This is the second part in my series on what themes tie together my all-time favorite video games. In April 2008, Blogs of the Round Table discussed this topic, and I’m only just now catching up. One aspect of games that I’ve always appreciated is innovation. When a game comes out that does something totally […]

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World 5, The Shoreline in Scribblenauts is perhaps the most fun I’ve had yet with the game. I got a gold star on nearly every puzzle level. Partially because they were easy, but primarily because the levels were so damn interesting that I kept wanting to go back and complete them in different ways. I’ll […]

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Scribblenauts gives most people some truly transcendant moments of emergent gameplay – that’s what makes the game so great. This is the bright side of Scribblenauts – when you first realize that an elephant is afraid of a mouse or that a mirror really will cause medusa to turn to stone. But Scribblenauts also has […]

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The fourth world in Scribblenauts is entitled “Ancient”. Without spoiling any of the early game (worlds 1-3) for anoyone just starting the game, I’d like to discuss some things about the fourth world. If you’ve not made it all the way through, you may not want to read further for fear of spoilers. But if […]

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Welcome back! I’m Vince Clortho coming to you live from the Lungfishopolis Coliseum in beautiful downtown Lungfishopolis. With me here is color commentator Gordon Freeman, whose career as a sports announcer I can only imagine will be coming to an end soon. What? You know I’m telling the truth, Gordon! You haven’t said a word […]

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Hello, Scribblenauts fans! Welcome to the Scribblenauts Smackdown Semifinals. I’m Vince Clortho, with you on a beautiful Thursday here at the Lungfishopolis coliseum. The crowd here today is about double what we saw on Monday. With me here today, as always, is color commentator Gordon Freeman. There is quite a bit of anticipation about today’s […]

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Welcome back to the Scribblenauts Smackdown! It’s a big day today. We’ll be seeing the return of competitors from the first round. Favorites like the dragon and the kraken. I’m Vince Clortho, and I’m here again with color commentator Gordon Freeman to bring you the big second round of the Scribblenauts Smackdown. Our first match […]

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Hello once again, I’m Vince Clortho coming to you from the Lungfishopolis Coliseum for the second half of round one in the Scribblenauts Smackdown. Here with me is color commentator Gordon Freeman. We’ve got some fantastic matches lined up for today. Any favorites, Gordon? …okay, Gordon. Don’t look at me like that. So I’ve got […]

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Welcome to the Scribblenauts Smackdown! I’m Vince Clortho, and I’m here today in the Lungfishopolis Coliseum with color commentator Gordon Freeman. Say hi, Gordon. Okay! So Gordon needs to warm up. In the meantime, let me explain today’s event. We have sixteen competitors, sixteen of the toughest badasses we could find in Scribblenauts. They’ll be […]

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Aside from the sometimes-maddening movement controls, I’ve been enjoying Scribblenauts quite a bit, and I haven’t even finished World 3 yet. But as I was finishing up the second world, I began to realize that despite the game’s unlimited possiblities, I was getting a bit bored. I found myself re-using all the same objects from […]

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