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E3 09: Scribblenauts solves the most important questions  photo

Those questions include: Who would win a fight between a Kraken and a stegosaurus? Who would win in a fight between a Kraken, God, and Albert Einstein?

The answer, according to 5th Cell's Scribblenauts, is always the Kraken. 

Scribblenauts was announced last year and we're finally, six months later, starting to see that it lives up to its promises. The game follows young Maxwell, who wears a rooster helmet (!), as he tries to collect little things called "Starites" by solving puzzles. The puzzles are divided into two categories, "casual" and "core." While I hate those arbitrary distinctions, 5th Cell's heart is in the right place: some puzzles involve day-to-day activities ("climb this tree to reach this piece of Starite") and some of them are more gamey ("avoid this pool of flaming magma and kill some mummies to reach this piece"). That's interesting, but here's the catch: the core mechanic involves using an in-game typepad to summon anything you can think of. Check out the E3 trailer for a little demonstration.

More importantly, 5th Cell's E3 booth featured an open-world level of Scribblenauts where testers could play around and try to find the limits of the game's dictionary. The guys over at Nintendorks got the chance to fiddle with it, and while the word Obama was a no go, God, Kraken, jackalope, and stegosaurus all make an appearance. And then they duke it out in a Battle Royale of cosmic proportion.The video is after the jump.

Also, it seems that some of the objects were drawn by Paul Robertson, of Pirate Baby Cabana Battle fame, who also worked with 5th Cell for Lock's Quest.

My girlfriend Andrea is my go-to source for all things cute, and this is what she had to say: "YOU GET TO RIDE A WHALE. YOU GET TO RIDE A WHALE. HE IS RIDING A WHALE." What else do you need to know? Scribblenauts should hit retailers sometime this year.

[Via Offworld]


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Justice's Avatar
Justice at 06/05/2009 10:24
Oh man, Paul Robertson is involved in this? I should have realised.
Tubatic's Avatar
Tubatic at 06/05/2009 10:38
... Arright. I'm calling it.

I think I'm looking at Game of the Year.
DinnertimeNinja's Avatar
DinnertimeNinja at 06/05/2009 10:39
I think I'm in love!

My worst fears for this game have been allayed.

When a Kraken can battle God with Einstein watching on the sidelines you know you've got a magical experience.
Trevor McGee's Avatar
Trevor McGee at 06/05/2009 10:45
Why did no one try "naked woman"? I'm surprised no one tried anything perverse.
falinter's Avatar
falinter at 06/05/2009 10:50
I am now completely interested in this game.
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Tubatic at 06/05/2009 10:50
@Trevor

The guys at IGN tried "penis". no go.
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gatorsax2010 at 06/05/2009 10:54
I love how God owns the Kraken, and Einstein just runs away. I need this game NOW.
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Chronic Logic at 06/05/2009 10:54
I'm sure the developers of Scribblenauts have already though about what naughty or evil things gamers would try to type down in the game and nixed them out.
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Springsteen at 06/05/2009 11:01
Einstein's afraid of God... Damm, this game must be one hell of an experience.
Monodi's Avatar
Monodi at 06/05/2009 11:01
This game even has internet memes.
LMAO's Avatar
LMAO at 06/05/2009 11:03
@Monodi

I heard Keyboard Cat is in there
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adultswim810 at 06/05/2009 11:07
OH GOD YES
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ejamer at 06/05/2009 11:09
Wow... Somehow, I didn't believe it until seeing it. This looks awesome.

Hopefully the dev team will keep an open-world level in the game so people can just mess around. God vs Kraken vs Einstein was awesome.
Jon Bloodspray's Avatar
Jon Bloodspray at 06/05/2009 11:10
One step closer to Kings of Power 4 billion percent: The Game
Kvb's Avatar
Kvb at 06/05/2009 11:10
BEST GAME EVER!
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valhum at 06/05/2009 12:02
Oh lord that is aweeeeeeeeeesome! haha
mispelt's Avatar
mispelt at 06/05/2009 12:09
"Einstein is afraid of God" -- best quote of E3
Lime's Avatar
Lime at 06/05/2009 12:15
If you put in crowbar, he turns into Gordon Freeman. :o
embef's Avatar
embef at 06/05/2009 12:30
I honestly cannot wait for this game any much longer! When I heard it got little attention at E3 I got sad.
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DanlHaas at 06/05/2009 13:01
Hey, my girlfriend is named Andrea too! I should probably show her this game.
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welkstar at 06/05/2009 13:27
Wow, forget Natal, this is the most impressive thing I've seen come out of E3.
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FatherChesz at 06/05/2009 13:56
Reminds me of MUGEN, though without searching for the damn characters and all that mess. I would be very surprised if Chuck Norris didn't make an appearance in there.
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Dexter345 at 06/05/2009 14:45
That is completely incredible. I can't even fathom the amount of time it has taken them to go through every concrete noun (and several famous people) in the dictionary, and draw artwork, and assign behaviors and attributes to each and every one.

This looks ridiculously amazing, if only from a technical standpoint.
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SurplusGamer at 06/05/2009 17:31
the technology behind it is that they mostly had a database of properties, and those properties dictates how everything interacts and its behaviour. It's still a massive feat but made easier by just having to assign the right properties to each object, make the 2D art and simple vectory animations, and then the game works out how it should all act. It's clever.
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Shinscythe at 06/06/2009 09:55
OMG!, @FatherChesz, how do they miss that, summoning Chuck Norris would be the ultimate

I wanna see a Chuk vs God fight
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tigerfangred91 at 06/10/2009 13:42
This game should not work, but I am thoroughly impressed at how somehow they pulled it off. I can't wait for this to come out.
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Holyetheline at 06/10/2009 14:41
This is cool as hell.
Spork's Avatar
Spork at 06/13/2009 14:37
ME WANT, ME DO WANT, ME WANT, GIVE SPORKS SCRIBBLE!!!
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