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Scribblenauts Preview/Impressions Thread - You will say "wow." (see post #217)
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Pseudo_Sam
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Draft said:
The DS's touchscreen?
Just a thought experiment: We're talking far in excess of 5000 manhours here, if that's the case. There are tens of thousands of objects according to the devs, so at the very least we'll get 20k.ZealousD said:
20 000 * 15 / 60 = 5 000
That is some serious work right there. So don't think it's all that easy to make. A single guy would work for nearly one and a half year day in, day out (assuming 10 hours of productiveness per day and no holidays or weekends) - and that's a seriously optimistic best-case estimate. Keep in mind that this would only account for some of the assets of objectnaut, not the game itself.
I do believe that Jackson & Co are faster (and smarter) than that, but it doesn't diminish the amount of work that they put into this project. Just think about it. Tens of thousands of objects. It's a nightmare even if every object is done within fifteen seconds (which would be a ridiculous assumption). There's still the entire game that would need to be coded, with level editor, online sharing, touchscreen implementation, scoring, achievements, and all the other crap they managed to stuff in there.
evilromero
Member
This will never leave my DS! Once it's in that is.
gnarkill bill
Member
I may rebuy a DS just for this. Looks so awesome.
OKAY GAF LET'S SPREAD THE LOVE !
As you can see this neat bunch of artworks from Nintendo Power has a lot of potential uses, I made few avatars out of it.
I've mainly done the Human-shaped ones (they fit the avatar's proportions the most), I may do some more but not right now.
They all fit the avatar size restrictions, and they're hosted on tinypic so you can hotlink them right away.
As you can see this neat bunch of artworks from Nintendo Power has a lot of potential uses, I made few avatars out of it.
I've mainly done the Human-shaped ones (they fit the avatar's proportions the most), I may do some more but not right now.
They all fit the avatar size restrictions, and they're hosted on tinypic so you can hotlink them right away.
Bluemercury
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Y2Kev said:
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Pseudo_Sam
Survives without air, food, or water
Ghost'ed
Eteric Rice
Member
Samurai is mine! 
I took Travis, you can live vicariously through me.CTLance said:
Oh shit, I didn't notice Travis was in the game!
... I want to call dibs, but so far I've never changed my avatar beyond simple shops. Someone please change theirs, so that I can live vicariously through them.
That was convenient, I had been needing an avatar for a while but was too lazy.
Scribblenauts is educational. I don't think I ever knew what a kappa was before this thread.Charred Greyface said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappa_(folklore)
Eteric Rice
Member
I hope that the flying spaghetti monster is in, with his noodly appendages. :lol
B_Rik_Schitthaus
Banned
Objection!!!alanias said:I'll take the suit!
I don't think that's the important thing. If you pay atention, it's being creative which is fun. You only need a pool with a shark to end up being chased by shadowy asassins that get blown (with the entire level) as you shot a nuke by mistake with your laser rifle. The important thing will be thinking out of the box.Gattsu25 said:
Eteric Rice
Member
What if you type in "Pandora's Box?"
:O
:O
Gattsu25 said:
Well there's something like 220 of them so their smallness isn't much of an issue.
They could have made longer levels with multiple obstacles/puzzles/challenges, but the big point of the game is finding the craziest way to achieve each puzzle/challenge by replaying them to death, so I guess "lots of little levels" is more fitting to this approach (that's just me though).
