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 ...

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, ...

If you’re averse to hand-holding, Game Builder Garage will probably rub you the wrong way. It’s a learning tool first and a creation tool second. (And a sharing tool… fifth? It’s not great at that, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back when Game Builder Garage was announced, I was curious to see what Nintendo would come up with. Having had the game demoed to me, it looks like it will be a very handy learning tool for aspiring ...

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,” ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...