1. Kodu Game Design
DIA Week Without walls

2. What is Kodu
The core of the Kodu project is the programming user interface. The language is simple and entirely icon-based. Programs are composed of pages, which are broken down into rules, which are further divided into conditions and actions. The Kodu language is designed specifically for game development and provides specialized primitives (the nouns, adjectives, and verbs of the language) derived from gaming scenarios. Programs are expressed in physical terms, using concepts like vision, hearing, and time to control character behavior. Kodu can express advanced game design concepts in a simple, direct, and intuitive manner.
Kodu was developed by a team of research programmers at Microsoft who are passionate about kids having fun and being challenged as they learn how to program.

3. Day 1 – Introduction & Landscaping
Navigating,
Intro to Programming Concepts,
Adding Objects
Creating a Landscape

4. Day 2 – Control & cloning Using Controller to Move Characters
Create Paths
Set Behaviors
Making clones and Creatable

5. Day 3 – Unique stories
Starting Unique Stories and Characters

6. ACTIVITY DETAILS
The Kodu Game design activity will take place in room SS 205 and SS 207 at Dubai International Academy.
The activity is run by DD & CS teachers depends on the number of the students enrolled.
We do not recommend more than 15 students in each set