NayusDante
07-01-2009, 11:31 AM
Has anyone tried this one yet? It's on the Community Games tab, $5.
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/kodu/
Misto
07-01-2009, 01:10 PM
Sounds cool, reminds me of the RPG Maker games.
I might try it out but I'd rather just stick to actual programming languages.
NayusDante
07-01-2009, 08:42 PM
Well, I bought it and played with it for about an hour.
It seems very well suited to making clones of 8-bit games, and I think that the ceiling of complexity would be something like Zelda, albeit without saves and on one map. You can do pixel art with the terrain editor, given that there's 121 textures and a tile-based terrain format.
Content leaves a bit to be desired. There's a few characters, but they control kinda funny. Supposedly, one has completely programmable controls, but the others are stuck with pre-written movement that you just map to buttons. You can change their colors, HP, bounciness, etc, so there's a decent bit of customizability.
Did anyone ever use Klick N Play, The Games Factory, Multimedia Fusion, Game Maker, etc? It's like those, but 3D, without external content support, and not QUITE as sophisticated when it comes to logic. The programming portion is lifted out of the Lego Mindstorms software, but you have "pages" that perform like different game loops. Basically, it's a programming language with no syntax. When X, do Y+Z+Q+H.