Boku: hailed as “Microsoft’s answer to LittleBigPlanet”

The Wii has Miis, so Microsoft got Avatars. Now the PlayStation 3 has LittleBigPlanet so Microsoft got… Boku? They’re not calling it a game though, just so it’s not that obvious; it’s a “visual programming language.” Vids of LittleBokuPlanet Boku after the link.

The Wii has Miis, so Microsoft got Avatars. Now the PlayStation 3 has LittleBigPlanet so Microsoft got… Boku? They’re not calling it a game though, just so it’s not that obvious; it’s a “visual programming language.”

Far from being a sackboy, Boku is a little robot head with cartoony eyes, which kinda reminds me of EVE in Wall-E. Boku can then be programmed with a graphical language to do any number of things. However cute Boku is though, the selling point is the graphical programming language, which allows you to create your own games.

LittleBokuPlanet Boku is designed to be a lightweight programming language for kids. Here are some videos of the game, err, “visual programming language”:

Via Microsoft