Microsoft’s Kodu game creation tool goes live today [Update]

Updated.

I might have a fiddle around with it. But I’m not expecting to actually buy it.

Just had a look. Couldn’t make it do anything. Turned it off.

Denmark isn’t cool enough to get community games for some reason.

You’re not missing much.

Still, it’d be nice to find out for myself. I can think of no reason why Comm. Games are region specific.

Localisation testing?

They’re all in English anyway. No moonspeak allowed, it would appear.

Every 360 game released in Denmark is in English apart from kids games, but they just have localisation languages that change after the region you’ve got your 360 set in.

Ok, the manuals are in Danish but I can’t see why a simple warning that Comm Games are English language only should stand in the way of them being released.

I suppose if you want to play Community Games then, you’ll simply have to move to an English speaking country.

See!

Easy when you think about it.

*puts house up for sale*

Hehe!

You can localise community games, it’s just a lot of effort that’s usually beyond most of the creators.

Microsoft should be able to manage it in time though.

I just bought it on a whim – couldn’t be arsed to try the demo. It’s certainly interesting and you can do a lot with it. Bit telling that the majority of the bundled examples I tried were a bit crap to play though.

It’s probably got the same ‘fun to create stuff’ aspect that LBP has though – a point missed by many. The end result doesn’t have to be fun for anyone else if the journey of creating it was enjoyable.