Evil Multifarious wrote: »

You probably can, honestly. That's something that's pretty obvious.

The question is, can you summon a Belmont to defeat Dracula - as Dracula actually shows up in one of the levels?

I'd just summon the sun.

Easier, but less entertaining.

I'd summon a grapeshot cannon and a pile of stakes.

A pool cue and an olympic javelin thrower.

(I now really want this game to be good)

a guillotine and a lebanese chef (they love their garlic)

Vi Monks

In the IGN review, they talk about some pretty obscure stuff. Sharks that eat elephants? Check. Sharks with lasers that shoot elephants? Check. Meat chained to a pole so you can ride around on a raptor, carrot-on-a-stick style? Check.

The developer says with a good deal of confidence that most players won't see half the objects in the game because they're just too obscure but other than copyrighted and vulgar stuff, you really can draw anything. Now like anyone I remain a bit skeptical, but I will say I think it will be a bit more than a 50-object bank with only a couple objects that can solve the puzzle. They even talk about how when you replay the game, you can't use any of the same objects you used before. I like the sound of that.

Taramoor

Evil Multifarious wrote: »

lowlylowlycook wrote: »

Couscous wrote: »

Can y ou summon Jesus to get across some water?

I'm sure he crosses the water, then you drown trying to follow him. Meanwhile, he is laughing at your lack of faith.

that's why you ride jesus across.

Options:

1. Wait to see if the water level lowers
2. Attempt to ford the river
3. Caulk your Jesus and float it across

Seeks

I wonder if you can't use the same option level after level or something.

Otherwise every puzzle would be solved by beavers or fire.

PikaPuff

Taramoor wrote: »

Evil Multifarious wrote: »

lowlylowlycook wrote: »

Couscous wrote: »

Can y ou summon Jesus to get across some water?

I'm sure he crosses the water, then you drown trying to follow him. Meanwhile, he is laughing at your lack of faith.

that's why you ride jesus across.

Options:

1. Wait to see if the water level lowers
2. Attempt to ford the river
3. Caulk your Jesus and float it across

4. Summon Moses

Couscous

Seeks wrote: »

I wonder if you can't use the same option level after level or something.

Otherwise every puzzle would be solved by beavers or fire.

Or with flaming demon beavers.

Domhnall

PikaPuff wrote: »

Taramoor wrote: »

Evil Multifarious wrote: »

lowlylowlycook wrote: »

Couscous wrote: »

Can y ou summon Jesus to get across some water?

I'm sure he crosses the water, then you drown trying to follow him. Meanwhile, he is laughing at your lack of faith.

that's why you ride jesus across.

Options:

1. Wait to see if the water level lowers
2. Attempt to ford the river
3. Caulk your Jesus and float it across

4. Summon Moses

I like the cut of your jib!

Evil Multifarious

Seeks wrote: »

I wonder if you can't use the same option level after level or something.

Otherwise every puzzle would be solved by beavers or fire.

the puzzle is a fire elemental who hates beavers.

AkimboEG

If this turns out good, I might actually get myself a DS.

Rent

This game sounds awesome
I can't wait

Couscous

Evil Multifarious wrote: »

Seeks wrote: »

I wonder if you can't use the same option level after level or something.

Otherwise every puzzle would be solved by beavers or fire.

the puzzle is a fire elemental who hates beavers.

Then he should hate it when the beavers gnaw on him.

Bursar

Yeah, well, we'll see what happens when I type in "asbestos beaver dentures" into that entry box. Creating ANYTHING, right?

Food

Bursar wrote: »

Yeah, well, we'll see what happens when I type in "asbestos beaver dentures" into that entry box. Creating ANYTHING, right?

But would you really significantly increase those poor beaver's chances of developing cancer just so that you can win one level in a video game? You monster.

cloudeagle

Food wrote: »

Bursar wrote: »

Yeah, well, we'll see what happens when I type in "asbestos beaver dentures" into that entry box. Creating ANYTHING, right?

But would you really significantly increase those poor beaver's chances of developing cancer just so that you can win one level in a video game? You monster.

If this weren't a thread I created myself I'd report this for being awesome.