The Tool Jam has started !

The jam is over !

Please take the time to test the tools, give feedback, and rate them! (Anyone can vote. You don't have to have joined the Jam!)

The winner is L.I.N.K a free form note taking system. Here is the LINK JAM ! hope to see you there !  Congratulations and thank you to all the participants there were really great tools ! Check them out if you haven't already done so !

This Jam is about creating a tool.

It can be a drawing tool, an animation tool, a music tool, a writing tool, a character generator, an idea generator, a game engine, a new programming language, an mp3 to jpeg file converter, a spelling mistake generator, an MS Paint clone, or anything else.

• Low-effort buggy tools that you develop in 30 minutes are welcome.
• Ultra classy, customizable and full of features tools are welcome.

(NB: rules and guidelines may still change, so check back when the Jam starts.)

• Your entry must be a tool.
• You can start working on the project before the jam starts or finalize an old project for the jam.
• But you can't submit a project that was already published on itch.io before the jam.

Apart from that pretty much everything is allowed: anyone can enter, working in a team is allowed, submitting multiple entries or submitting an entry to other jams is allowed, using pre-existing assets or code, working with any game engine/language/tool, it's all ok.

• Your tool is available on multiple platforms to reach as many people as possible. (Web/Linux/Win/Mac...)
• It is free and open source. (share your code)
• It can be used in a video game development process.

The theme is : This tool is alive.

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You can for example think of a tool that talks, feels emotions or acts like a living person. Don't forget: this theme is totally optional, you can take it literally, interpret it as you want or not use it at all.

Tools will be rated by anyone based on three criteria:

• How nice or fun it is to use.
• How much I could potentially use it in the future.
• How innovative or original it is.

Another Jam will be hosted in the future with the constraint of having to use the tool that will have won this Jam. (Of course, this is only if the winner agrees, otherwise we take the second etc.)

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Questions?

If you have questions, please use the community section.

Discord?

Here is the discord server !! (maintained by Arindam Trivedi)

Credits:

1-Bit Icons (I and II) by VECTORPIXELSTAR.
Font Mister Pixel by Christophe Badani (VTF).
The EN4 Palette by ENDESGA.
Photographs of tools by Marcelo.