Kodu game lab, a few lessons learned

Authors:
Stephen Coy
Affiliations:
FUSE Labs in Microsoft Research
Venue:
XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students - Creativity + Computer Science
Year:
2013

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Abstract

Kodu Game Lab is a complete, 3-D game development environment designed to be accessible to children as young as 9 years old. The core of Kodu is a custom visual programming language, which blends ease of use with expressibility.