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The studio spent nearly a year on the game, grappling with the challenge of a pointer-friendly keyboard, before the Wii U came along. Nintendo timed its visit well: 5th Cell was already developing a Scribblenauts game for Wii, trying to translate the DS game's stylus-based writing into something that worked well with a Wii Remote.

'We're very close to Nintendo and we've done very well on their platform, so they came by and showed us a prototype of the Wii U and said 'What do you think about it?'' 'We were actually, I think, the first North American developers to see the Wii U,' begins Slaczka, as he lays out the history of Unlimited's development over the phone. And if the Wii U hadn't come along, Scribblenauts Unlimited may have been a dramatically different game. Listening to Creative Director Jeremiah Slaczka describe the development process, though, those milestones sound more exciting than frightening.

ALL OBJECTS IN SCRIBBLE NAUTS UNLIMITED PC

Scariest of all, Scribblenauts Unlimited isn't just a Wii U game - it's launching simultaneously on Wii U and 3DS and hitting PC a mere week later. It's 5th Cell's first major console release, in fact: the developer has never shipped a game on a disc. It's the first launch title 5th Cell has created, meaning it's the first time it's dealt with the headaches and unknowns of pre-release hardware. Though the studio has been developing games for nearly 10 years, Scribblenauts Unlimited represents a trio of intimidating milestones. 5th Cell has released a Scribblenauts in September or October for the past three years, and there's only one reason the fourth game in the series is coming out a tad later this year, on November 13th: It's a launch title for Nintendo's Wii U.ДЇor 5th Cell, this is new. Series protagonist Maxwell and his magic notebook (where he thinks up objects and uses them to solve puzzles) are becoming holiday staples, even if they don't attract the attention of Call of Duty or Assassin's Creed.

Like clockwork, as blasts of red and orange signal the arrival of fall, independent developer 5th Cell releases a Scribblenauts game.

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