Scribblenauts

In Scribblenauts, you play as a boy named Maxwell who can summon physical objects via a notepad. In addition to the main puzzle mode, the game also features a sandbox mode and a level creator, where you can summon tons of different objects to mess around with.

Unused Music#

To do: Big Tiny seems to have an audio glitch near the end of its loop. Should we-rip?

Four unused level select tracks go unused for levels Big Tiny, New Frontier, Shoreline, and Zoo. In the final game, only one level select track plays.

New Frontier

Big Tiny

Shoreline

Zoo

Unused Graphics#

Merit Icons#

To do: The Pi merit is technically unused in the original game due to its requirements not being achievable. Document it here?

Eight Merit icons go unused. The corresponding Merit names are also still in the game's text:

"BOGEYMAN"
"JOKER"
"LONG YAWN"
"NO VEHICLES"
"RECYCLER"
"WELLREAD"
"WORLD UNDER PAR"
"YAWN"

The descriptions of these merits have all been removed, having been replaced with "MERIT WAS CUT."

Female Maxwell#

This unused character, who resembles a female Maxwell, can be found in both this game and its sequel, Super Scribblenauts. Scribblenauts Unlimited would introduce a female counterpart to Maxwell, his twin sister Lily, albeit with a radically different design. The Female Clone from Unlimited does noticeably resemble this unused design, though.

Regional Differences#

The Japanese version of the game was published by Konami, who decided to add a bunch of their characters that can be summoned through the notebook. Nearly all of these are also present in the Japanese version of Super Scribblenauts, with a few exceptions as detailed on that game's page.

Solid Snake, Old Snake and Big Boss (Metal Gear). They carry a Dart Gun, Assault Rifle and Gun object respectively.

Goemon and Ebisumaru (Ganbare Goemon).

Alucard (Castlevania). Yeah, no Belmonts oddly enough.

Pawapuro-kun (Power Pros). Comes with a Baseball bat (but don't bother trying to pitch at him).

Shiori Fujisaki (Tokimeki Memorial).

Manaka Takane (LovePlus).

Vic Viper (Gradius). Maxwell can fly it; tapping anywhere on-screen will make the craft drop fireball objects in a trajectory similar to missiles in the Gradius series.

Mimi and Nyami (Pop'n Music).

Revisional Differences#

In January 2013, a single-card compilation of the game and Super Scribblenauts was released exclusively in North America, entitled Scribblenauts Collection. This version of the game has some minor differences from the original release:

• The player can control Maxwell with the D-Pad in addition to the touch screen, as with Super. To make up for this, the language selection was replaced with a control menu.
• Maxwell can stay in the air forever with any item that supports flight (i.e., wings), another change that was added for Super. Most flight-based items in the original version only last for 1.5 seconds and take about 4 seconds to recharge.
• Some minor bug fixes, such as the Pi Merit now being obtainable.
• The removal of the "Lol Wut" item (which generated a large Maxwell head that can be worn as headgear). The reason why this specific item was removed is unknown.

References#