This game looks insane.

Remember the Nethack development team, and how it has "thought of everything"? Well, here is a game that is attempting to do that in a very literal sense.

This is Scribblenauts, a new DS game being developed by 5th Cell (the developer behind Drawn to Life and Lock's Quest). It's not going to be released until fall of 2009, but it sounds like it will be worth the wait (and they're certainly going to need that much time to work on it).
Basically, you control this character, Maxwell, and you have to get shiny things. You use different objects to get to the shiny things. Sounds like a fairly regular puzzle platformer, right? But it's not.
See, you spawn every object you need to use by writing in its name. So if you want a doughnut, you write doughnut, and *poof*, you get a doughnut.
And the thing is, you can make anything. Absolutely anything. Apparently they've already spent several months just scanning through encyclopedias and compiling massive lists of basically every object in the known universe. They've obviously drawn the line at "anything vulgar" and "copyrighted material," but other than that, they claim to have thought of everything, even stuff that is "so obscure" that nobody would ever think of it unless they released a full list of objects in the game at some point (I am curious, though, about whether you could make something that does not actually exist, such as a dragon or a little green man or something).
Because of that, there's billions of ways to solve every puzzle.
In the video I saw (it's the only one there is right now; I hope they show more soon), the star that the player needs to collect was in a tree. It showed the level being solved in three different ways.
A ladder was spawned, so that it could be climbed up and the star could be reached.
Then a football was spawned and thrown so that it knocked down the star.
After that, a beaver was spawned, and it bit through the tree and knocked it down (along with the star).
At the end of the video, it showed someone attempting (and seemingly failing) to use a doughnut to lure a policeman into jumping at the star or something like that.
Apparently items can be combined, too. So you can make glue or something and attach multiple things together to make something more useful.

When I read about this, I was just thinking: "Seriously?!"
But apparently, it is real. It's crazy.
I'll definitely be watching this one; I hope they continue to show more videos and such.

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