Game Builder Garage

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  • Summary: Have you ever dreamed of building your own video games? The Game Builder Garage™ software is a great place to start! Anyone can learn the basics of game design and visual programming with step-by-step lessons created by the minds at Nintendo.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 36 out of 55
  2. Mixed: 19 out of 55
  3. Negative: 0 out of 55
  1. Player 2
    Jul 6, 2021
    91
    There’s a very real chance that 10-15 years from now, interviews will feature many up and coming devs attributing their first step and successes to Game Builder Garage.
  2. Areajugones
    Jun 10, 2021
    85
    A quite satisfactory experience that immerses us fully in the world of programming without requiring hundreds of lines of code. It adapts perfectly to object-oriented programming, although with much simpler concepts achieved thanks to 'nodon'. Without a doubt, a great stimulant for your imagination.
  3. Ninty Fresh Magazine
    Dec 3, 2021
    80
    Game Builder Garage is great at teaching and can be hilarious to mess about with. Perfect for creative types, not so much for those who just want to play video games. [Issue #4, p.59]
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  4. Hobby Consolas
    Jun 10, 2021
    79
    An interesting game making tool, easy to learn and powerful enough to create and share our own minigames. Still we miss some utilities such as importing assets or composing music.
  5. Jeuxvideo.com
    Jun 11, 2021
    75
    If you want to offer your children software that will teach them the basics of professional video game creation, or if you want to discover this funny universe yourself with wacky characters rather than a cranky boss who sets up the "crunch ”, The Video Game Workshop is made for you. The lack of an integrated game browser still remains a huge limit to the community dimension.
  6. Vgames
    Jun 27, 2021
    70
    Game Builder Garage is simplistic and limited, but it's a good first lesson for a lot of players that wish to experience what gaming development is like.
  7. TheGamer
    Jun 10, 2021
    60
    Game Builder Garage feels like the perfect place to build a game prototype. You can create a basic idea, see if it works and is fun, and then maybe take that concept into a real game engine development kit - but not much more. It can truly pique the curiosities of kids, and I hope it does, but it's launched in a world where it has big competition, and the depth and charm of those tutorials which only Nintendo could pull off so well can't carry the rest of the experience.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 21
  3. Negative: 3 out of 21
  1. MinePlay512
    Jun 13, 2021
    10
    It's amazing to have a game that can help gamers and future developers to develop games. And Game Builder Garage is one of those game. It'sIt's amazing to have a game that can help gamers and future developers to develop games. And Game Builder Garage is one of those game. It's more than just a game, It's a recommendation. It's a masterpiece.… Expand
  2. yazidalsh
    Jun 13, 2021
    10
    love..................................................................................
  4. A-Jay
    Jun 20, 2021
    10
    For my money, Nintendo give a far superior crash course in game-building here than Media Molecule did with Dreams. Yes, Game Builder Garage isFor my money, Nintendo give a far superior crash course in game-building here than Media Molecule did with Dreams. Yes, Game Builder Garage is rather more limited in a number of ways but I rate it up there with its PlayStation counterpart. Superb. And I'm a grown man!… Expand
  5. Elite_Institute
    Mar 5, 2022
    7
    "I had some trepidation going into Game Builder Garage. I expected it to be either too basic, or too complicated. Thankfully Nintendo found a"I had some trepidation going into Game Builder Garage. I expected it to be either too basic, or too complicated. Thankfully Nintendo found a perfect balance with the creator. It has issues, for sure: it could have done with a couple of more game tutorials to cover the other Nodons, and some music in the creator would have been nice. With that being said, the creator is surprisingly accessible and extremely rewarding – even more so than Super Mario Maker 2 (at least, in my opinion). Hopefully Nintendo will support it down the line with additional lessons and maybe some extra objects. Any creatively minded Switch owners should snap this up, especially considering the uncharacteristically low selling price for a Nintendo game."

    https://theeliteinstitute.net/2021/06/22/game-builder-garage/    … Expand
  6. Syhlcam
    Jul 2, 2021
    7
    L’atelier du jeu vidéo est un excellent logiciel à visé éducative. Il ne fera pas de vous le prochain Miyamoto, Sakurai ou Aonuma. MaisL’atelier du jeu vidéo est un excellent logiciel à visé éducative. Il ne fera pas de vous le prochain Miyamoto, Sakurai ou Aonuma. Mais adressé à un public jeune, il peut faire officie d’initiation et créer des vocations ou simplement de l’intérêt pour le monde de la programmation. Le jeu est accessible pour ce public, même un public plus âgé peu utilisé ce logiciel pour apprendre les bases de la programmation et entre apercevoir comment tout fonctionne. Mais ils possèdent quelques défauts, que ce soit la compilation, les limitations de création ou encore le mode en ligne et la non-présence d’un moteur de recherche et de certaines notions.

    + Très accessible
    + Leçon bien réalisé
    + Nombreux tutoriel
    + Une création libre

    - L’aspect communautaire absent
    - Compilation 3D
    - Certaines notions manquantes
    - Certains nodons trop limité en nombre
    - Une création limitée en espace    … Expand
  7. gietergeit
    May 15, 2023
    6
    it is fine .
  8. Arainami
    Jun 16, 2021
    0
    I pre-ordered this game because the page indicated the Russian language. Now it turns out that it's not there, and the mention of the languageI pre-ordered this game because the page indicated the Russian language. Now it turns out that it's not there, and the mention of the language was removed from the page in eshop. And I already can not get my money back. Nintendo are liars.… Expand

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#48 Most Discussed Switch Game of 2021