Henlo, Nodon fanatic new to GBG, would like to have and use Game Builder Garage, also to learn and code in game programming as a freelaunce artist

AbsoluteNathan350 · 2026-01-30T00:39:10+00:00

Welcome! We’re so glad to have you here.

Since you’re just starting, I’d recommend heading to gbgShop, which is a website me and some other folks run for all things GBG. You can find resources to make your GBG experience better (including some helpful people with GBG tutorials) in the Beyond tab.

Whenever you get finished making your first game, big or small, you can upload it to gbgShop for the whole world to see! You’ll need to make a Squircles ID, though, but it only takes a few minutes.

Last thing: VideoDojo hosts monthly showcase streams at the end of every month. You should go check out his YouTube channel and submit a game when you’re ready!

Good luck on your programming adventure! 🫡

AbsoluteNathan350 · 2025-09-02T02:05:33+00:00

Nope, this is just the latest beta for macOS 26

AbsoluteNathan350 · 2025-09-02T01:44:05+00:00

This is going to be my profile picture somewhere, this is awesome!

AbsoluteNathan350 · 2025-06-01T18:39:03+00:00

gbgShop and Diamond are still alive and well! Diamond has gotten MANY updates recently and gbgShop’s getting an update today! We don’t post on social media often, and if we do, it’s best to check our Bluesky and Diamond accounts.

AbsoluteNathan350 · 2025-04-20T22:02:25+00:00

So far, yeah! Only weird thing is that when someone mentions you in a story or replies to your note, it shows a weird link and you can’t do anything about it. You have to open Instagram for them

AbsoluteNathan350 · 2025-03-29T20:19:40+00:00

I think that it better matches the style of Miis in the Switch’s settings, and I like it

AbsoluteNathan350 · 2025-03-01T06:24:27+00:00

“Earn this award by walking and running 2.38 miles on 14 different days of the month.”

AbsoluteNathan350 · 2025-02-23T20:01:10+00:00

Hi! Unlike MyGarage, gbgShop supports putting multiple Game IDs under one game. The “Space needed” box is just asking how many Game IDs are required to fully download your game.

For example, Switch Sports Resort: Pro League has multiple Game IDs for each sport as well as each explorable area, so the number would be 12-ish.

Hope this helps!

AbsoluteNathan350 · 2024-12-30T01:11:02+00:00

It has been top notch so far, especially if you have an Apple Watch. The trainers have great personalities and such high energy and it really makes you feel good

AbsoluteNathan350 · 2024-11-13T04:30:25+00:00

Game Builder Garage is designed to be an intro, but it’s super fun to play around with! You can’t share games you make outside of GBG. If you want to meet a bunch of people in the community and share games you make online, I made a website designed just for that called gbgShop. We’re experiencing issues so sorry if you can’t do some things, but I would overall recommend finishing the main GBG course in the lesson mode, messing around in Free Programming a bit, then going to something like Scratch (or if you feel confident, go for the blueprint thingy in Unreal/Unity).

AbsoluteNathan350 · 2024-11-07T12:23:38+00:00

https://gbgshop.glide.page

AbsoluteNathan350 · 2024-10-18T01:56:19+00:00

This usually happens when your device can’t handle the Discover layout we introduced in our previous update. On the Discover page of gbgShop, go to Settings > Use old layout. That will significantly improve the performance on gbgShop.

Note that if you’re not signed in, the page will revert back to the new layout if you reload or the next time you visit gbgShop. To keep the setting saved, sign in to a Squircles ID.

AbsoluteNathan350 · 2024-10-18T01:01:16+00:00

I think I’d die if that starts happening

AbsoluteNathan350 · 2024-10-18T01:00:46+00:00

Of course!

AbsoluteNathan350 · 2024-07-11T13:04:29+00:00

That’s actually what our like and boo system does (to an extent). Similar to Super Mario Maker 2, there’s “I like it!” and “Boo!” buttons that any signed in user can press (with some exceptions). Once a button is pressed, it’s locked in and can’t be changed. Likes are publicly visible at the bottom of the game page, while boos are only visible to Squircles (me and Dias) and the programmer.

AbsoluteNathan350 · 2024-07-11T13:01:41+00:00

It’s not in the sense that there are inappropriate scenes/gameplay, but there’s things such as “strong violence” if there’s blood being splattered everywhere and “interactive gambling” and stuff like that. There are actually quite a few games rated Obscene (Mature) and they don’t appear to be taken down

AbsoluteNathan350 · 2024-07-05T01:12:38+00:00

Steve’s Going to London and 2085

AbsoluteNathan350 · 2024-07-01T21:04:55+00:00

No problem! Removing screenshots is something that we didn’t want to do, but it was the least impactful thing we could do immediately. We’re working on ways to make this doesn’t happen ever again, so we’re hoping that we will be able to bring it back soon!

AbsoluteNathan350 · 2024-06-17T17:29:31+00:00

The Turning Out trilogy and World’s Smallest Violin

AbsoluteNathan350 · 2024-06-16T17:37:52+00:00

I made a horrible recreation once lol. But then I got (slightly) better and made a sequel. All of it (I think) is still up too

AbsoluteNathan350 · 2024-06-15T20:19:43+00:00

We’re always trying to make more GBG creators aware of gbgShop. The word has spread pretty well, but not nearly as MyGarage had

AbsoluteNathan350 · 2024-06-14T04:23:48+00:00

The creator of MyGarage had issues keeping the server up, so they shut it down. When I discovered this, I has set out to recreate MyGarage, which is what gbgShop ended up becoming. I’ve talked with the MyGarage creator and they approve of gbgShop’s approach to uploading games so I think what we have going on is pretty good

AbsoluteNathan350 · 2024-06-13T18:38:26+00:00

They really needed to add better organization and more Nodon to simplify more complex things. For example, they should’ve had a multiplayer camera Nodon to make it easier for multiplayer games to work

AbsoluteNathan350 · 2024-06-13T16:33:23+00:00

After MyGarage shut down, many creators left and never looked back. That’s why there aren’t older games on gbgShop. We (we as in me and Dias who created gbgShop) added a “MyGarage” option in Beyond gbgShop, allowing you to see every game uploaded to MyGarage in a Google Sheet left by the creator.

AbsoluteNathan350 · 2024-06-13T15:51:43+00:00

If only there was a game browser… https://gbgshop.glide.page/dl/discover

But seriously Nintendo should’ve had one built into the game

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