SmileBASIC, a development platform allowing to create games on Nintendo 3DS, has been available. It took more than a year since we have made the announcement back in 2014 during Tokyo Game Show but we finally managed to make it available for North America. In the Miiverse community for Japanese version of SmileBASIC there is a good atmosphere that experts answer questions from beginners very tenderly. I guess that every beginner tends to ask similar questions like "I don't know what to do with SmileBASIC" but I would like experts like you to answer them with your great experience and expertise. It is my belief that the community is the place to bring up all future enjoyable programmers. Of course, my company is fully committed to helping out all of you having any type of questions. There are 2 different verified characters in the Miiverse. The first one is "smile5884" who takes care of questions you have, problems you found and additional features you want. The other one is "smileDr. (Hakase)" who manages a warehouse where all available public keys are stored. The public keys has been stored since Nov. '14 when the Japanese version of SmileBASIC was released and you will enjoy games/contents created by Japanese users by having a public key to download. (Please note that older games/contents should have a different public key from the original) smileDr. will talk more about the public key warehouse. All of us are based in Japan and it should take longer to respond back due to the time zone difference but we always trying to be as much flexible as possible in order to support users outside Japan. Please feel free to contact us with your questions or problems. You can talk to us in English. Looking forward to seeing your great works which can compare favorably with the works by Japanese users. I am expecting that lots of enjoyable programmers are born and will play an important role in the Japanese gaming industry.

I have a question about SmileBASIC Ogiri. It says we can only submit unpublished, yet to be released programs, but then says unpublished programs include programs shared on blogs, Miiverse, etc. So I just wanted clarification, are we allowed to submit programs into the contest we've shared with others, or can we only submit programs that we haven't shared yet?

I'd just like to say that this software is amazing. I've dreamed of having something like this ever since I was a kid, way back in the 80s. I loved BASIC, and now that I can take it anywhere and make games with real graphics -- it's a dream come true. Thank you for bringing this to North America! I hope the rest of the world can be as lucky someday.