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[BorkBork]

I have nothing but reservations about this game. Lock's Quest was an incredibly good idea with meh execution. This is an incredibly incredible idea, but who knows about the final product. I've got complete faith that the "gimmick" will not be, that it'll be totally awesome and the coolest thing ever. The actual game though, I've got my doubts. I have the highest of hopes that beyond the item-creation process that is getting all the focus, this thing is incredibly well developed and thought out. It needs something like an Advance Wars amount of content.

Not to rag on you, but I'm not sure what you're looking for that would help you "seal the deal". There's nothing complicated to the game. It's all based on what you can dream up and see if those things can help you solve a very basic problem.

Advance Wars amount of content? What does that mean? It has more than 200 levels. Even if each is just filled with a couple of funky obstacles, it would still be immensely rewarding to think up different ways to solve the puzzles.

 

[Masklinn]

a sigularity is 1d? :O

Actually a singularity would be 0d (1d is a line).

In reality, and if we're talking about gravitational singularities (black holes) it's more complex, they have a mass, they probably have a size and they have an event horizon (which is why you can't see their size: light can't escape the event horizon and that horizon is larger than the object's size, though there theroretically are singularities without event horizons, called "naked singularities")

 

[Dever]

What happens if you write Scribblenaut in Scribblenauts?

 

[Jocchan]

What happens if you write Scribblenaut in Scribblenauts?

Xzibit Another Maxwell (the main character) spawns.

 

[Xater]

Cthulhu is definitely in. It's in one of the videos.

I was so giddy when I saw that on Co-Op.

 

[Haunted]

The game's lead designer was hanging over our shoulder as we entered in this unrecognized word. He quickly asked what it was, pulled out his phone and feverishly sent some unknown party a text message. "Okay," he said. "It'll be in the final product."

I fucking love this. :lol

Post #217 did not disappoint. I would have gone with holy water, but still. That's amazing. This solidifies it as my most anticipated DS title.

That's for vampires, not zombies.

 

[fresquito]

This game, if it delivers, will become my fave game ever, probably. I mean, I'm thinking of solutions, different solutions to the problems that I've seen, and that's without the game in front of me. I'm playing the game even without having it!

On the zombies side, could you just type "pit" and "brain" and make them fall to the pit? Would adding "lava" make them die?

This game is nuts. I'm so buying it.

 

[Barrett2]

When does this game release?

 

[SovanJedi]

I fucking love this. :lol

Me too. It's like Scribblenauts FBI.

Wait, Plumbobs are real things? I thought they were just the green crystal cursors in the Sims games. Maybe they didn't initially include it because they thought it was a copyrighted item.

 

[CTLance]

And to think all of this is possible on a 66+33MHz dualcore system with 4 Megs of RAM. It's insane.

 

[Jedeye Sniv]

I fucking love this. :lol



That's for vampires, not zombies.

And if you wanna kill a vampire, just spawn a vampire hunter, obviously!

 

[Jocchan]

And if you wanna kill a vampire, just spawn a vampire hunter, obviously!

But who hunts vampire hunters?

 

[mclem]

How about Large Hadron Collider? If you summon it and turn it on, does it delete all your save data?

Heck, why go so to so much effort? Just type "HIGGS BOSON" and cut out the middlema... er... middle large scientific facility.

 

[deepbrown]

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/8q41g/best_game_of_e3_without_a_fucking_doubt_anyone/

:lol

 

[xfactor]

I have nothing but reservations about this game. Lock's Quest was an incredibly good idea with meh execution. This is an incredibly incredible idea, but who knows about the final product. I've got complete faith that the "gimmick" will not be, that it'll be totally awesome and the coolest thing ever. The actual game though, I've got my doubts. I have the highest of hopes that beyond the item-creation process that is getting all the focus, this thing is incredibly well developed and thought out. It needs something like an Advance Wars amount of content.

Meh execution my ass. Lock's Quest is one of the better defense tower games of video gaming.

And what do you mean by 'Advance Wars' amount of content? How do you compare the content of a strategy game to a puzzle adventure game really?

 

[deadhorse32]

:lol @ post 217

 

[Battlezone]

I hereby nominate "Post 217" as a new meme to be used to describe something so incredibly awesome, there are no actual English words to describe it.

 

[manueldelalas]

I have nothing but reservations about this game. Lock's Quest was an incredibly good idea with meh execution. This is an incredibly incredible idea, but who knows about the final product. I've got complete faith that the "gimmick" will not be, that it'll be totally awesome and the coolest thing ever. The actual game though, I've got my doubts. I have the highest of hopes that beyond the item-creation process that is getting all the focus, this thing is incredibly well developed and thought out. It needs something like an Advance Wars amount of content.

You didn't like Professor Layton, so anything you say is automatically invalid.

Here, I have the title for your next thread: "Does Prof Layton Scribblenauts & The Magic School Bus ever stop sucking?

Never forget...

 

[Twig]

You didn't like Professor Layton, so anything you say is automatically invalid.

Here, I have the title for your next thread: "Does Prof Layton Scribblenauts & The Magic School Bus ever stop sucking?

Never forget...

o snap

 

[Ramenman]

Jackson, like others have also said, I just want to commend you on this game. I seriously can't stop laughing everytime I read impressions and watch the videos. I can't wait to get a copy of it and start messing around. If there is a sequel someday, have you considered any type of multiplayer? I can only imagine the possibility of simultaneous scribble-battle-contests whatever with friends. Man, whatever you come up with I'm sure it'll be great.

For multiplayer actually only a multiplayer sandbox would be the best thing ever.

Simple mathematics : Sandbox mode = best thing ever.

Sandbox mode * (number of players) = EVEN MORE the best thing ever

 

[Xater]

But who hunts vampire hunters?

Chuck Norris?

Did anyone try that?

 

[Mistouze]

Just posting to say that post #217 sold me on this. A FUCKING TIME MACHINE FOR FUCKS SAKE!!

Is raptor jesus in the game? That would be rad.

 

[GDGF]

Just posting to say that post #217 sold me on this. A FUCKING TIME MACHINE FOR FUCKS SAKE!!

Is raptor jesus in the game? That would be rad.

I wish they'd do that. If they want to get around the whole Jesus thing they could call him raptor messiah.

 

[Visualante]

Just posting to say that post #217 sold me on this. A FUCKING TIME MACHINE FOR FUCKS SAKE!!

Is raptor jesus in the game? That would be rad.

Let the game become it's own meme instead of pumping it with other shitty internet in-jokes.

 

[Haunted]

Yeah, I'm a bit confused about Einstein being in the game if proper nouns supposedly aren't.

Is he just an exception, or are there more celebrities in the game?

 

[Ramenman]

Oh, and about God beating everything, someone mentioned apparently Death beats God (lame). But I forget if anything can get rid of Death.

Well watch the dev walkthrough on Gametrailers, you can hook death with a grappling hook.

Most certainly it will prevent her from hurting God.

 

[GDGF]

I wonder if I can make 99 red balloons? I've seen the super high tech jet fighter.

(yeah take a guess what song just came up on my MP3 player)

 

[Souldriver]

I have no fucking clue how a game like that can possibly work.

I mean, lets say it recognizes 10,000 words. And lets say one word *does something* when you connect it to another 1/3 of the other words: 3,000. That means that there are 10,000^3,000, or *ma error* possible relations between objects that have to be programmed. I am undoubtedly wrong in thinking this, but still: how the fuck do you make a game where every word that is recognized has to be able to naturally connect or react to any other word??!!!????

This shit is like the "Space, the final frontier" Thread on the OT side: it blows my mind.

 

[Graphics Horse]

I have no fucking clue how a game like that can possibly work.

I mean, lets say it recognizes 10,000 words. And lets say one word *does something* when you connect it to another 1/3 of the other words: 3,000. That means that there are 10,000^3,000, or *ma error* possible relations between objects that have to be programmed. I am undoubtedly wrong in thinking this, but still: how the fuck do you make a game where every word that is recognized has to be able to naturally connect or react to any other word??!!!????

This shit is like the "Space, the final frontier" Thread on the OT side: it blows my mind.

It's not that complicated, read the description of Objectnaut wherever it is. Basically, cats like to eat fish. A cod is a type of fish, so therefore cats like cod.

 

[Souldriver]

It's not that complicated, read the description of Objectnaut wherever it is. Basically, cats like to eat fish. A cod is a type of fish, so therefore cats like cod.

I'm guessing if you work out a system with all possible actions an object can do, it reduces the amount of possible relations between objects you have to individually program. Still, it sounds like a massive amount of work.

 

[McLovin]

I had played all the big titles at E3. Private showings of God of War III, Heavy Rain, Alan Wake. But at 4:00 on Thursday, I was wandering around the show floor, wondering what else I had to see. I saw a small little booth for "Scribblenauts!" in the Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment section. I mean, who goes to that booth? But I remember hearing about it on GAF, and so I decided to check it out.

Best game of E3? Without a fucking doubt. Anyone who says otherwise did not play Scribblenauts. Best game of all time? Jesus Christ, I don't know, maybe. It's a game that challenges your IMAGINATION. No other game has ever done that.

So listen to this story. I was in the early levels; I didn't quite have an idea of how ridiculously in-depth the database was. I was summoning things like ladders, glasses of water, rayguns, what have you. But I reached a level with zombie robots, and the zombie robots kept killing me. Rayguns didn't work, a torch didn't work, a pickaxe didn't work. In my frustration, I wrote in "Time Machine". And one popped up. What the fuck? A smile dawned on my face. I hopped in, and the option was given to me to either travel to the past or the future. I chose past. When I hopped out, there were fucking dinosaurs walking around. I clicked one, and realized I could RIDE THEM. So I hopped on a fucking DINOSAUR, traveled back to the present, and stomped the shit out of robot zombies. Did you just read that sentence? Did you really? I FUCKING TRAVELED THROUGH TIME AND JUMPED ON A DINOSAUR AND USED IT TO KILL MOTHERFUCKING ROBOT ZOMBIES. This game is unbelievable. Impossible. There's nothing you can't do.

Holy fucking shit.

Jesus Christ! I'm not a big DS guy but I have to get this.

 

[Conrad Link]

How is a game like this even possible? :lol

Sounds fantastic, my GF got into Drawn to Life so I know she'll love this.

 

[evilromero]

I wonder if I can make 99 red balloons? I've seen the super high tech jet fighter.

(yeah take a guess what song just came up on my MP3 player)

Jet City Woman? Top Gun?

 

[CrunchinJelly]

I'm pretty sure they would include earth, fire, wind, water and a heart, but what will happen when you combine them all?

 

[Throwaway123456789]

a sigularity is 1d? :O

you just blew my mind. it's literally the smallest thing possible? so small it cannot have length and width?

Yup. A singularity is basically what's in the center of a black hole (we usually call the event horizon, or the "blackness" around it a black hole, but the black hole itself is a singularity). Scientific theories and observations tells us that the singularity has no width, length or height, but still has an enormous mass. Since the laws of physics tells us no such object can exist, people often use the planck constant or length to describe its size, since it's the absolute smallest possible measure that could exist. (The size of the singularity would then be 1x1x1 Planck lenghts, or 0.000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 016 2 meters^3)

It's 1D in that it's just a point in space.

 

[AceBandage]

I wonder if license characters will be in the game.
Like, say, you summon Master Chief and have him fight Samus.

 

[Masklinn]

It's 1D in that it's just a point in space.

ONE-DIMENSIONAL SPACE IS NOT A POINT IT'S A LINE

 

[Guybrush Threepwood]

Wow, are they allowed to put CP in their game?

 

[CrunchinJelly]

Wow, are they allowed to put CP in their game?

I doubt it. Captain Planet was just the first thing that went in to my head when I saw that question. :lol

 

[TunaMarshmallow]

Can you create all of the different elements? And, if so, do they interact with each other appropriately?

 

[Moz La Punk]

Hey Jackson, so you're from 5th Cell? Can you confirm, cause I'm very hyped for this game and I also write for one of the biggest videogame websites in the Netherlands. I would love to ask some questions and generate more attention for your game. =)

 

[Haunted]

Hey Jackson, so you're from 5th Cell? Can you confirm, cause I'm very hyped for this game and I also write for one of the biggest videogame websites in the Netherlands. I would love to ask some questions and generate more attention for your game. =)

He's the (co)founder of 5th Cell, actually.

 

[SovanJedi]

You can always just type "Captain" then "Planet" then glue the two together.

Or "Captain" and "Falcon" for equally interesting results. Messy, but interesting!

(Yes, I am going to mess around with gluing EVERYTHING to everything else.)

 

[Twig]

I'm guessing if you work out a system with all possible actions an object can do, it reduces the amount of possible relations between objects you have to individually program. Still, it sounds like a massive amount of work.

Basically what you do is have an object "type".

So let's say...

Animal. From animal you get Mammal, Fish, Bird, Bug, maybe some other classifications, depending. Then you get more and more specific.

As other dude said, a cat likes all fish. A cat is a mammal is an animal. A goldfish is a fish is an animal.

(I would enjoy it if whale was (mistakenly, obviously) classified as a fish for simplicity and a cat ate it.)

A flamethrower, a machine gun, a baseball bat is a "usable object." A God, an Einstein, a boy, a girl, is a... "person."

Yeah there's a lot of possibilities, but not near as much as you originally thought. The relationships are based on object TYPES, not each specific object. At least, assuming that's how they did it. That's how I'd do it. Surely they'd be much more efficient about it than what I'm imagining in like two minutes.

 

[vareon]

Wow, are they allowed to put CP in their game?

It would be actually funny to find every copyright holders buying this game only to find whether their copyrighted items made into this game.

 

[Azure J]

I hereby nominate "Post 217" as a new meme to be used to describe something so incredibly awesome, there are no actual English words to describe it.

Fucking seconded. :lol

 

[Twig]

I'm no expert on copyright laws, but why wouldn't that fall under "fair use" or whatever it's called?

 

[Red]

Holy fucking shit.

Truly.

 

[Moz La Punk]

He's the (co)founder of 5th Cell, actually.

well shit. no better man to answer some questions than him I guess! or maybe he can get me in contact with the right person. at any rate if you're interested, pm. I know I'm interested

 

[GDGF]

This is truly a sight to behold. I do believe that when all is said and done this game will be remembered as one of the shining stars of the DS generation. Everybody should play it. Cats, dogs, pensioners, babies, porn stars, prudes, canadians et all...

Spread the word.