16 Facts About Scribblenauts

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Scribblenauts is a series of action puzzle video games primarily developed by 5th Cell.

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The first game in the series was titled Scribblenauts and was first released on September 15,2009, in North America, exclusively on the Nintendo DS.

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Since the release of the first game, five other Scribblenauts games have been released, in addition to two compilations and two comic adaptations.

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The sixth and latest installment in the series, Scribblenauts Showdown, has significantly different gameplay than other entries, with it being more of a party game, rather than an action puzzle game.

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5.

Scribblenauts was later available as a playable demo at E3 2009, where its presence received numerous awards and honors.

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6.

Scribblenauts released in September 2009 in North America, exclusively for the Nintendo DS.

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Since, five other games in the Scribblenauts series has been released for multiple different platforms.

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8.

The series has 2 canceled games, first being Scribblenauts: Fighting Words, which began development in 2014 and was canceled in March 2016 after the lay off of forty-five 5th Cell employees.

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Scribblenauts is a series of emergent puzzle games, where players primarily take control of a young boy named Maxwell, who has a magical notebook that summons anything he writes in it.

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10.

Puzzles in Scribblenauts typically have multiple different solutions, with players being encouraged to use out-of-the-box ideas.

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11.

General concept of Scribblenauts was that "anything you write, you can use", with 5th Cell spending three months just listing different objects to be added to the game.

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12.

Ian Bonds of Destructoid, reviewing Scribblenauts Unmasked, wrote that the game promotes creativity, but only creativity that the game designers intended.

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Club John Teti, reviewing the original Scribblenauts game, felt that most objects are pointless, noting one scenario where a plumber with a wrench wouldn't fix a leaking pipe.

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Casey Malone of Paste wrote that Scribblenauts has an adorable art style, describing it as being akin to paper dolls.

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IGN Chuck Osborn, reviewing Scribblenauts Unmasked, felt that the series' "cutesy art style and presentation" made it clear that the games can be enjoyed by different age demographics, opining that even DC Comics characters such as Doomsday and Mr Zsasz, who are normally "bloodthirsty killers", become adorable when in the series' art style.

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Scribblenauts Showdown is generally considered the worst game in the series by critics, who felt that the game restricted the player's creativity by limiting the objects usable in a minigame.

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