See Keyboard Cat in Scribblenauts!
Plus nine other cool items in our vi🐼deo and preview
Simply bring up the onscreen keyboard, t🦋ype in your required item, and there💞 it is, ready to use. There's even text recognition, though it's not as easy to use as the keyboard. You can type in virtually anything - and that's where the fun lies:
But how does the game use all these items? Well, imagine you see aStarite sitting at the top of a tree. Type the word 'axe' into the on-screen keyboard, whichMaxwell then uses to cut down the tre𒈔e, bring the Starite with it.Or, you could type in 'Lumberjack' and a lit𝓡tle lumberjack appears, picking up the axe and felling the tree for you.
But don't think you can get through the game using the simplest solution every time. Once you've used something in one🍌 level, you can't necessarily use it again. So for instance, to beat the above problem, you can type in 'Unicycle', 'Panda', 'Panda' again, 'Top Hat', 'Glue' and 'Plank'.
Sit one panda on the unicycle, the other panda on its shoulders, set the top hat on Maxwell, put glue on the top hat and stick the plank to it, then climb onto the top panda's shoulders. The unicycling panda ap🌜proaches the tree and th💫e plank knocks down the starite. Er... simple?
But how far does the item creation go? We're told there are thousands of words that can be put in, although some will produce the same results. For instance, 'hill' and 'small hill' both make a small hill.Nonetheless, it'svery impressive. The game's visual 🐽styleis a bit simplistic, but it's hard not to like. Especially when you type in 'Santa' and he starts throwing random🌃 toys at you, like Game Boys, Monopoly boards and... voodoo dolls. Yep, Santa's gone weird.
The ಌgame is set to be released this autumn. Until then, keep eating those iꦬmagination biscuits - you're going to need 'em.
10 July, 2009
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Justin was a GamesRadar staffer for 10 years but is now a freelancer, musician and videographer. He's big on retro, Sega and racing games (especially retro Sega racing games) and currently also writes for Play Magazine, Traxion.gg, PC Gamer and TopTenReviews, as well as running his own Y🎃ouTube channel. Having learned to love all platforms equally after Sega left the hardware industry (sniff), his favourite games include Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams, Zelda BotW, Sea of Thieves, Sega Rally Championship and෴ Treasure Island Dizzy.