"It's about getting feedback from players before it's even finished and getting players really excited about it throughout the process, " said Jim Rossignol, co-founder of indie game studio Big Robot, which used Kickstarter to get funds to finish a game called Sir, You Are Being Hunted.

BBC: Kickstarter: Games by the people, for the people

Recent developments for a robotics programming language include Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (MRDS), a Windows-based environment for robot control and simulation.

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