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:

Hardware-inspired software

Don't forget that the theme is totally optional !

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.

Previous Tool Jams:

• The Tool Jam 1 (2021)
• The Tool Jam 2 (2022)
• The Tool Jam 3 (2023)
• The Tool Jam 4 (2024)

The Tool Jam ∞ is the project's main page, listing all jams, etc.

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.

Scissors: Picture by Lucasbosch.
Font: Mister Pixel by Christophe Badani
Palette: The Late Night Bath by Sukinapan