One of the main, if not the only, motivator for kids to want to learn programming is video games. They grow up playing video games and at some point decide that a career in the gaming industry ...

Nintendo has announced 'Game Builder Garage', a new visual programming suite for the Nintendo Switch that lets players build and share games.

Online game development degree courses Combining math, engineering and coding, your game development and programming degree courses will touch on everything needed to build video games. From interface ...

David Weintrop, Uri Wilensky, Playing by Programming: Making Gameplay a Programming Activity, Educational Technology, Vol. 56, No. 3 (May-June 2016), pp. 36-41 ...

The TIOBE Index is an indicator of which programming languages are most popular within a given month. According to the TIOBE ...

Whether you need assets for your current game or are learning how to code from scratch, these cheap bundles are worth checking out.

Instead of coding with text, you can use a "card-based visual programming system" to bring your creations to life.

To build more complex interactions, you use Game Builder’s card-based visual programming system. That’s pretty straightforward, too, but also takes some getting used to.

The game has two modes: a first person 3-D world not unlike those found in commercial video games, and a visual programming environment not unlike Scratch, a programming environment for kids.