Do You Kodu?
Edge: Microsoft’s Kodu Game Lab has been designed to make many things, the least of which appears to be money. Unless you were paying very close attention on July 1, or have since browsed the midsection of the Community Games channel, you probably didn’t know it was out, and might not even know it exists. If you did, and went one further by actually buying it, you’d have parted with a meagre 400 points (about £3.50, or half the price of the Rocky And Bullwinkle game). This must be one of the most muted firstparty launches in the history of Xbox.
To understand it, you first have to understand its creator, Microsoft Research, and the industry-wide problems it’s trying to solve. We’ll leave that to lead programmer Matt MacLaurin, who does a fine job in just a few moments. First, though, you probably want to know what Kodu actually is, and whether it’s really Redmond’s answer to LittleBigPlanet. Here’s a hint: it’s not.
