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Getting started with Tikku
The short version: open Tikku, make your first thing, fork an editor to make it yours, and save it to your Drive. Here's how the pieces fit together.
Getting started
Four steps to your first app
Make your first thing
Open a cart, fork an editor, or start blank. Don't feel like writing the boilerplate? Let AI sketch a first pass — a tracker, a dice roller, a little game — and it drops straight into a real editor you can take over.
Make it yours
Open it directly and tweak the layout, the colours, the logic, the code by hand. Fork the editor itself if it's missing a tool. Make it fit the way you actually think.
Save & keep it
Save it to your Drive. It's a file now: reopen it any time, fork it into something new, or share it so a friend can remix it.
Core concepts
The handful of ideas that make Tikku click
Carts & widgets
A cart is code plus graphics plus audio on a real canvas — games, toys, generative art. A widget is a smaller dashboard tile made of UI. Both are just files, and the editors that make them are carts too.
The editors
Hands-on makers for each craft: a pixel editor for sprites, a code editor for carts, more on the way. Each editor is itself a cart — so you can open its source, fork it, and add the tool it's missing.
The Drive & files
Everything you make is a real file in your Drive — apps, sprites, tunes, palettes, carts. Files are yours to reopen, reuse, fork and share. The Drive is the through-line that keeps your work alive.
Sharing & remixing
Publish an app or share a file, and others can open it, fork it, and build on it. Remixing is first-class — most good things start as someone else's good thing.
Capabilities
What your apps can do
Apps reach for capabilities when they need to remember things. You don't wire up a backend — you just use them.
- kvsimple key/value storage for small bits of state
- sqla real SQL database per app for structured data
- blobbinary/file storage for images, audio and more
These docs are growing. We're filling in deeper guides as Tikku settles — for now, the fastest way to learn it is to open the sandbox and make something small.