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Game Builder Garage

The premise alone is exciting: who better to teach lessons in game-making than Nintendo? Game Builder Garage offers a series of playful lessons built around an intuitive visual programming language: you’ll create seven very different games (from a straightforward game of tag to a side-scrolling shoot-’em-up and eventually a 3D platformer) by placing anthropomorphic nodes, of course, but as a cheerfully accessible way to grasp the basics of game creation, this is hard to beat.

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