Kodu Game Design DIA Week Without walls

What is Kodu The core of the Kodu project is the programming user interface. The language is simple and entirely icon-based. Programs are composed of pages, which are broken down into rules, which are further divided into conditions and actions. The Kodu language is designed specifically for game development and provides specialized primitives (the nouns, adjectives, and verbs of the language) derived from gaming scenarios. Programs are expressed in physical terms, using concepts like vision, hearing, and time to control character behavior. Kodu can express advanced game design concepts in a simple, direct, and intuitive manner. Kodu was developed by a team of research programmers at Microsoft who are passionate about kids having fun and being challenged as they learn how to program.

Day 1 – Introduction & Landscaping Navigating, Intro to Programming Concepts, Adding Objects Creating a Landscape

Day 2 – Control & cloning Using Controller to Move Characters Create Paths Set Behaviors Making clones and Creatable

Day 3 – Unique stories Starting Unique Stories and Characters

ACTIVITY DETAILS The Kodu Game design activity will take place in room SS 205 and SS 207 at Dubai International Academy. The activity is run by DD & CS teachers depends on the number of the students enrolled. We do not recommend more than 15 students in each set