![]() ![]() Using a keyboard or an XBox controller on a PC, you develop environments, place objects, give those objects rules and goals and then interact with those objects when you run your program. Kodu is nearly a game itself for designing games. Development environment may be too strong of a phrase, however, or at least one with too many connotations. Kodu is a development environment designed for kids, age 9 and up. And Microsoft has taken these concepts a step farther with the Kodu Game Lab. Those tools are getting easier and programming environments like those based on Logo or the Lego Mindstorms software use concepts of programming blocks to make building complex logic easy. Kids and game programming are a natural combination, though, because we grow up playing games and the tools are available to us to create our own. He didn't get farther than creating level maps on graph paper. My cousin, after learning that Wolfenstein 3D was written in C++, picked up the Borland compiler and a book on game programming. I learned BASIC at an early age in attempt to create my own games. Programming can be overwhelming for all but the most determined kids.
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