Comments on: Kodu Kabooom

By: Kristian Still

Kristian Still — Mon, 09 May 2011 18:55:22 +0000

I am pleased you are growing in confidence. Where will it take you? As for your controller, why not.

By: J Irvine

J Irvine — Sun, 08 May 2011 18:59:40 +0000

In week 2 of the Kodu program we first looked back on what we did in week 1 and talked about how we could expand or improve on that some of the digital leader weren’t there in weer 1 so we had to help them out a bit and that is one good thing about the way we’re teached Kodu at our school because the students can take the lead and not the teacher. The students can control at what pace they want to go at and not be affaid of asking for help however this will not work for everyone because some people need a more structural approach to things. I believe that the game-play is as just as important as the learning part of Kodu because then the students get fun out of it aswell as the learning point of view and if a student isn’t interested or think they can’t get anything out of it than they will refuse to comply and if the students aren’t interested than this program will not work because it’s all about the students taking the lead. The reason why I think I took Kodu like a duck to water is because I have a interest in gaming aswell as that I have many programing skills and they both came into play a lot. Kodu isn’t just focused on 1 thing like a normal game because you have to make and program the game first which is a challenge on itself so the main goal of the game is to make the game if you know what I mean however i’m more of a gamer than a programer so was more focus on the game play but that is my view on it. Please reply and I will be happy to comment back

By: B Spencer

B Spencer — Sat, 07 May 2011 09:44:56 +0000

Hi, I have been working along side J Irvine in making a Kodu game in a Digital Leader meeting which has been very interesting as neither me or J Irvine had ever used Kodu before. Nethertheless after working with Kodu for two weeks we have achieved skills we did not have before and now have confidence to keep making games.

I am looking forward to the upcoming coming weeks and learning more skills and becoming more knowledgeable about Kodu.

I have throughly enjoyed the two weeks and will be commenting throughout the course.

Kristain, would it be a good idea for me to bring in my controller next wednesday.

By: Kristian Still

Kristian Still — Thu, 05 May 2011 19:02:13 +0000

It is far to say that you took to it like a duck to water. The speed at which you plumbed in your commands on the XBox controller was quiet impressive. I still think the curriculum Kodu needs your input.

I was unable to make it yesterday, how did Week 2 extend Week 1? Is there a chance you could write an actual post for this blog?

How has you focus changed? Are you map focused? Game-play focused? How is your interests and skills evolving.

By: J Irvine

J Irvine — Thu, 05 May 2011 16:05:59 +0000

Hi I’m one of the Digital Leaders at Hamble College that Kristian Still has been teaching how to use kodu and I have taken a great intrest in it because it’s very easy to program the charaters and create the world itself. Week 1 of the 6 week course was all about getting to use to the programing and gaming of Kodu. we did that by playing around with Kodu until we got use to it then Kristian gave us a goal to achieve which was to create a world with a moving charater that you can control and a charater that shoots missiles at you when in reach, also place apples that your charater can eat to win points. Kristian then came over to my computer to see what I’d had done and we started looking at the gaming side of it by letting my character shoot missiles, giving it more health and making it quicker. When I got back from school I downloaded Kodu on to my home computer and got my older brother invovled in helping to create a game with 2 players that try to shoot at each other and you win points by killing the others players character, the winner who gets 5 points. Kodu can be useful in a ICT classroom because it’s a fun way to learn programing and it’s easy to pick up on. I will keeping writing about my journey of Kudo every week.

By: Kristian Still

Kristian Still — Wed, 04 May 2011 14:26:37 +0000

Thank you, Nicki, you were the inspiration for using Kodu in the first place and I always recommend / reference your talents with Kodu. I am really curious to find out where they go next.