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.

What is Game Builder Garage Game Builder Garage is a new “maker game” from Nintendo. Like Mario Maker, it inspires players to take existing game ideas and twist them into something new.

Game Builder Garage's seven interactive lessons make games, but pretty basic ones. They're really illustrating dimensions of how flexible Nintendo's game-design engine and programming mini-tasks ...

Game Builder Garage turns Nintendo's tendency to overexplain into a foolproof programming tutorial.

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.

Nintendo's upcoming 'Game Builder Garage' hopes to teach kids the fundamentals of good game design.

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.

While games about making games are nothing new with the likes of LABO VR, Mario Maker 2, Dreams, Crayta already on the market, Game Builder Garage looks like a wholly unique experience.

Nintendo's new game creation software may not let you make the game of your dreams, but it's a fun-to-use toolkit nonetheless.