I am trying to get in contact with someone at Microsoft to discuss the future for kode and the possibility of the community developing an open source Project Spark 2 game engine using kode as the programming language for people to develop games. I am not interested in the PS assets with their asymmetrical and swirly nonsense, so MS can keep them, all I think we would need would be a licence to use the tiles and the kode method of programming. Assets would then be simple forms and textures so you could develop your own props, music could be developed in the community, as could UI elements. I think there are many talented people that loved Project Spark and would be keen to be involved in developing its future incarnation.
So far I have been redirected to the wrong people or totally ignored. Has anyone else tried to contact Microsoft about the future for kode? Do you think it would be possible to crowdfund the project, and get developers interested enough to work on it? Would you be interested in such a project and program? Do you think Microsoft would rather keep the rights to themselves and do nothing with it rather than let the community run with it?