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Digital hey guys we're at the AMD event still and we're checking out Microsoft's
Project Spark so in as fast as you can what is spark uh it is an open world
digital canvas that allows anyone to
create play or share whatever they can
imagine so it's it's I've heard reference to Little Big Planet although
before you go on a rant about that uh I can totally see how it's very different
it's a lot more in-depth what can you tell me about that well the breath of
what we offer I think is um is is really
our selling point uh and the logic we have this entire visual coding language
that allows uh anyone you don't need to
be an engineer to allow scripting you don't need to be an artist to create
these big worlds we're really breaking down those
disciplines um that are barriers to people and uh that's really a um a big
thing for us one of the coolest things I saw was we had a human and we had a rock
and everything in this game can potentially have a brain uh which we've
we've looked at before and the human had a fairly straightforward brain he'd
follow the camera he do some other stuff now the rock we gave it a bird's brain
so it started flying around randomly I like that you can do stuff like that cuz
you can be super creative what kind of just shoot a couple examples of the
games you could potentially make in this oh I mean we've uh We've shown a couple
already someone made a recreation of Geometry Wars which is a like this
Vector based game blew our minds um somebody even made a a movie a 20-minute
movie uh like we didn't even think it's like you know you think of a game creator they didn't even decide to allow
interaction it's just we're we're telling you the story and that's what it is um and uh some of the other stuff
that we've uh seen people make are just um these uh it's how things interact
with it one guy made a car using just logs with rope and these cubes and he
put them in a certain way and it's just it's amazing that's really cool now if
you were to go on Project Spark and make one of these games and try and
distribute it how does that work in like rating systems and stuff like that uh
well it's super easy to share it so as soon as you're ready to um show off what
you've created you save it you share it and anybody with a Windows 8.1 Xbox 360
or Xbox one will be able to download it and play it and uh the community they'll
get it and they'll be able to rate it up thumbs up thumbs down or whatever they feel and the community just raced up and
you'll be able to see how many downloads versus how many likes cool that's really
fun for project creators because I I know when I was a little kid I used to
play an RPG Maker and like that was fun but I didn't really get to share it with
anyone except for my mom which was cool and she always loved it but she's my mom
so I don't know um it's it's really interesting and we can see in the
background here this guy's made an island kind of thing with a moat and a
cave on it and some dude in there and he's only been working on this for a very short period of time now how could
someone start playing this game well uh the game is available right now on
Windows 8.1 if you go to join project
spark.com you'll be able to sign up for the beta right and uh download it
Through the Windows store perfect now you said it was coming to Xbox One and
3602 so that would just be on the marketplace so uh like I said yeah
Windows 8 beta is out now Xbox one will be coming out within the month or two
and uh we haven't announced uh dates for the other sounds good sounds good no
problem we won't we won't hark on them too much for that thank you for watching our content on Microsoft spark thank you
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