Scribblenauts at Gameplanet NZ

Scribblenauts competition winner announced

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:38:00 +1300

Recently, we asked our forum population to come up with an imaginative way to solve a Scribblenauts problem involving a beached whale. You can check out our request, and the subsequent suggestions in this thread on our forums.

Thanks to Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment NZ, whoever managed to come up with the best idea would also win their very own Nintendo DS, as well as a copy of Scribblenauts to play on it.

We're pleased to announce that Jeremy Logan of Manukau has taken out this prize with his excellent design skills and practical application. Congratulations! Check out the gallery below for Jeremy's solution.

Win a Nintendo DS with Scribblenauts!

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:45:00 +1300

Gameplanet is giving away an extra special prize pack to celebrate the launch of Scribblenauts!

Up for grabs is a copy of Scribblenauts, a brand new Nintendo DS Lite to play it on, a Scribblenauts Stylus, and (arguably best of all) a real red Rooster Hat to wear - just like Maxwell's!

To enter the competition, you just need to use your imagination.

Look at the picture at the top of this article.
Post a comment and tell us: How would you get the beached whale back into the water?

What objects will you use? Just like in Scribblenauts the game, you can use pretty much anything you can think of. Be inventive! At the end of the competition, we'll pick our favourite answer to win the prizes.

Scribblenauts review

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:26:00 +1300

One of the things I criticize DS games for is a lack of innovation on such an innovative platform. The dual screens, the touchpad, the wifi, microphone (and now the cameras) are all begging for something a little out of the ordinary to spring up.

Occasionally, a developer gets things right, and we end up with a game that makes full use of the physical attributes of the DS, causing doves to shed tears made of tiny rainbows. Even more occasionally, a developer hits all the buttons of the DS hardware and couples that with an engrossing, challenging and down right wonderful game. Scribblenauts is one of those games.

Scribblenauts is a side scrolling puzzle game, handing out tasks ranging from destroying a rat infestation to restoring a lost lamb to its flock. As Maxwell the protagonist, you can leap and bound around the colourful scenery, and interact with key objects in the world. Nothing amazing there. Until, that is, you rip open your notepad and start scrawling. If you’re anything like me, frustrating parts in games are often cursed aloud – ‘If only I could just drive a tank through that!’ or ‘this game is in serious need of a jetpack’. Scribblenauts gives you the power to invoke almost any physical object you could ever dream of to help you out. It might sound outlandish that a tiny DS cartridge could hold the world’s physical properties for you to exploit like some giddy Pandora, but it’s true. With an estimated 15,000 unique items at your disposal, the game is literally bound only by your imagination.

Scribblenauts developers diary

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:58:00 +1200

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has released a new video for Scribblenauts on the Nintendo DS.

Scribblenauts Accolades trailer

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:04:00 +1200

Warner Bros. have released a new trailer for Scribblenauts, a DS game in which you must use the touch-screen to help your character Maxwell acquire the starite in each level by solving a series of puzzles.

Scribblenauts

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:13:00 +1200

Every now and again, a game is released that blurs the line between educational software and mindless entertainment.

Most children of the 80's fortunate enough to attend a school that required both hands to count the decile rating will remember Granny's Garden, Dread Dragon Droom and the excellent Carmen Sandiego series. Even games that had no pretensions towards any specific education often taught a great deal about history or geography, like Civilisation, North & South, and Age of Empires. If you want someone to learn something, it seems, the best way is to make it fun.

Developers 5th Cell have grasped this concept of eduction-through-osmosis superbly with Scribblenauts. Originally shown at E3 this year to a rather unprepared media contingent who had to quickly fashion new "best in show" award trophies with Nintendo logos on them, the games theme is "Write Anything, Solve Everything". Using the DS touch screen and stylus, you do just that to allow the hero Maxwell to walk, swim or fly through a series of puzzles and gain a "Starite" token required to pass each level.

Scribblenauts - screenshots

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:54:00 +1200

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Scribblenauts trailer

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:16:00 +1200

Your creativity and imagination will be tested in Scribblenauts, the new and original puzzle game for Nintendo DS from developer 5th Cell.

Scribblenauts

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:39:00 +1200

Scribblenauts, a puzzle game for the Nintendo DS with an interesting twist to it, could well be one of the hit games coming out of this year’s E3.

On show at the Warner Brothers Interactive stand, the pint-sized puzzler comes from Seattle-based developer 5th Cell where the ultimate objective is to collect things called Starites.

This is how it works: a scene on the DS’s touch screen shows a puzzle, say a cat stuck on the roof of a house. Your job is to get the cat down, but you do that by – and here’s the really cool part – by writing what item you’d like you use.