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

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.

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.

Another advantage is that fuze basic is/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)

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.

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.

I can't wait to hear about escaping whatever env/jail the games run in and executing Fuze code on Switch hardware

I could see this fail hard if it doesn't have some kind of profanity filter