I was warned that the Code Is Literacy people are fanatics, but I attended this session to hear about the intriguing-sounding game, Code Hero. However, the at least the first third of the presentation was a summary of the CIL tenets. When Alex Peake finally got around to describing the game, there was no time afterwards for Q & A.
Code Hero itself looks promising, although it probably needs more tweeking. It feels a bit like Portal, although not as witty. Your code ray allows you to affect your environment starting in simple ways, but then increases in complexity. I wonder if the transition is smooth enough because the demonstration jumped from simple lines to full debugger page fairly quickly. It felt a bit overwhelming, but could have seemed that way simply from the pace of the presentation.
The goal of the game is to allow you to create and program your own video games. I hope that skill will transfer to other computer applications, as well.
