HELLO! Welcome to MacGDA's Booth “Having fun with Kodu!” At this booth you
will be able to ... Now that he has room to walk around, let's make him move.
HELLO! Welcome to MacGDA’s Booth “Having fun with Kodu!” At this booth you will be able to create your own world anyway you imagine it! This program is available for free on the internet so you can even do this when you get home. Download Link: http://bit.ly/MfbSE8 So let’s get to it and create a new world!
First off, let’s see what we have to work with. Click on ‘move camera’ at the bottom of your screen. You can move you camera with your left mouse key and rotate using your right mouse key.
This world looks really empty, we should make a Kodu appear! At the bottom of your screen, you can make a new Kodu by clicking object tools and right clicking your world.
Awesome! There he is, just standing there. But it does look like he can use some more space. Let’s make the world bigger using the ‘Ground Brush’ option. You can even make it smaller using your right click button.
Now that he has room to walk around, let’s make him move around! You can tell him what to do by using the ‘Object tool’ and right clicking on the Kodu then clicking on program.
By clicking on the add button you can tell him what to do when something happens. As you can see, I told him “When I press WASD on the keyboard, do ‘move’”. All commands will follow the When action, do action format. Now lets see how the game looks so far. By clicking the ESC key, you can demo your game right then and there. Try moving around in this mode!
Now that we know how to move our Kodu, lets give him a nice world to walk around in. Using the tools at the bottom, make your own personalized world! Here’s what mine looks like.
Now that we have a world for our Kodu, lets give him things to do and things to look at using the object tool. Let’s first give him an apple to eat.
Now that there’s an apple, let’s tell our Kodu to eat the apple. Just like the last time we told him to do something, we can tell him to eat the apple by right clicking on him and programming him to eat it.
Now a game isn’t a game unless you can win right? Let’s add a score to this. We’ll give our Kodu 10 points for eating an apple and when he gets 100 points (10 apples), you will win the game!
