This is made by 5th cell, the guys who made Drawn to Life.

http://au.ds.ign.com/articles/936/936157p1.html

Basic premise:

What Scribblenauts is about in a nutshell is basically "Anything you write, you can use." That's where the concept really came from. It's the idea of "What if you had all these puzzles, and in order to solve them you can write anything; the limit is your imagination." How you do that is through this character Maxwell. As Maxwell you have to grab in-level objects called Starites, and to do that you can write anything you want, and it'll spawn that object. So if there's a Starite in the tree, you could write "ladder" and then a ladder would spawn. Climb up the ladder, and you grab the Starite.

TRY AND CONVINCE ME THAT IS NOT AWESOME

O_o must buy game...

Gameplay video here:

http://ds.ign.com/dor/objects/14304256/scribblenauts/videos/Scribblenauts_new2_120508.html

Since it won't embed.

I wonder how many nouns it recognizes...

The answer is apparently "thousands." Someone asked the designer if these were in the game, off the top of his head:

* Beer
* Mongoose
* Thimble
* Moped
* Inkwell
* Coaster
* Pliers
* Kumquat

The answer to all of these random possibilities was "yes."

Hmmm Beer will be used a lot I have the feeling...

awesome idea!

....ALL RIGHT EVERYBODY

WE'RE DONE HERE

THIS GAME IS TOO AWESOME

Beaver!

Wonder what you get if you write pussy :0P

wow, it must have taken a long time just to make the game recognize all those thousands of nouns.