Scribblenauts has been revealed by 5th Cell (who developed Drawn to Life and Lock’s Quest) exclusively for DS.
Scribblenauts is an ambitious project whose premise has you writing words to solve puzzles (collecting “Starites”) on levels. The hook though is that you are supposedly able to write anything and what you write will come to life and be used in the game (the game will automatically know what to do with the object).
Examples in the trailer show the player writing “football”, and then having the football drop into the world and using the football to knock the Starite down from a tree. Alternatively you can write ladder and use the latter to reach the Starite. Or you can write beaver and the beaver will cut the tree down.
It’ll be really interesting to see how far they take this premise and if you can truly use any word. I imagine that there are limitations or words that the game won’t recognize.
Either way, here is a trailer for Scribblenauts exclusively for DS.
IGN has much more information on the game in their exclusive interview with the developer so be sure to check that out!