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Nice Post on Wired's Geekdad

mattmac — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT

"Once you’ve selected your sprite, you are tasked with programming how it interacts with the game. For example, you can program it to react to “bumps” (running into another sprite or a world object). Or you can make it react to different buttons used on the controller. In the 2nd tutorial, you have to change the A button action from shooting a missile to jumping in order to make it across the river. Remember all of this is accomplished via the XBox controller using a visual action tree."

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/07/build-your-own-game-with-kodu/

Also includes a shout-out to our favorite forum:

http://kodu.moco.net/

Kodu Walkthrough on Joystiq

mattmac — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Richard Mitchell over at Joystiq has done a very nice walkthrough video of creating in Kodu. His level design is cool - I want that level! Reminds me of Scramble, which I've been meaning to recreate for like a year now.

Richard, if you're reading this, you can program the rock too - you don't have to make the enemies damage themselve. There is an additional performance cost for every character that has a sensor (vision is most expensive, bump and hearing are cheaper,) but if you only have a few rocks at a time it shouldn't be a problem.

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/07/02/video-tour-kodu-microsofts-diy-game-builder/