Microsoft has released Kodu, a game developed by Microsoft Research that lets users create their own worlds while teaching them the basics of game development, as a public beta for the PC. To get ...

I'm pleased to announce a new series here at GeekMom called Bit by Bit! As a programmer, I've approached the subject of programming on GeekMom a few times. When I do, I often get feedback from parents ...

If you’re acquainted with a kid between the ages of nine and eighteen, encourage them to start designing games and enter Microsoft’s Imagine Cup Kodu Challenge. Kodu is software that enables kids to ...

How do you get young kids to code? By giving them the tools to create a game where they control a Curiosity-like rover on the surface of Mars, according to Microsoft. Kodu is a programming game, with ...

Let's face it, we've all thought of what it would be like to be a game designer. I've certainly tried every game creation program out there, and learned the hard way that one needs to learn to write ...

The first computer program I ever wrote, in the second grade, was composed in pencil and ran on the platform known as my friend Nicholas. We were about to start learning Logo, the program that teaches ...

Microsoft has confirmed that its extremely accessible "visual programming language," once known as Boku, is coming to Xbox 360 later this spring under the name "Kodu." The game has drawn numerous ...

During last night's CES 09 keynote, Microsoft’s president of the Entertainment and Devices Division, Robbie Bach, unveiled a new Community game entitled Kodu. The official blurb reads: "Kodu" is a ...

Kodu lets you create games through a simple visual programming language. Kodu can be used to teach creativity, problem solving, storytelling, as well as programming. Anyone can use Kodu to make a game ...

If there's one thing that Indie Games have delivered on in their brief public existence, it is allowing players more accesibility to a myriad of games which push the envelope on creativity, thinking ...