"Boku is a new visual programming language"

I think it's aim is to get people interested in games programming at an early age.

LBP 160k on first week sales USA.. LOOL

O.o I don't get this. It's basically a poor copy of LBP's create mode?

Well, if 1st weeks sales are anything to go by, they should just drop this idea now. With LBP flopping sales wise, titles like this are definitely not system sellers.

They should stick to titles like Fable 2, which is out selling LBP over 5 to 1 right now.

Some idiot on a blog says its Microsoft's answer to LBP and you jump on it as if it was a MS press statement.
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"Boku is a new visual programming language made specifically for creating games. It is designed to be accessible for children and enjoyable for anyone. The programming environment runs on the XBox, allowing rapid design iteration using only a game controller for input."

Who says anything about sales? so why would the Xbox hamper it? Qualify it please. No?
Doesn't anyone actual read these days or is it just fanboy stupidity?

Pathetic

darkequitus: PSN/XBL

Link to one site, take your headline from another?

Either way, looks extremely user friendly and a great place to start if you have an interest in making games. Nothing like LBP though.

interesting.. if u ask me.. but dont think its anything like LBP..

Wow that looks retarted, LBP was awesome, but not worth 60$ IMO.

another copy for MS. And everytime they say "our thing is going to be better", well... they failed.

have to do with little big planet?

not my cup of tea

http://www.ditii.com/2008/1...

This can obviously perform at a higher level than showed here as well based on the link - watch towards the end

Thats like me saying "Microsoft copied the PS2 by putting a DVD drive in their system".

Grow up.

Here's a youtube video that shows more of what can be made with this software:

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

In another video, the presenter talks about it as a tool for teaching children at an early age about programming constructs:

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Boo-ku?

O.K. In all honesty not trying to flame or sound fanboish, but honestly All I could think was, "Wait till you see the amazing creations that users will be playing because of this amazing work from Microsoft.... just like XNA's jaw dropping, um, nevermind...."

lol! good luck with that

nothing like changing the title to the real one after dragging LBP into it.

Boku and LittleBigPlanet have very little in common. One of them is a game centered around user generated content and another a visual programming environment for kids. Resemblances are quite superficial.

By the way, Boku has been in development for at least a couple of years so it can't be Microsoft's response to LittleBigPlanet on any level. It was first publicly shown in March of 2007 (at least as far as I know, maybe even earlier), the very same month that Sony introduced us to LittleBigPlanet.

...They're not related?

Interesting. Looks a bit similar to Game Maker as well, but with a more child-oriented approach.

I don't think this will benefit kids at all or anyone for that matter (unless they don't plan on learning programming in the future). In fact, this kind of garbage makes for bad programming in the future. Garbage in garbage out. I think doing so little to manipulate the engine will only cause impatience if these people would like to dabble with "real" programming. My college switched to Alice my last year and it was really fun to help out the freshmen with projects because they were still lost as ever and didn't have a clue about parameters or logic in general. Logic is quite important in programming.

Logic test: (valid or invalid)
If the sky is black, then smurfs with pink mittens exist. The sky is black. Hence smurfs with pink mittens exist.

valid.