Like a lot of gamers, I would love to be able to make a game of my own someday. And it’s not as simple as “learn to code” — for one thing, I actually did learn coding in junior high and high school, ...

And those explanations aren’t just “use this function to build blocks for your character” and “here’s when you can draw your character.” The game walks you through the different tools step-by-step, ...

Game Builder Garage is a powerful game-making tool. Its visual programming language makes understanding its complex systems relatively easy for both adults and children — those with no programming ...

Anyone who seriously wants to become a video game designer studies Nintendo games. Over multiple decades, Nintendo's titles have massively influenced numerous genres thanks to teams so creative and ...

Nintendo has just announced an exciting new Switch title that puts game design in the hands of the masses. Game Builder Garage is all about learning to program simple video games from the bottom up, ...

Game Builder Garage is surprisingly complicated for a Nintendo game. It can be overwhelming, and difficult, and surely can easily teeter into frustration from time to time. But… that’s game design, ...

Back when Game Builder Garage was announced, I genuinely thought that this was an absolute stroke of genius on the part of Nintendo. Now that the “game” is actually here, it’s clear that it so much ...

The new Switch release is less of a game and more of a design tool. It allows players to create their own games, while learning the basics of programming. It’s all represented through “nodons,” ...

Game Builder Garage is Nintendo’s next logical step after Mario Maker. Polygon sat down with the Japanese company for a hands-off preview of the its latest game, which aims to turn everyone into a ...

Nintendo offers its Switch owners the opportunity to design games for themselves and others with Game Builder Garage, a programming game built in-house at Nintendo. It’s less a game in the strictest ...

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