Scribblenauts entered E3 as an unknown and transformed into a must-have game on the back of the buzz generated by its showing there. Four months later, it's a tentpole Nintendo DS game that gamers everywhere are familiar with.
It's the third Nintendo DS game from developer 5th Cell, which built its expertise developing mobile titles but has, more recently, pursued a strategy of making original DS IP. Where did that idea come from? And what is the strategy of the 5th Cell, growing its business on the back of unconventional hits like Scribblenauts?
Here, co-founder Jeremiah Slaczka lays it all out for Gamasutra, including the company's future plans -- including Xbox Live Arcade development -- and why he refused to create the SpongeBob and Wii versions of Drawn to Life.
Scribblenauts has long been a series lauded for its wealth of adjectives and nouns. Sometimes, it's astounding to discover exactly how far this can go, and that's why we have gone to the trouble of scouring for the most obscure and curious words that somehow yield results.
Matt from FuzzyPixels presents a list of the top five puzzle games of all time, as well as handing out a couple of special awards.
Having recently found out about Scribblenauts, the fate of 5th Cell is hard to witness.
the problem of scribblenauts is that it just couldn't work on Playstation/Xbox... Nintendo, PC and Mobile was not enough to support the franchise
Why wouldn't it? Think it would work great with the PlayStation second screen app. Doesn't Xbox have something similar too? Use the phone or tablet to type and the controller to play.
I'm not real sure a 2nd screen is even necessary. I've only played the DC Comics one, but they could have easily mapped all of the buttons from the touch screen to a controller to pull up the menus.....
