MakeCode Arcade Released for General Availability #MakeCode #MakeCodeArcade @MSMakeCode
The MakeCode team announces via their blog that MakeCode Arcade has been officially released for general availability!
For those of you who have been following our progress, you’ll know that we’ve been working on MakeCode Arcade for about 2 years now… and we’ve had it in Beta for the past year while we’ve continued to get feedback, fix bugs, make improvements and just generally polish up the experience.
Huge thanks to everyone who has been using the Beta version, filing bugs and offering us suggestions (shout-outs to Kevin J Walters and Alex Kulcsar for helping us find a lot of great bugs!). Also big thanks to our amazing hardware partners who have worked with us to make super fun Arcade-compatible game devices that really bring the Arcade games to life! Check them out here – https://arcade.makecode.com/hardware.
See their post for a list of new features and improvements. If you are new to MakeCode Arcade, the overview video below is a great way to see what MakeCode Arcade is all about.
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