Play WarioWare - Do It Yourself (E) Online

WarioWare: Do It Yourself came out on the Nintendo DS in 2010, published by Nintendo. It arrived late in the handheld's life, a time when the library was already packed with inventive titles, but it carved out its own niche by focusing entirely on player creation. Instead of just playing through Wario's usual rapid fire microgames, you get to build them from the ground up.

You control a cursor to navigate menus, draw characters and backgrounds with the stylus, and program simple logic for your games. The main objective is to complete Wario's story mode to unlock assets and then spend most of your time in the extensive DIY workshop. Signature mechanics include using a node based flowchart to dictate game behavior, like setting conditions for win or lose states, and composing short music tracks with a simple sequencer. The pace is entirely your own; making a game can take minutes or hours, depending on how detailed you want to get. It feels like having a charming, slightly unhinged game development toolkit crammed into a DS cartridge.