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 ...

If the Imagine Cup is the World Series of software design, the Kodu challenge is like little league. Broken up into two age groups, students can use Microsoft's free Kodu platform to learn programming ...

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 ...

User-generated content is a fickle theme to build a game around. Daring concepts brought to life such as LittelBigPlanet received widespread praise but failed meet sales expectations. New into the ...

Programming can be overwhelming for all but the most determined kids. I learned BASIC at an early age in attempt to create my own games. My cousin, after learning that Wolfenstein 3D was written in ...

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 ...

“Our society thinks of computer programming as lucrative, therefore it must be hard and dull,” says the leader of the Kodu project, Matt MacLaurin. He says software development should be like a fourth ...

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 ...