Scribblenauts
Series of puzzle video games by 5th Cell / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Scribblenauts is a series of action puzzle video games primarily developed by independent studio 5th Cell. The series is owned[2] and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. 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. Since the release of the first game, five other Scribblenauts games have been released, in addition to two compilations and two comic adaptations.
Scribblenauts | |
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Genre(s) | Action puzzle platform |
Developer(s) | |
Publisher(s) | Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment |
Creator(s) | Jeremiah Slaczka |
Artist(s) | Edison Yan[1] |
Composer(s) | David J. Franco |
Platform(s) | |
First release | Scribblenauts September 15, 2009 |
Latest release | Scribblenauts Showdown March 6, 2018 |
The Scribblenauts series primarily sees the player as Maxwell, a boy who has a magical notebook that summons anything he writes in it. Players are tasked with solving puzzles by summoning different items and creatures using the notebook, leading to emergent gameplay elements. 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.
Critical reception of the series has been generally positive, with critics praising how the series encourages creative thinking and the number of objects that can be summoned within the games. Some criticism has, however, been directed towards the lack of properties of objects, which some critics have felt restricted the player's creativity. By October 2015, the series had sold over 13 million copies across its different installments.[3]