Kodu Coming Soon?

Scribbled on June 10th, 2009 by Jason Andrews
Filed in Casual Gaming, Live for Windows, Microsoft Xbox 360, PC, Release Date(s), Rumor Mill

If the idea of creating your own basic video game excites you, but you just don’t have the advanced programming know-how to make your vision a reality – a new solution from Microsoft known as Kodu could inspire you to create a video game masterpiece.

Kodu is a new visual programming language made specifically for creating games using an icon based interface. It has been designed to be accessible for children and also enjoyable for absolutely anyone. The programming environment runs on the Xbox 360 console allowing rapid design creations using only a game controller without the need for any programming knowledge because Kodu can express advanced game design concepts in a simple, direct, and intuitive manner.

Kodu provides an end-to-end creative environment for designing, building, and playing one’s own new games, including:

High-level language incorporates real-world primitives: collision, color, vision
Uses Xbox 360 Game Controller for input — no keyboard required
Runs on Xbox 360 and PC
Interactive terrain editor
Bridge and path builder
Terrain editor – create worlds of arbitrary shape and size
20 different characters with different abilities

The exact release date is yet to be confirmed although a developer currently working on the software gave away some details via his dev-blog.

“I’m doing final content passes as we get ready for release, which is the end of June. (Exact day TBD)”

Unfortunately, no pricing details were confirmed either, but in the meantime why not get your thinking caps on regarding what sort of gaming environment you would like to create for yourself since all we have to do here is click a few buttons?

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