While we've seen some pretty amazing custom levels on PlayStation 3's Little Big Planet, Microsoft's answer to a user generated content game is a bit different.  The toolkit is called Kodu, and it's designed from the ground up to be a visual programming experience.

While there's no way to create the game in a cooperative mode, you can create cooperative experiences and then share them with your friends.  It's incredibly easy to add more players to the mix with the easy to use script language and before you know it you can have a playground for your friends.

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I think it's human nature to want to try to create.  Whether you are creating your own art, literature, movies or games; humans have a switch somewhere in that brain of theirs that makes them creative.  Every gamer at some point as said - "I want to make a game."

For some the learning curve is simply too much for a programming language, or even some of the out of the box solutions like that of GarageGames or even XNA.  Microsoft's next entry into this world is called Kodu (formerly Boku) and it's a visual programming langauge.  

Kodu was demonstrated live last night during Microsoft's CES keynote, and it was demo'd by a 12 year old girl named Sparrow (Fable 2 reference perhaps?).  From the looks of things actions are broken down into logic blocks which can be stacked into full routines, think LEGO Mindstorm.  It's tough to say how open ended Kodu is, but we do know there's multiplayer support - so co-op is possible.  

Kodu launches this spring on Xbox Live Community Games Channel.  So what do you say, will you try your hand at creating a co-op game?

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