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 ...

There's a part of me that greatly appreciates Nintendo's efforts to teach its user base the ins-and-outs of creating a game. As anybody who's ever been deep in game development will testify, making a ...

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 ...

No company has left a bigger mark on the way video games are made than Nintendo. Now, Nintendo has a plan to teach the next generation of game makers. Game Builder Garage is Nintendo’s first game that ...

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, ...

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,” ...

When it comes to game design, few come close to the folks over at Nintendo. Throughout the years, the Japanese gaming giant has given us plenty of awesome experiences, and have influenced even more ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...