The structure of Nintendo’s Game Builder Garage is fascinating, and might be its greatest asset in teaching newcomers to make games.

Nintendo's 'Game Builder Garage' might actually get reluctant coders into game-making on their Switch console.

After a hands-off preview of Game Builder Garage, I am tentatively optimistic that it will be the game-creating teaching tool I never had growing up but wished I did.

Nintendo’s latest “maker” game, Game Builder Garage, is the next logical step forward after Mario Maker. But Game Builder Garage lets kids and adults become their own developer, building off ...

Super Mario Maker this is not: think more like Nintendo Labo without the cardboard. After trying it at home, it feels like a lesson plan more than a game. I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009 ...

The idea of game design isn't new to Nintendo. The weird and often brilliant cardboard-folding Labo kits for the Nintendo Switch had elements of programming built into a mode called Toy-Con Garage.

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,” ...

Whereas the Toy-Con Garage was a freeform side mode, Game Builder Garage includes guided lessons designed by Nintendo's developers that illustrate what each Nodon does and how to string them together.

Nodon. I'm sorry? Nodon. Not Monad. Nodon. Funny word - a palindrome, which is always money in the bank. I picture a sort of spring, for some reason, a springy, chewy, bouncy thing, each side ...

Game Builder Garage - Overview Trailer - Nintendo Switch Watch on YouTube And it is, first and foremost, a software tutorial.

Game Builder Garage represents the best and worst of Nintendo, allowing for the explosion of creativity marred by lack of online support.