kodu game lab

Kodu Game Lab

Ed Donahue

Technical Evangelist, Microsoft

ed.donahue@micrososft.com

@creepyed | creepyed.com

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Developer Evangelist

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Kodu Game Lab

Create games with a simple visual programming language

Entirely icon-based

Designed for game development

Programs are expressed in physical terms like seeing, hearing and timers

Advanced game design concepts are expressed in a simple, direct and intuitive manner

More than Programming

Improve problem-solving skills

Producers of media rather than just consumers

Rich tool for narrative creation and storytelling

Implicitly practice math through branching and scoring

Develop more positive attitudes towards computer programming

Collaboratively work to create innovative solutions

How it Works

Worlds Create your own or build on an

existing world

Programs

Pages

Rules

Conditions and actions

Resources

Get Kodu: http://aka.ms/kodu

Tutorial videos

Kodu classroom kit for educators Getting Started with Kodu (keyboard and

controller)

Single session introduction

Kodu Curriculum (keyboard and controller)

Kodu Math Module

Community at KoduGameLab.com, on Twitter, @koduteam and Facebook

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