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Fuze Code Studio will let kids use the Switch to code their own Switch games

35 pointsby vanburenalmost 8 years ago

4 comments

phren0logyalmost 8 years ago
This particular tool, especially if it's not out for another year, is less interesting than the general idea of Nintendo being cool with a third-party coding environment on the Switch.
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RugnirVikingalmost 8 years ago
I worked on the older version of FUZE BASIC, which ran on a modified raspberry pi, for quite a while; It was very fun to make games etc, but it required quite a bit of knowledge. Teaching children to make simple text-based games was easy, but this had all the failings of the original basic, such as no oop, no else if, GOTO, no garbage collector, no hand-holding for graphics, no double-buffering etc that mean you have to wrap your head around some theory to even get started making much fun.<p>Another advantage is that fuze basic is&#x2F;was backwards compatible with BASIC written for bbc micro, so if you have the time you can copy games from old magazines, maybe even the original version of Elite! (though i did hear that had some lower level Assembly tricks that may be iffy)<p>Especially using the garbage collector correctly was a struggle, I often had to help people clean up after drawing on the screen because they would run out of memory very quickly.<p>Nonetheless, I did successfully teach a couple kids to make text-based games, and one did get back to me with a pirate themed number guessing game.
FLUX-YOUalmost 8 years ago
I can&#x27;t wait to hear about escaping whatever env&#x2F;jail the games run in and executing Fuze code on Switch hardware
jfmherokilleralmost 8 years ago
I could see this fail hard if it doesn&#x27;t have some kind of profanity filter
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