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Oct 2008
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Even your [insert relative] can program with Microsoft Boku

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

  • http://utvv.blogspot.com wisher

    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

  • Christian

    Hmm … seems like an easy version of visual basic … not as powerful but probably potential … who are they targeting though? 13 year olds?

  • Daniel

    If you read the post Christian you will see that, yes, 13 year olds are the market.

  • iambald

    They’re insulting the 13 year olds…
    I’m 13 and I know some C and Java

  • http://widgetslab.com Avatar

    then there is also the Smallbasic project:
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/devlabs/cc950524.aspx

  • http://justatest.oos.cc Calvin

    @iamblad: Maybe 10 year olds?

  • http://www.7watch.co.cc/ Zachary

    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.

  • http://www.7watch.co.cc/ Zachary

    @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