Scribblenauts is kind of an action-puzzle/sandbox game being created by the makers of Drawn to Life and Lock's Quest. In it, you can write down the name of any object, and that object becomes summoned in the game to be used however you want. You use these objects to deal with enemies and overcome obstacles to collect a star at the end of each level. Though of course, no "vulgar" or copyrighted objects will be allowed.

IGN has a big interview and some simple gameplay footage. I love the concept and adore the art style. I am quite interested in, say, catapulting a tank at a colony of vampire bats.

"We've got this tool that we created in-house called "Objectnaut", so now designers can put in any name of any object, and put in all sorts of data. We're talking AI properties, physical properties, attraction and repulsion to other objects, weight, size, where it splits, can you pick it up, is it flammable or how do elements effect it… really all these things that you need."

"I mean we've spent three months of just hardcore list-making. A gigantic excel sheet of just going through dictionaries, and going through encyclopedias, and just grabbing anything and everything there is to get. Find and define every object. We have things in here that are so obscure that I don't think people are going to ever find them unless we release official lists someday. People won't write half the things that exist in this game because they're so obscure. You just don't think of them."

"As for combining things together though yeah, if you can think about it you can do it. You can take like a piece of meat and ride a dinosaur like you said, there's of course glue, rope, nails, tape, so you can attach things in that way."

Due Fall '09