Kids programming language becomes game studio express?

Published 14 August 6 10:34 AM | Ramon Smits
I just read an article about a new product at Ars-Technica called Game Studio Express that Microsoft is planning to launch.

Microsoft has a product called KPL (Kids Programming Language) to easily create nice graphical applications in minutes. It lacks features in the IDE when you want to get deeper into certain stuff but it is a nice environment to learn basic programming skills. KPL is based on .net 1.1 and I think that KPL has now evolved in a more professional/mature product. I will read the Microsoft Express page more often now because there isn't any information about Game Studio Express at this moment.

Comments

# Olaf Conijn said on August 14, 2006 2:11 AM:

"Kips programming language becomes game studio express?" -- who is Kip?

# Dennis van der Stelt said on August 14, 2006 7:38 AM:

lol

# Rob Tillie said on August 14, 2006 10:40 PM:

This was announced yesterday:

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/aug06/08-13XNAGameStudioPR.mspx

I don't think it has anything todo with KPL, it's just VS with a couple of addons, so I guess we can write our new block buster xbox 360 game (which runs fine too on vista) in C# :)

# Dennis van der Stelt said on August 15, 2006 1:33 AM:

Read more about XNA in Dutch over here : http://webmail.class-a.nl/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.xbox.com/nl-NL/community/news/gdc2006.htm

XNA is like DirectX but as far as I know, not for rendering stuff, but for life-like behavior. Think of cars smashing into eachother and XNA would calculate the force (no, not THE force ;) this results in, how hard the cars would collide, bounce back, damage they'd get, etc. More than a year ago there were one or more videos on XNA. It looked pretty cool back then, but by now every self respecting game has stuff like this. It'll probably be easier in the future to incorporate it with XNA.

But that's how I understood XNA a long time ago. Don't know what it currently all stands for.

# Dennis van der Stelt said on August 15, 2006 2:50 AM:

Cool, check out the XNA weblog! :)

http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/