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rusty and I are excited to be here today to give you a small glimpse at what project spark can do across devices on a variety of inputs rusty is going to start off by creating a beautiful world on a Windows 8 desktop with touch controls and in less than five minutes we'll build a game from scratch be a smart glass on the recently announced Xbox one project spark is an open-world digital canvas that enables anyone to build play and share whatever they can imagine it's a powerful yet simple way to create your own worlds stories and games project spark will be available on xbox one xbox 360 and windows 8 and through the power of the cloud it lets you seamlessly carry over your progress and content from one platform to another it's an ongoing service with frequent updates and content additions across all of our platforms play the way you want on whichever platform you want now rusty is just putting the finishing touches here on our game setting we've chosen desert oasis he's using our paintbrush to put in some finite detail a little greenery around the pond there let's put a couple more finishing touches on this rusty will play with the time of day and let's do the position of the Sun that's cool all right and then we'll finish off with placing an enemy for our gameplay scenario your choice you chose the Goblin nice place him in there excellent alright so rusty is going to save what he just made to the cloud and we'll pick up over here in our living room without losing a beat imagine the possibilities they're unlocked by creating away from your console and then playing your masterpiece over on the big screen seamlessly creating back and forth devices that you're ready just waiting for your next inspiration this is digital age nirvana all right rusty so we're loading this up on the Xbox one we want to see our desert oasis and our low gameplay moment with the Goblin here Rusty's on controller right now there we are looks good now being across all devices opens up new methods of input and allows us to innovate with games of all types even though we're now playing on an xbox one we can use SmartGlass and remote rendering on any windows 8 device to keep creating with amazing touch controls so rusty let's change this controller based action mechanic into something maybe a little less predictable for console gaming in project spark we can add behaviors to anything in the world or alter brains that already exist on things and play around with this goblin brain and make a quick touch game for everyone so rusty started by deleting the default brain we're going to build one from scratch the brain is broken up into a win and a do side the visual language is simple yet very powerful we're going to tell the Goblin here to jump on the ground after specified time to a height of what are we gonna pick up five meters we think burak then we want to put one other child rule in and that will execute after the effect which will destroy whatever we've touched making this our main mechanic all right looks good all right now finally we'll use our clone command to make more goblins here we just can't have one Goblin jumping around and with more time rusty could set up timers scores sounds and so much more rusty let's change a couple of those goblins into something different give it a little visual variety here in the desert he's chosen Yeti interesting choice so we'll put a Yeti in there may be another one all right looking good perfect and then let's play with the position a little bit so we get some height variety there we go all right now rusty should be able to swipe or touch these enemies and trying to feed them all ah there they are now in just a few minutes he was able to create a touch game he started on windows 8 and completed over on xbox one with SmartGlass with project spark and Microsoft services the power to create across devices to delight with multiple inputs and the freedom to do it anywhere has never been easier for developers and players we're taking registration for our beta on Windows 8 at join project spark calm and you can also come by and check us out later in the gaming lounge to see the creativity that project spark can unlock we'd like to finish by showing you a short sample of some of the cross platform games people just like you have brought to life using project spark thank you Oh