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New microsoft game programming language - Boku!

Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 11:31 pm
by DoubleDutch
Looks strange, but interesting...

http://research.microsoft.com/projects/boku/

Re: New microsoft game programming language - Boku!

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 12:10 am
by Tipperton
DoubleDutch wrote:Looks strange, but interesting...
It does, but only if you have an XBox....

Re: New microsoft game programming language - Boku!

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 12:26 am
by PB
An Xbox 360, that is. ;)

Re: New microsoft game programming language - Boku!

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 1:03 am
by traumatic
research.microsoft.com wrote:Yes we have a turtle.
:lol:

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 4:43 am
by Rook Zimbabwe

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 1:28 pm
by thefool

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 5:48 pm
by Rook Zimbabwe
I suppose I did, but I consider it a shell and I suspect that "BoKu" is Secret Microsoft code for "Useless Tool"

I don't see where you can compile the programs or make money off of them! Thats what I want to see... Not some silly toy that will allegedly let the XBox programming staff "get inspired" by what users attempt to create!

Sorry... I must be in a very negative mood today! Little arguments with the wife about money and how I cannot print it myself... so we just have to earn it!

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 8:28 pm
by thefool
Rook Zimbabwe wrote: Sorry... I must be in a very negative mood today! Little arguments with the wife about money and how I cannot print it myself... so we just have to earn it!
ouch :/

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 8:51 pm
by nhokem
curiously under "Key Features" it says (underline added):
* Runs on XBox 360 and PC
sorry to hijack the thread but under "Related Products" (on the right of the page) they give a "shout-out" to a similar project for Win/Mac @ Scratch project at MIT which looks like a great teaching tool for learning the concepts of programming. played around with it a little and i sure wish this kinda stuff was around when i was a kid (it's almost "Lego"-like :) )...

(also there's a link to a different XBox360 prog lang called XNA...haven't read up on it since i don't really own an XB360)

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 9:12 pm
by Rook Zimbabwe
XNA?

http://www.xna.com/

I looked at that too...

I always thought the XBox ran a version of Windows... Am I being wrong here?

:D

Sorry f00l, it wasn't you! I promise! :D

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 11:49 pm
by thefool
Rook Zimbabwe wrote: Sorry f00l, it wasn't you! I promise! :D
Just put the blame on me, i can cope it 8)

Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 1:07 am
by nhokem
Rook Zimbabwe wrote:XNA?
I always thought the XBox ran a version of Windows... Am I being wrong here?
I think you're right, but I'm not 100% sure. I remember reading somewhere about XBox running some form of windows...which in turn made it easier to port PC games to it, but I just can't remember where/when I read that (likely back when the original XBox came out).

XNA appears to compile code for XBox, Windows, and even Zune, but, again, I haven't really looked at it so I'm not sure exactly what it does/how it does it...