PROJECT SPARK

Project Spark enables its users to build, play, and share games on Xbox One, Xbox 360, and Windows 8. It enables game players to download other user-generated content, remix that content to another game, or create content of their own. These created content (environments) can contain mountains, rivers, and towns as well as events such as inter-character battles. Its players are able to choose whether to start from a blank map or a pre-designed level, but always have the tools to customize the... topography, add plant and animal life, and program behaviors for specific objects such as a rock that bounces when a player is nearby. The topography is modified by pushing and pulling the earth, digging through surfaces after changing the view to adjust a wall or create holes in it. Anything added to the terrain reacts to the circumstance such as grass covering the floor and the vertical surfaces becoming rocks. Project Spark, developed by Team Dakota, was announced during Microsoft's E3 2013 press event. Registration for its beta began in late June 2013.More