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I think it’s a great market to tackle- as both a game/level designer tool and also an educational intro to scripting/coding. IMO it’s very reminiscent of Micro
by dyarosla 7y ago
I think it’s a great market to tackle- as both a game/level designer tool and also an educational intro to scripting/coding.
IMO it’s very reminiscent of Microsoft’s Kodu and to a lesser extent Media Molecule’s Little Big Planet and Dreams games.
I wish the team the best of luck! Hopefully it keeps chugging along for some time; I’m wary because particularly these kinds of not quite game engine and not quite game projects have a bad history of abandonment within 3-5 years (I’ve researched this particular space for a while).
- darzu 7y ago> Hopefully it keeps chugging along for some time That's my biggest question, especially with Google. Meanwhile, Kodu is still getting updates 10 years later! [0] (Disclosure: I was an intern on Kodu years back, so I'm probably biased ;) ) [0] https://www.kodugamelab.com/archive/new-kodu-release-15470/ https://www.kodugamelab.com/archive/new-kodu-release-15470/
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoI thought Kodu was pretty much frozen at this point, and I think Project Spark failed. Is it someone at MS working on the code?
- darzu 7y agoThere's still a dev fixing bugs and improving perf full-time, but it's not getting drastic changes. More people are using Kodu now than ever before.
- dyarosla 7y agoYes but they (Microsoft) also shut down Project Spark, the ‘spiritual successor’ to Kodu.
- darzu 7y agotouché. What a missed opportunity Project Spark was. I feel like a book could be written about that.