Scribblenauts (video game)

Scribblenauts is a Nintendo DS game, developed by 5th Cell and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. It will be released on September 15, 2009 in North America and September 25, 2009 in Europe. The game grants the player the ability to summon any object and using it to solve a puzzle. Thousands upon thousands of items are available in the game, and they can be automatically summoned by typing them in via the keyboard or writing it out. The game is a first of its kind and has won numerous awards.

Development
Scribblenauts was thought up by Jeremiah Slaczka. He originally wanted to make a game where the player wrote a sentence and it appeared on screen, but thought it was to dull so evolved his idea into what Scribblenauts is now, a game where you write a word and use the object that you created to solve a puzzle. A total of 15 people worked on the game, with 5 of them spending six months going through a dictionary and creating the Objectnaut, a database of objects. This let them create an object using simple 3D geometric shapes, so they didn't need to draw sprites and animations for everything, and assign properties that decide how the object acts in the game when reacting with different things.