I SPY Spooky Mansion Wii Game
INSIDE TRACK: I SPY SPOOKY MANSION
You know when a new gadget comes out and there's tons of people who wait on line to get their hands on it? Well, I admit I was one of those people when the Wii first came out. I woke up at 2am to camp outside the store until it opened to be one of the first (I was the fifth, in case you're wondering) to get my hands on a Wii. So it's pretty cool to have a job creating video games every day!
I SPY Spooky Mansion is Scholastic's latest Wii game. It is inspired by the best-selling book, I SPY Spooky Night by Jean Marzollo and Walter Wick—who basically started the hidden object craze in the early 90s before "hidden object" even became a game genre. Wii is my absolute favorite platform for I SPY games because we can create a virtual 3D experience versus a flat, 2D experience. Since the setting of I SPY Spooky Mansion is a haunted house, we could make the entire house 3D and have players explore it, making it seem as if you are actually walking through each room in the house.
Instead of just having players search for hidden objects, we added mini-games to every riddle. For example, if a riddle says to find "two spinning plates," you'd have to find those plates and then spin them using the Wii Remote to solve that piece of the riddle.
It was important to pick up elements from the I SPY Spooky Night book, like the trickster skeleton that dares you to enter the haunted house and beckons you from room to room to solve the riddles. That skeleton (We call him "Skelly.") needed to be in the game because he provides what's called the "game objective." Skelly dares you to enter his spooky mansion only to trap you inside. This sets you up to escape the spooky mansion by finding and solving the riddles in the house and playing his clever games. Skelly is quite mischievous and the riddles can be challenging, so you can enlist three of your friends to play along with you to solve the riddles and scavenger hunts. See for yourself in the trailer.
Creating the packaging art is another exciting part about launching a video game. The creative part of me loves this kind of stuff. This cover originally started out as a pencil sketch and evolved to what you see now. Since I SPY is all about finding hidden objects, we wanted a cover where you can actually play I SPY. If you look below, you'll find a bounty of hidden objects. How many can you find? Try writing your own I SPY riddle below in the Comments.
—Amabel, Scholastic Media Staffer
I don't have a wii, but this game makes me want one!
Comment #1 | Posted by: firestar28 on October 18, 2010 at 06:26 PM
this is sweet i have a Wii and if i had that it would call for a.....HALLAWEEN BASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Comment #2 | Posted by: camoshark896 on October 20, 2010 at 04:12 PM
I love the Wii....... its so much fun!!!!!!!!
Comment #3 | Posted by: sydney on October 21, 2010 at 05:48 PM
the wii is so much fun
Comment #4 | Posted by: sydney on October 21, 2010 at 05:49 PM
I WANT IT...
Comment #5 | Posted by: morgan808 on October 21, 2010 at 05:49 PM
I love to play the Wii. I would like to have this game!
Comment #6 | Posted by: sydney on October 21, 2010 at 05:49 PM
I hate I Spy because it's sort of dumb. But this game sounds pretty awesome.
Comment #7 | Posted by: Nannerlmozart on November 04, 2010 at 10:39 PM
I love I spy i have a few I SPY PC games but Therepacked away.I have a wii
Comment #8 | Posted by: jack l on November 08, 2010 at 10:06 PM
Does anyone know the trick to keeping 3 plates spinning?
Comment #9 | Posted by: Tammy on November 16, 2010 at 03:04 PM
i love all the i spy books
Comment #10 | Posted by: lou-lou on November 19, 2010 at 06:22 PM
This game seems a little spooky to me but I won't mind if I had it.
Comment #11 | Posted by: deliciouspie on November 20, 2010 at 01:55 PM
scary
Comment #12 | Posted by: 00 on November 21, 2010 at 12:54 PM
Find scissors, dominoes, and a crow,
Prepare for a scare, though.
Skelly
P.S. Enter, if you dare.
Comment #13 | Posted by: ZeusDaughter on November 21, 2010 at 07:29 PM
that video was so cool. If i had a wii i would buy that game. It was sooooooooo cool:):):):):):)!! this game is literly for me:)
Comment #14 | Posted by: Shelia on November 22, 2010 at 10:25 AM
This game is so awsome!!
[i have a wii.]
Comment #15 | Posted by: lost242 on November 22, 2010 at 04:58 PM
Where is the flower in the bathroom?
Comment #16 | Posted by: Dane on November 24, 2010 at 06:56 PM
I...WANT...IT...
Comment #17 | Posted by: Anna on November 24, 2010 at 07:08 PM
THAT WAS REALLY REALLY REALLY COOL
Comment #18 | Posted by: CHRISTIAN on November 25, 2010 at 07:13 PM
THAT WAS REALLY REALLY REALLY COOL
Comment #19 | Posted by: CHRISTIAN on November 25, 2010 at 07:15 PM
How do you get out? Is the "secret psassegeway" in the bathroom?????????
Comment #20 | Posted by: mike0 on November 27, 2010 at 11:18 AM
I think this is kinda dumb.
Comment #21 | Posted by: Allie on November 27, 2010 at 11:20 AM
Trapped ya' all!
Comment #22 | Posted by: S on November 27, 2010 at 11:22 AM
i have a wii but this game looks sooooooo dumb!
Comment #23 | Posted by: justinbiebera101 on November 27, 2010 at 07:54 PM
I think justinbieebera101 is right. This is really weird
Comment #24 | Posted by: nmnj on November 28, 2010 at 11:04 AM
i didn't like the video
Comment #25 | Posted by: china on November 29, 2010 at 10:33 AM