Have you been playing your DS like I asked you? For shame. You’re officially running out of reasons not to pick up the touch-screen wonder as Scribblenauts is coming out in the middle of September.

Scribblenauts is one of the most promising game concepts I’ve seen. You are tasked with helping Maxwell, the protagonist, find Starites, little…well stars. The game is divided into action stages where the Starites are clearly visible and just involve grabbing them in any way possible, and puzzle stages where you have to figure out how to make the Starite appear.

The method of gameplay revolves around typing in any proper noun you can think of to make said item appear. The game has roughly 10,000 words programmed into it, so you have quite a few options to choose from.

Cruise your way to victory young Maxwell.

Does that not sound appealing yet? Think of a noun? Bam, probably in the game. Cactus? Bet it’s in the game. Canoe? In there. Turtle Shell? Rutabaga? Sasquatch? I’m willing to bet they’re all there and that you’ll be able to find at least one situation where you could make use of them.

Here’s a concept: Say you need to get across a cliff. How do you do that? You could type in “Helicopter” and fly across. You could type in “Rope” and swing across. Or you could type in all sorts of things and attempt to fill the gap with whales and dinosaurs and jet skis and then just walk across.

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