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Personally, as a kid I don't think I would've been interested in this, but maybe others will.
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Even Owen was clear that it was just about content sharing. Geez, you people need to learn to digest information better.
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They've been working on this prior to this second video. Don't forget, this is from Microsoft Research and not the Xbox Team.
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Everyone on here, please understand that this IS NOT, IN ANY WAY, a rip off of LittleBigPlanet. It is an EDUCATIONAL TOOL to teach kids logic and programming skills.
Stop being idiots people, we're smarter than this. One commenter made a great point, if we're going to call this a rip-off of LBP, then we might as well start calling C++, Jave, Basic, Game Maker, Pascal, Unreal Editor, UnrealScript, etc. all LBP rip-offs. They all let you make games, so why not, right?
LBP did not do anything new. It was the first game to do this kind of thing on a console, but hundreds of programs exist on the PC that let you do the same thing with infinitely better results.
When I was a kid, I would have loved something like Boku. It looks like it allows kids an easy way to MAKE THEIR OWN GAME and not just extend a pre-existing one. Boku can actually teach kids skills that could be useful later on in life. You can't get a job with LittleBigPlanet skills, but you can if you have good Logic and Programming skills.
The fanboys, however, will still jump on this and call it a rip-off. Owen, you shouldn't have even brought up the connection, because even you know that there isn't one.
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I think this post was a much better response then the one you made on the first discussion. Very well done.
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Can't you let the PS3 have SOMETHING?
I know it isn't an exacty copy, but still, it's almost like that Baja cover controversy a couple days ago. It isn't the exact same, but it's a little too similar to be coincidence. (Who was the commenter that said that?)
It just makes me mad how they just can't get off sony's back.
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I'm an early level programmer, and there is a wholly overwhelming feeling of "Fiero" I think it was, the feeling of overcoming adversity, whenever I compile a program that actually does what I want it to. Unfortunately, programming is kind of unapproachable because of how unforgiving it is, in that you need to know all of the syntax and stuff. But this looks incredibly easy, and might actually encourage people to get into programming. Gah, I love it, I wish I could have gotten this as a kid, might have actually picked up a Visual C++ book before, ya know, I was 16.
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This is not LBP, and it's not an attempt to compete with it. This is much more similar to Microsoft's recent push with XNA and trying to make game programming accessible to the masses.
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Similarities use to be touchstones that gamers would use to navigate the see of interest in ever growing universe of games but now it seems that these mental paths that we and many before use have been laying down for over three decades now have been hijacked by fanboys who want to kill anything that attempts to follow it and put down its own piece at the end.
This kind of insular view is not healthy and isn't needed.