Overly Positive

If you guys haven’t seen the rather viral movement to make just about every video game character into a cutesy Scribblenauts version of itself, then you need to roll over to Destructoid to check the link to the NeoGAF forums,  and to artists inspired by them, where someone’s latest creation appears to be Street Fighter characters in Scribblenauts style.

Scribblenauts, a simple little DS game that visually does things to objects based upon what words you use, has been the sleeper hit of E3 and one of those titles that will probably pop up out of nowhere as a novelty that will sell.

Clearly, the cute style is popular with even the blackest of black-hearted gamers, who are apparently putting down their Halo guns and picking up Scribblenauts avatars instead. Anyone who follows me on Twitter probably has seen mine.

If you’re on Scribblenauts’ marketing team, you have to be breathing a sigh of relief for a game getting as much buzz as it is with this giant fanart movement. Whether or not the developers will choose to employ some of the avatars into the game, somehow, remains to be seen, but it’s nice to know your product can sell itself by providing a terribly easy means to recreate its unique style.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go change my avatar to a cute little Optimus Prime…

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