KODU Game Lab | KODU Game Lab

The KODU game laboratory is a 3D game development environment, which aims to teach children's basic programming principles.KODU allows creators to build world terrain, fill in characters and props, and then use customized visual programming language to program their behavior and game rules.

KODU originated from a project of the Microsoft Research Institute.The original target platform was Xbox 360, using C#, XNA, and published through the independent game channel.Choose to publish on Xbox to a large extent affecting the early UI development, because everything needs to be completed using the game controller.Since transplanted to PC, support for keyboards, mosics and touch has been added.

KODU's goal has always been as convenient as possible.Under the guidance of this goal, we tend to design new functions, making them easy to understand, not complex and complete.

The core of KODU is based on Tile's programming language.Compared with traditional programming, this language is high -level, because many things can be completed in few lines of "KODE".KODE is continuously evaluated so that it can respond to any changes in the world state immediately.For example, the following example shows how to write a character to find and eat all apples in the game world.The first line said that if the character see an apple, it should move it.If there are more than one apple in the world, it will automatically choose the nearest one.The second line said that when the character hit Apple, it should eat apples.The raised tiles are the way KODU judges when the two characters approach each other.Once the apple is eaten, it no longer exists in this world, so this role will find the next one, so that there is no Apple left.