cooltools

= Cool Tools =

Game Hacking

 * Alice (PC & Mac) - programming in a 3D environment (intermediate)
 * Corona SDK Starter (PC & Mac) - game design platform for apps (advanced)
 * Craftyy (online) - learn about making games with HTML 5 by remixing games
 * Game Adventure Studio (PC) - bring your adventure game to life (intermediate)
 * Gamestar Mechanic (online) - learn to create a game by playing a game (beginner)
 * Game Maker Studio (PC & Mac) - game design platform to create casual, social games (advanced)
 * Game Salad (PC & Mac) - game design engine for multiple platforms including mobile (advanced)
 * PyGames (open source) - a set of Python modules designed for writing games (advanced)
 * Scratch (online) - create and share interactive stories, games, music and art (beginner)
 * Stencyl (PC & Mac) - web and mobile game creator (intermediate)
 * TouchDevelop (online) - create mobile games (beginner)
 * Twine (PC & Mac) - create your own interactive adventure game (intermediate)
 * Unreal Engine (PC) - 3D game making developer kit (advanced)
 * Unity (PC & Mac) - 3D game design engine (advanced)

Image Hacking

 * Compfight (online) - a flickr search tool
 * Creative Commons (online) - search for images you can reuse and remix
 * CGTextures (online) - great site to find background image inspiration
 * ezimba (online) - image converter
 * GIMP (open source) - advanced image editor
 * InkScape (open source) - free vector graphics editor
 * Paint.Net (PC) - awesome, free image editor
 * Pickle (Mac & PC) - pixel editor
 * piq (online) - draw pixel art (export a BMP)
 * Piskel (online) - sprite editor (export a PNG)
 * pixabay (online) - copyright free images
 * Pixlr (online) - online photo editor
 * Seashore (Mac) - simple image editor
 * SumoPaint (online) - image creator with lots of cool effects

Audio Hacking

 * Audacity (PC & Mac) - sound recorder & editor
 * Bfx (online) - make sound effects for your game
 * EarSketch (online) - code your own music (intro instructions)
 * Free Music Archive (online) - interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads
 * Freesound (online) - collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, & recordings released under Creative Commons licenses
 * Incompetech (online) - royalty free sound effects & full music tracks
 * Jamendo (online) - creative commons music tracks
 * PartnersinRhyme (online) - free sound effects
 * Soundation (online) - generate 4 audio track sounds
 * WolframTones (online) - tool to generate interesting sounds

Code Hacking

 * Blockly (online) - program your way through a maze and other blockly apps
 * CodeAvengers (online) - another fun Javascript tutorial
 * Code Maven (online) - very visual Javascript tutorial
 * CodeSpells (Mac) - learn to program by crafting your own magic spells
 * Hackety Hack (PC & Mac) - learn Ruby programming
 * Khan Academy Code Editor (online) - code runs while you edit plus lots of video tutorials
 * light-Bot & light-Bot 2.0 (online) - program the bot to light things up
 * Processing (open source) - learn programming fundamentals within a visual context
 * Robo Rally (online) - a robo rally programming game (select Examples of Play -> Mini Rally Training Ground)