Kodu is much more than making games. Using Kodu Game Lab, you’ll become better looking, discover that suddenly you’re much more popular, and find you’re really getting in touch with who you are as a person … well … perhaps you won’t gain ALL those additional benefits.
Kodu will help you in some surprising ways however, here are just a few.
- It will help with basic reading concepts. In the same way that having the ability to read music enhances literacy skills, using Kodu also gives you a deeper understanding of language because you are immersing yourself in a different pictographic language, with its own syntax and grammar logic.
- It will enhance your creative problem solving skills. Make no mistake about it, Kodu Game Lab will present you with some weird and wonderful challenges, and push you to approaching problems in new and interesting ways.
- You’re likely to collaborate with people from all walks of life. A very broad range of age groups use Kodu, and in many ways, the growing Kodu community is amongst the most diverse in the gaming industry. From six and onward, people are using Kodu to develop games.
- Kodu offers teachers and parents the opportunity to better understand what children find engaging about gaming. This understanding can then be used to find new ways of teaching and learning with gaming by leveraging this interest.
- It can help you understand how to better critique games. By enabling you to construct a game, Kodu gives you the skills to deconstruct other forms of gaming too. What works, what doesn’t and why, these questions are much more easily answered when you’ve had the opportunity to build your own.
- Video games are one of the most absorbing forms of entertainment we participate in. Studies show we are less easily distracted when playing (and building) games than with a variety other forms of entertainment like TV or a good novel. Why is this important? The critical thinking, problem solving skills you’re building with Kodu are that much better enhanced BECAUSE you are playing a video game!
