Boku, Microsoft’s Little Big Planet

Microsoft has recently unveiled its new project, Boku, at a conference in Los Angeles.  Boku is an icon driven to allowing Xbox 360 and PC users the ability to create games with a controller.  This is apparently built to create a bridge between user creation (ala Little Big Planet) and the more complex ideas behind XNA.  It is being reported to be released in 2009 (with Microsoft rolling out the user created XNA stuff with the newer dashboard updates).  The program manager Matthew MacLaurin says that he wanted the kids of today to be able to have as much fun as he did programming on his Commodore PET and away from the passive-TV watching.

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[via Gamasutra Photo: Joystiq]

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