Scribblenauts Reactions

[Bluewolf]

Haha that is not bad at all Lus. So I assume you type in a word and what you have chosen appears in form, or is there more to it than that?

[Bounty]

Haha that is not bad at all Lus. So I assume you type in a word and what you have chosen appears in form, or is there more to it than that?

You tap a dictionary icon, write or type a word, and it appears on-screen for you to drag to where it's needed. If the dictionary doesn't recognise a word it'll offer spelling suggestions.

[Bluewolf]

Ahh OK, again, thanks for telling me about this. It truely does sound interesting and I think if it sells well, we are bound to see a sequel of it.

[Lord Woodlouse]

From my understanding the main limitations are controversial and licensed words. Which is probably why fascist and crusader is not in there. l'd be curious to see if muslim, christian and jew are in there. l doubt it.

Sadly this also means my dreams of minigun wielding whores are out the window.

[loomer]

I just used a jetpack to save a kitty. I feel like my life is finally worth something.

A jetpack! I was tempted to try for string, but jetpack seemed more satisfying.

[GuppyShark]

It's fun but it gets pretty old, I'm glad I didn't rush out and buy a DS or anything for it.

Neat idea but the UI is pretty terrible. I spent ages trying to create snowballs.

[AniThyng]

From my understanding the main limitations are controversial and licensed words. Which is probably why fascist and crusader is not in there. l'd be curious to see if muslim, christian and jew are in there. l doubt it.

Sadly this also means my dreams of minigun wielding whores are out the window.

Imam, Rabbi and Priest are, though.


More "racist" fun (besides "malay" = bigfoot) : sambo = watermelon...

[Enigma]

No nazis?

[General Zod]

From my understanding the main limitations are controversial and licensed words. Which is probably why fascist and crusader is not in there. l'd be curious to see if muslim, christian and jew are in there. l doubt it.

Sadly this also means my dreams of minigun wielding whores are out the window.

Imam, Rabbi and Priest are, though.


More "racist" fun (besides "malay" = bigfoot) : sambo = watermelon...

Already explained

Reader Zachary spotted a rather unfortunate term in Scribblenauts entirely by accident: "sambo," which summons ... a watermelon. We thought there was no way 5TH Cell would intentionally hide racist, or even racially charged, imagery in its game, so we contacted creative director Jeremiah Slaczka to figure out what happened.

It turns out that like Zachary's discovery, the item was an unfortunate accident. Slaczka explained to Joystiq that "sambo" is used in the game as an alternate term for "fig leaf gourd," an ingredient in the Ecuadorian dish fanesca. "Sambo" is the local term for the gourd. As for the watermelon-like appearance? "We reuse art," he said. "Fig leaf gourd looks a lot like a watermelon. It's just an alternative name in a giant list of tens of thousands of names."

Slaczka noted, offering evidence to the contrary of calls of racism, that many of the human characters in the game, including the fireman, winemaker, and dancer, manifest as black, as does "Brandon," the in-game representation of a 5TH Cell "wordsmith" (one of the employees tasked with finding words for the database), who is of course black in real life. He also mentioned Isaiah, a major character in the developer's last game Lock's Quest.

We must admit, a random, potentially slightly embarrassing art/word pairing in the game seems a lot more likely to us than endemic racism expressed through antiquated epithets. Slaczka told us he didn't even know "sambo" (the slur, not the gourd) until tonight.

[Starglider]

It's fun but it gets pretty old, I'm glad I didn't rush out and buy a DS or anything for it.

Neat idea but the UI is pretty terrible. I spent ages trying to create snowballs.

Sounds like someone just needs to make a big-budget game that combines the best features of this and Little Big Planet.

[AniThyng]

Already explained

Okay, I can buy that. I'm still curious on "malay" though. (yeah, I know I linked it to the Bigfoot hunt myself, but still.)

[darthdavid]

This game rocks. It gave me a hoverboard!

[Archaic`]

From my understanding the main limitations are controversial and licensed words. Which is probably why fascist and crusader is not in there. l'd be curious to see if muslim, christian and jew are in there. l doubt it.

Sadly this also means my dreams of minigun wielding whores are out the window.

Imam, Rabbi and Priest are, though.

Atheist is as well, apparently.

[Oscar Wilde]

Complete list of 22,802 words

[General Zod]

Complete list of 22,802 words

The devs have already denounced that particular list is nowhere near complete.

[SAMAS]

I love the fact that you can just play around on the title screen. Like making a mecha fight with a T.Rex.

[Rekkon]

I just killed god with a raptor, though I did try 'Nietzsche' first. It seems like all the deities die pretty conventionally, though most of them get along pretty well as discovered when I tried get a god/Zeus/Ra smackdown going.

And in an attempt to find new ways to get to high places rather than the default jet pack, I asked for a "human cannon." But instead of letting me get inside, it just shot out a clown.

[PeZook]

I just use wings to get to high places.

[General Zod]

I just killed god with a raptor, though I did try 'Nietzsche' first. It seems like all the deities die pretty conventionally, though most of them get along pretty well as discovered when I tried get a god/Zeus/Ra smackdown going.

And in an attempt to find new ways to get to high places rather than the default jet pack, I asked for a "human cannon." But instead of letting me get inside, it just shot out a clown.

I wind up using Pegasus quite a bit. Helicopters, Pterodactyls and UFOs can do the trick when you have a lot of room to work with.

[Stark]

Sounds like someone just needs to make a big-budget game that combines the best features of this and Little Big Planet.

But it'd be useless with out nazis. Right?

[SAMAS]

I just notice something:

In the first Seaside mission, where you have to help a sailor off the island, the water goes down pretty darn deep. So I scrolled all the way down, and... HOLY HANNA!!

[General Zod]

I just notice something:

In the first Seaside mission, where you have to help a sailor off the island, the water goes down pretty darn deep. So I scrolled all the way down, and... HOLY HANNA!!

Heh, I never noticed that when I first played through it. Probably because that mission was so easy.

[Starglider]

Sounds like someone just needs to make a big-budget game that combines the best features of this and Little Big Planet.

But it'd be useless with out nazis. Right?

Wrong. It would be useless without catgirls. Obviously I take the absence of said entity from the above linked word list to be a personal and unforgivable insult from the devs.