This Jam is about creating a tool.

It can be a spreadsheet application, a painting tool, an animation maker, a music sequencer, a word processor, a bad idea generator, a game engine, a palette mixer, a fantasy console, a new programming language, a .png to .wav file converter, a spelling mistake generator, an MS Paint clone, another to-do list manager, a broken weather app, 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.

• 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.

The theme is :

Bug as a feature 

(For example : Keep or polish a bug that appears during development. Invent a bug, emulate a bug. Fix or track a feature. Learn from your mistakes and make your mistakes learn from you.)

Important: 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.

Last Tool Jams:

• The Tool Jam 1 (2021)
• The Tool Jam 2 (2022)
• The Tool Jam 3 (2023)

Questions?

If you have questions, please use the community section.

Discord?

Yes there is a discord server

Credits:

1-Bit Icons: (I and II) by PiiiXL.

Pliers: Model by Mike Klubnika.
Font: Mister Pixel by Christophe Badani (VTF)
Palette: The Nicole Punk 82 by RetroPunkZ