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Scribblenauts: summon chicken hats in-game. Also IRL when you pre-order.
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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.
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.
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I'll be watching this unfold.
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I will solve every puzzle with a beaver. Every single one.
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.
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.
One to watch, though.
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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.
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There's a dictionary.
This reminds me, in a weird way, of those one-command text adventures like Aisle and such.
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The question is, can you summon a Belmont to defeat Dracula - as Dracula actually shows up in one of the levels?
I'm sure he crosses the water, then you drown trying to follow him. Meanwhile, he is laughing at your lack of faith.
(Please do not gift. My game bank is already full.)
that's why you ride jesus across.
I'd just summon the sun.
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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)
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a guillotine and a lebanese chef (they love their garlic)
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.
Options:
1. Wait to see if the water level lowers
2. Attempt to ford the river
3. Caulk your Jesus and float it across
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Otherwise every puzzle would be solved by beavers or fire.
Or with flaming demon beavers.
I like the cut of your jib!
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the puzzle is a fire elemental who hates beavers.
I can't wait
Then he should hate it when the beavers gnaw on him.
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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.