Kodu Game Lab: Full Game Video Tutorial with Narration! – Generic Wars

August 19th, 2009 by Tommy Gun
You can download this tutorial as a single divx file from the Downloads page. See my previous Kodu Review if you're unfamiliar with it.

Learn how to create an entire game from scratch with Kodu! This 4-part video will teach you how to make a Geometry Wars style twin-stick shooter. Kodu is only $5 on the indie games channel on Xbox live.

Part 1

In this part we'll learn about land tools, and setting up basic character controls.

Part 2

In this part we'll add walls, some enemies, AI, a path for a wisp. We learn how to use pages, and mess up the programming with a misplaced "random" tile.

Part 3

In this part we'll program a 60 sec clock on an invisible rock, add music, and bump some enemies.

Part 4

In this final part we'll add some lights, and put the finishing touches on our game. We learn how to add some text with a keyboard, add glyphs, and mention land types.

You can download the "Generic Wars Tutorial" game from the Kodu servers. Also look for my advanced version called "Generic Wars Infinity."

Update: This got linked on the Kodu blog! :)

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12 Responses to “Kodu Game Lab: Full Game Video Tutorial with Narration! – Generic Wars”

  1. JCat (Tronixweb) says:

    Fantastic work — ! This should help beginners tremendously!

  2. Nikolay says:

    can you tell me from which games are the red character and the yellow platapus like characters from the picture on top ?

  3. Tommy Gun says:

    Nikolay wrote:

    can you tell me from which games are the red character and the yellow platapus like characters from the picture on top ?

    You're talking about the CRG header image? Which red character? The two yellow guys with the blue cannon thing are from Guru Logic Champ.

  4. Nikolay says:

    yes,about that one.The red thing character with the blue face ?

  5. Tommy Gun says:

    Oh, that's a drum, from Taiko Drum Master (U.S. title).

  6. Nikolay says:

    Thanks man :) I'll see those games righ away :)

  7. You put together a really cool set of tutorials. I had no idea this came with Xbox 360 live, thanks for the share. Time to try making a video game!

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