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Linus Tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by nc.com your source for

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great technology selection and service along with Corsair memory and Western

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Digital hey guys we're at the AMD event still and we're checking out Microsoft's

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Project Spark so in as fast as you can what is spark uh it is an open world

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digital canvas that allows anyone to

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create play or share whatever they can

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imagine so it's it's I've heard reference to Little Big Planet although

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before you go on a rant about that uh I can totally see how it's very different

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it's a lot more in-depth what can you tell me about that well the breath of

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what we offer I think is um is is really

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our selling point uh and the logic we have this entire visual coding language

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that allows uh anyone you don't need to

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be an engineer to allow scripting you don't need to be an artist to create

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these big worlds we're really breaking down those

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disciplines um that are barriers to people and uh that's really a um a big

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thing for us one of the coolest things I saw was we had a human and we had a rock

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and everything in this game can potentially have a brain uh which we've

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we've looked at before and the human had a fairly straightforward brain he'd

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follow the camera he do some other stuff now the rock we gave it a bird's brain

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so it started flying around randomly I like that you can do stuff like that cuz

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you can be super creative what kind of just shoot a couple examples of the

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games you could potentially make in this oh I mean we've uh We've shown a couple

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already someone made a recreation of Geometry Wars which is a like this

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Vector based game blew our minds um somebody even made a a movie a 20-minute

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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

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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

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that we've uh seen people make are just um these uh it's how things interact

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with it one guy made a car using just logs with rope and these cubes and he

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put them in a certain way and it's just it's amazing that's really cool now if

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you were to go on Project Spark and make one of these games and try and

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distribute it how does that work in like rating systems and stuff like that uh

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well it's super easy to share it so as soon as you're ready to um show off what

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you've created you save it you share it and anybody with a Windows 8.1 Xbox 360

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or Xbox one will be able to download it and play it and uh the community they'll

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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

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you'll be able to see how many downloads versus how many likes cool that's really

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fun for project creators because I I know when I was a little kid I used to

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play an RPG Maker and like that was fun but I didn't really get to share it with

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anyone except for my mom which was cool and she always loved it but she's my mom

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so I don't know um it's it's really interesting and we can see in the

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background here this guy's made an island kind of thing with a moat and a

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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

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someone start playing this game well uh the game is available right now on

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Windows 8.1 if you go to join project

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spark.com you'll be able to sign up for the beta right and uh download it

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Through the Windows store perfect now you said it was coming to Xbox One and

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3602 so that would just be on the marketplace so uh like I said yeah

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Windows 8 beta is out now Xbox one will be coming out within the month or two

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and uh we haven't announced uh dates for the other sounds good sounds good no

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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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