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Kodu Game Lab

Kodu, originally named Boku, is a programming integrated development
Kodu
environment (IDE) by Microsoft's FUSE Labs. It runs on Xbox 360 and
Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Developer(s) Microsoft
Windows 10. It was released on the Xbox Live Marketplace on June 30, Research
2009.[2] A Windows version is available to the general public for download Initial release June 30,
from Microsoft's FUSE web portal.[3] 2009[1]
Operating system Windows
Type Visual
Contents programming

Overview Website kodugamelab

Language design .com (http://kod
See also
ugamelab.com)

References
External links

Overview
Kodu is a visual programming tool which builds on ideas begun with Logo in the 1960s and other current projects such
as AgentSheets, Squeak and Alice. It is designed to be accessible by anyone.

Kodu is available to download as an Xbox 1 Indie Game. There is also a PC version in an open beta which is available
to anyone at their website.

Kodu is different from those other projects in several key ways:

It avoids typing code by having users construct programs using visual elements via a game controller
Rather than a bitmapped or 2D display, programs are executed in a 3D simulation environment, similar to Alice
Kodu Game Lab has also been used as an educational learning tool in selected schools and learning centers. Y8 have
been set a task to do a 1-week project on their consoles. Students have to have over 20 marks to pass the test overall
marks are 25.

Language design
Kodu's programming model is simplified and can be programmed using a gaming controller or a combination of the
keyboard and mouse. It dispenses with most "serious" programming conventions, including symbolic variables,
branching, loops, number and string manipulation, subroutines, polymorphism, and so on.

This simplicity is achieved by situating the programming task in a largely complete simulation environment. The user
programs the behaviors of characters in a 3d world, and programs are expressed in a high-level, sensory paradigm
consisting of a rule-based system or language, based on conditions and actions similarly to AgentSheets.

The typical "hello world" of Kodu is:

see - fruit - move - towards

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The grammar, as it were, of this expression is:

<condition> <action>

Where <condition> is:

<sensor> [<filter> ...]

And <action> is:

<verb> [<modifier> ...]

An illustrative variant of the above program is:

see - red - fruit - move - towards - quickly

Many different types of games can be made in Kodu, such as racing, strategy, RPGs, adventure, platform, puzzle, 1st
person shooters, and others.

See also
Educational programming language
Visual programming language

References
1. App Hub - game details (http://catalog.create.msdn.com/en-US/GameDetails.aspx?catalogEntryId=57f1e907-089
a-4b5e-a4d4-4392385051f7&type=2)
2. Xbox LIVE Marketplace (http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20101023190005/http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Produ
ct/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d8025855024c) at the Library of Congress Web Archives (archived 2010-10-23)
3. What is Kodu | Projects | Fuse Labs (http://kodugamelab.com/)

The Age (Australia): "Get With the Program" (http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/get-with-the-program/20

07/03/31/1174761806975.html)
Information Week: Microsoft Research Provides Sneak Preview Of 'Kodu' Programming Environment For Kids (htt
p://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/03/microsoft_resea.html)
Wired: TechFest Demo: Kodu (https://web.archive.org/web/20080325000958/http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2
007/03/techfest_demo_b.html)
Seed Magazine on Kodu (http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/serious_fun/)
Slate Magazine: Logo on Steroids (http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2009/07/logo_on_steroid
s.html)
Edge Magazine: Do You Kodu? (https://web.archive.org/web/20101229104917/http://www.next-gen.biz/features/d
o-you-kodu)

External links
Kodu - Microsoft Research (http://kodugamelab.com/)
Kodu Fan Forum and Info (http://www.kodux.com/)
Kodu for Kids book by Que Publishing (http://www.informit.com/title/9780789750761)

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