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Game Builder Garage
Released On: Jun 11, 2021
77
7.8
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Generally Favorable
Based on 58 Critic Reviews
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62% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 58 Critic Reviews
77
62% Positive
36 Reviews
36 Reviews
33% Mixed
19 Reviews
19 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
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.
A courageous experiment that deserves the attention of those who are not satisfied with remaining on the surface of the videogame medium. The experience appears at first as less captivating than titles like Super Mario Maker, but the satisfaction you get by entering the rabbit hole and discovering the secrets of programming is priceless. We are curious to find out how the Video Game Lab community will evolve, and we will try with interest the creations of budding developers from all over the world.
Game Builder Garage seems to want to showcase just what it’s like to make a game, albeit in a simpler way. It’s sometimes challenging to the point of being headache-inducing. It is unrelentingly complicated. When it clicks, however, it’s fun, magical, and incredibly rewarding.
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.
Game Builder Garage offers enough tools to make everything from a simple platformer to a racing game to a space sim. The only downside is that it’s hard to discover games made by other players. [Issue#254, p.64]
Game Builder Garage seems like a game that will live or die based on the strength of its community. If players pick up where Nintendo left off and provide quick online tutorials for achieving the trickier game-building techniques that Bob doesn't cover well enough, it might become something special. Even without that, it's a decent first step for anyone looking to learn about programming, especially kids.
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.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 50 User Ratings
7.8
68% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 50 User Ratings
7.8
68% Positive
34 Ratings
34 Ratings
20% Mixed
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
12% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
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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.
Rated E
for Everyone
Platforms:
- Nintendo Switch
Initial Release Date: Jun 11, 2021
Developer:
- Nintendo
Publisher: Nintendo
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