Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has announced it will be publishing game developer
5TH Cell Media’s next DS adventure with drawing. Scribblenauts is a unique DS puzzle game from 5TH Cell Media, built upon their experience from games such as Drawn to Life and Lock’s Quest. It’s described as a “sandbox style game for all-age fun with two styles of gameplay and more than 200 levels.” Come up with a word for an object, which in turn makes it appear for you to use. Your goal is get a “starite” (star) using your own unique solution. The game trailer on this page shows it best.
“We’re excited to be working with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment to bring Scribblenauts to a wide range of gamers, so they can play something they’ve never experienced anywhere else,” said Jeremiah Slaczka, Creative Director and Co-Owner of 5TH Cell. “Scribblenauts is our biggest DS title to date and the culmination of our design knowledge and past experience creating original games.”
About Scribblenauts:
“In Scribblenauts, the player uses the Nintendo DS touch-screen to help his character, Maxwell, acquire the starite in each level by solving a series of puzzles. The twist is, in order to solve the puzzle, the player uses the stylus and notepad to write down the word for any object that comes to mind in order to reach the goal. Every object behaves as it would in the real world, and the player can combine countless objects together to create completely new behaviors. Every level has more than one written object to use as a solution, opening up the game to unlimited replay.”
See more on Scribblenauts here at the official website.
From Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
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Lock’s Quest is a Nintendo DS game coming from developer 5th Cell and publisher THQ’s “Play THQ” label on September 8, 2008. You may remember 5th Cell from another creative Nintendo DS game, Drawn To Life. Lock’s Quest places you in control of Lock, an Archineer (that’s part architect, part engineer), whose mission is to protect “Source Artifacts” from Lord Agony and his minions. They’ll be pounding away at your fortress, so you’ll need a strategy to fend off the invaders. Lock’s Quest is a blend of real time strategy and action gaming.
We have a preview video of Lock’s Quest, which helps demonstrate the Building Phase of the game. Check it out to see how designing your structure and fighting off enemies plays out in the DS game. See the “Building Phase” demo video below.
Building Mode:
-The top screen will be used as HUD and players can compile the draggable structures to quickly build the required structure and color it as desired with the stylus. Other manipulations such as rotation and decal are also very easy to use;
-Lock must build structures inside the village;
-Lock must construct all necessary defensive items to prepare the battle; each session has only about 2-minute for the players to prepare the upcoming invasion.
An overview of the game:
“In Lock’s Quest, players will assume the role of young hero Lock, as he defends his homeland from the imminent attack of robotic invaders. As an Archineer—part architect, part engineer—Lock uses his skills to build new structures around the sacred Source Artifacts with the ultimate goal of protecting them from the infiltrators. Players can utilize different materials such as stone, metal, or wood to create and design defense towers in the battle field. There are also quirky weapons such as quicksand traps and glue cannons that the player can use to attack enemies. Construction Combat: Lock’s Quest combines the action/adventure and life simulation genres in in a fast-paced broadly appealing game consisting of successive waves of building and battling. Elements of strategy and puzzle-solving are also incorporated to reward more sophisticated players. Players will be able to challenge friend through multi-card play.”
Watch for more on Lock’s Quest here soon!
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