Scribblenauts

[Rakala]

This is actually a pretty cool game. When I first looked at it I figured it was a silly kids game, but having played it I like it.

For those of you who don't know, Scribblenauts is an action/puzzle game for the DS. It's main selling point is the ability to summon pretty much anything by using a small touch screen keyboard to spell out the name. I personally have tried almost everything I can think of and only one thing I've tried hasn't yielded a result, and that is you can't summon Obama. I've even had God fight Death (Death won and I just sat there wondering where I could go from there.) Examples of things you can summon are policemen, dogs, various weapons, an invisibility cloak, yourself, the full moon, Cthulhu, the Kraken, and even a mind control device.

The entire game is stylus controlled which is a little awkward at first but easy enough to get the hang of. There are basically two types of levels, puzzle and action. In puzzle levels you simply have to solve the puzzle. Figure out what objects could go into the hands of a doctor? The action levels are a little more interesting. For example there is a level with an object in a tree. How do you get it out? You can chop down the tree, you can get a ladder, or you can summon another person a baseball and a bat and knock the object out with the baseball. It's really quite interesting. It's fun thinking up more and different ways to solve the puzzle.

[Janus Whitefurr]

I personally have tried almost everything I can think of and only one thing I've tried hasn't yielded a result, and that is you can't summon Obama. I've even had God fight Death (Death won and I just sat there wondering where I could go from there.)

Saw this in a preview video long before the game came out, so either you tried it for yourself by chance, or you saw that video too and just had to try it yourself. The dialogue I saw was hilarious, the guy essentially said "Summoned Death, he started killing everything, so I summoned God, and then Death KILLED God, and I was like... what do I do now?"

[ShadesFox]

I found that the answer to that question is, "Black hole"

[Janus Whitefurr]

I found that the answer to that question is, "Black hole"

I first used that when you had to figure out a way past the tornado to the starite.

I then began abusing it with -everything- for giggles.

[Tipod]

Is it true that you can beat levels just by typing in the name of the object you have to get? If so then that's rad as hell.

[Ryudo Lee]

Is it true that you can beat levels just by typing in the name of the object you have to get? If so then that's rad as hell.

Nope, tried that.  Sure, you get to hold the item, but it doesn't beat the level.

One amusing thing that I discovered... I wrote in "psycho" and it spawned a woman with a knife.

Another amusing thing, if you write in "LHC" it spawns the LHC.  Use it and it turns into a black hole.

Also, there are secret levels.  Use "teleporter" and "time machine".  It's amusing.

[ShadesFox]

I once used a time machine.  Got a raptor.  Then I crushed I then crushed a bunch of suspiciously Nazi like solders with my raptor/SMG combo.

[silentassassin]

Must get scibblenaughts

[Vidar]

Do the words 'TARDIS', 'Dalek', 'Enterprise', 'Cthulhu', and 'beer' work?

[Janus Whitefurr]

Do the words 'TARDIS', 'Dalek', 'Enterprise', 'Cthulhu', and 'beer' work?

While I don't have it with me at the moment, I can at least verify Cthulu.

I used him to beat up polar bears.

[Valynth]

Do the words 'TARDIS', 'Dalek', 'Enterprise', 'Cthulhu', and 'beer' work?

I know Yahtzee complained about not being able to spawn alcohol, so beer's out.

[Toric]

The one word I have found to be absent when it realistically should be present: Lamchop.

Also, today I managed to kill two phoenixes by attaching a safe via rope to a pre-existing pteranodon flying back and forth across the stage. Wham! Wham! Wham! ...Apparently phoenixes do not rise from their own ashes after blunt trauma.

[Janus Whitefurr]

The one word I have found to be absent when it realistically should be present: Lamchop.

"Lambchop" There's a bunch of variants on meat in there, I've found.

[Vidar]

The one word I have found to be absent when it realistically should be present: Lamchop.

"Lambchop" There's a bunch of variants on meat in there, I've found.

Try "long pig". If that's in there, than this game is really scaring me.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Try "long pig". If that's in there, than this game is really scaring me.

If it is, it goes on my christmas list.


... In bigger, bolder letters than before, I mean.

[Janus Whitefurr]

The one word I have found to be absent when it realistically should be present: Lamchop.

"Lambchop" There's a bunch of variants on meat in there, I've found.

Try "long pig". If that's in there, than this game is really scaring me.

Spawns an actual wandering pig, that's all.

I promptly summoned a panther to eat it, fed the panther ham and chicken to make it go to sleep, then used a shrink ray on the panther and tried to stuff it in a basket.

[Toric]

The one word I have found to be absent when it realistically should be present: Lamchop.

"Lambchop" There's a bunch of variants on meat in there, I've found.

i fael English furevur. However, I'm still quite proud of my SecuriFlail.

[Ryudo Lee]

Try "long pig". If that's in there, than this game is really scaring me.

If it is, it goes on my christmas list.


... In bigger, bolder letters than before, I mean.

It would spawn just a normal pig.  The way the game works, if it doesn't understand the prefix but does understand the object, it will just spawn the object as normal, but it will treat it as a unique object, for getting through advanced mode.  So "Pig" and "Long Pig" will both spawn a pig, but each will be unique, you won't get accused of "same word".

[JackLee1978]

In the stage that you have to scare or give some sweets to some trick or treaters, I dropped a corpse on them. They did nothing.

[ShadesFox]

Yea, those kids are pretty hard. I made a raptor attack the cat, they killed eachother. Then I threw the raptor meat at the kids. 

[Rakala]

This game is fairly hardcore. I once attached a baby to a fishing pole and used it as bait for the Kraken. I am terrible.

[Vidar]

This game is fairly hardcore. I once attached a baby to a fishing pole and used it as bait for the Kraken. I am terrible.

It doesn't happen very often that a game comes along that lets you do horrible things to babies. I might still look into this thing.