Update: Boku, or whatever they decide to call it later, will be available March of ‘09.
After suffering this morning through the monotonous Microsoft Research history segment of the keynote, a team member unveiled a new “visual programming language made specifically for creating games”. Being a developer, I fell in love with it almost instantly. You can drool over the additional photos and information by visiting the MSR page.
Programming UI Screenshot – Microsoft Research
Seems cool! Maybe it is not as powerful as .Net, but I think that for a silly facebook-style game is all we need :-D
Hmm … seems like an easy version of visual basic … not as powerful but probably potential … who are they targeting though? 13 year olds?
If you read the post Christian you will see that, yes, 13 year olds are the market.
They’re insulting the 13 year olds…
I’m 13 and I know some C and Java
then there is also the Smallbasic project:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/devlabs/cc950524.aspx
@iamblad: Maybe 10 year olds?
I’m 12 and I program in C++ and Assembler. But I guess some will need Boku, because people generally don’t consider me average. VB never sparked any interest in me. Now writing an OS is cool. Currently developing a shell/terminal for it.
@iambald: I see where you’re coming from. Send a mail here (anonymous inbox) and we can probably work on a more reliable OS than Lunix and Binbows: h4xx0r.666 (at) gmail (dot) com