A quick one today, busyman demonstrates six ways to crash Scribblenauts games. To remind: Scribblenauts is a game where you have a magic notebook that creates things you write in it, if you just know the word for it. It’s one of a very small number of games that attempt to be exhaustive over some domain: if you know the word for it, then there’s likely to be an object in Scribblenauts if you try to create it. This required a great deal of work to realize, but worked well enough that they even could include some memes in its huge database. “Loituma Girl” is demonstrated in the below video (4½ minutes).
Starting with its sequel Super Scribblenauts, they’re also adjectives in the game. This video seems to be from a version with adjectives: one of the objects is “resurrective dark matter,” although attempts to find resurrective in a dictionary will probably fail.
Because Scribblenauts games contain thousands of items, some with unique properties, finding all the ways that they adversely interact would be very difficult. The above video demonstrates six ways that they can be brought together in order to crash the game.
