

For instance, the sample below shows how to program a character to find and eat all the apples in the game world. The kode is continuously evaluated so that it immediately reacts to any changes in the state of the world. The language is high level in the sense that a lot can be accomplished in a very few lines of “kode” compared to traditional programming. The heart of Kodu is the tile-based programming language. Guided by this goal, we've tended to design new features so that they are simple and understandable rather than more complex and complete. The goal for Kodu has always been to be as easy as possible for new users. Since porting to the PC, support for keyboard, mouse, and touch have been added. The choice of releasing on the Xbox informed much of the early UI development since everything needed to be done using a game controller.

The original target platform was the Xbox 360 using C#, XNA, and releasing via the Indie Games Channel. Kodu originated as a project in Microsoft Research. Kodu allows creators to build the world's terrain, populate it with characters and props, and then program their behaviors and games rules in a bespoke visual programming language. The lab initialed-care models provide specific guidance for laboratories who wish to become involved in providing therapeutic guidance based on evidence and promote laboratory driven facilitated interventions.Kodu Game Lab is a 3D game development environment that is designed to teach kids basic programming principles. Therapeutic topics presented in the lab initialed-care models involve high frequency, high risk, and high-cost health conditions that impact large groups of the population and include both chronic and acute conditions.

The lab initialed-care models highlight therapeutic issues where laboratory medicine can have a significant role in changing patient outcomes, reducing costs, and supporting population health using longitudinal laboratory data and laboratory driven clinical insights. The Project Santa Fe Foundation, as a thought leadership organization, supports the development of lab initialed-care models to promote the development and implementation of Clinical Lab 2.0 around specific clinical topics.
