''Scribblenauts Remix'' is an
emergent action
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puzzle title developed by
5th Cell
5th Cell is an independently owned video game developer founded in 2003 as 5th Cell Media, LLC. led by Jeremiah Slaczka and Marius Falhbusch. The company is most well known for creating the '' Drawn to Life'' and ''Scribblenauts'' series.
Overvie ...
and
Iron Galaxy Studios
Iron Galaxy Studios, LLC is an American video game developer studio founded on August 14, 2008, and based in Chicago, Illinois, with a second studio in Orlando, Florida that was opened in 2012 and a third studio in Austin, Texas. Iron Galaxy do ...
and published by
Warner Bros. Interactive
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on October 12, 2011. The game provides forty levels from both ''
Scribblenauts
''Scribblenauts'' is a series of action puzzle video games primarily developed by 5th Cell. The series is owned and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The first game in the series was titled '' Scribblenauts'' and was first rel ...
'' and its sequel, ''
Super Scribblenauts
''Super Scribblenauts'' is an emergent action puzzle game developed by 5th Cell and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment for the Nintendo DS handheld game console. The game was released on October 12, 2010. It is the sequel to th ...
'' along with ten new levels for iOS and Android. The mechanics of the game are based on ''Super Scribblenauts'', allowing for the use of adjectives in addition to nouns. The game uses built-in features of iOS, such as the touch keyboard, and was released simultaneously with iOS version 5, incorporating new features such as
cloud storage
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via
iCloud
iCloud is a Personal cloud, cloud service from Apple Inc. launched on October 12, 2011 as a successor to MobileMe. , the service had an estimated 850 million users, up from 782 million users in 2016.
iCloud enables users to sync their data to t ...
to play the game across multiple devices. The game also features
Game Center
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integration.
As a result of a price drop to approximately one
dollar
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, ''Scribblenauts Remix'' took the top sales spot for iOS games during the week of November 14, 2011, knocking long-term favorite ''
Angry Birds
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'' from this spot. By February 2012, it had gained more than one million downloads,
and in honor of that it was updated with a Valentine's playground.
Reception
References
5th Cell games
2011 video games
Android (operating system) games
IOS games
Puzzle video games
Remix
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Video games developed in the United States
Warner Bros. video games
Iron Galaxy games
Single-player video games
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