Make it once, use it everywhere
A palette, a sprite, a tune, a whole cart — each is a typed material any app can pick up. Draw it once, then reach for it in everything you build after.
A little creative computer
A little computer for making little things.
And the tools are little things too — the pixel editor is itself a cart you can open, fork and rebuild. Everything you make becomes material for the next thing. Not an app — a place where apps are made.
Build. Fork. Remix.
Fork the editor
No other tool lets you fork the builder.
The pixel editor isn't a fixed feature — it's a cart, made of the same code and capabilities as the things you make with it. So you can open it up, see exactly how it works, and rebuild it into your own.
- View its source. Hit “view source” on the editor and you're looking at the whole thing — no black box, no built-ins you can't reach.
- Add your tool. Want a symmetry brush or a new export? Fork it and bolt it on. It's just code and capabilities — the same ones your own carts use.
- Ship your editor. Save it, use it, share it. Someone forks yours and adds the next thing. The builder is just another little thing you can rebuild.
pixel-editor.cartview sourcefork +your-editor.cart
The Drive
Everything you make becomes material for the next thing.
Your Drive isn't storage — it's a pile of materials. A palette you mixed flows into a game. A tune you wrote drops into a widget. Make one little thing, and it feeds the next.
Recursion, not a feature list
A palette flows into a game. A tune drops into a widget. Your sprite becomes someone else's avatar. The things you make compose into things you never planned.
Files you can hold
Download them, send them, re-import them. Your creations are yours — as real, portable files, on Tikku or off it. Nothing is trapped in a tab.
What you make
Two crafts to start. The rest, you'll build.
Today Tikku ships two makers — a pixel editor for sprites, and carts for little games and toys. More are coming, but the real plan is that you build them: every editor is a cart you can fork.
Pixel art
Draw sprites and animation in the pixel editor — itself a cart you can crack open and rebuild.
Carts
Code little games, toys and generative art on a real canvas — sprites, input and sound. The open end of the box.
More — by you
Music, animation, makers we haven't dreamed up. They're coming — and since every editor is a forkable cart, you might ship them first.
A creative computer
It's tools all the way down.
Most tools hand you one editor and lock the doors. Tikku hands you the whole workshop: every file opens in an app, every app is something you can open up, and you can teach the whole place new tricks.
- Apps are file handlers. A sprite opens in your pixel editor. A tune opens in your tracker. You decide what opens what.
- The editors are apps too. Made of the same carts and capabilities as anything you build — so nothing is a sealed box you can't reach into.
- Invent your own file types. Define a format, register a handler, and the whole computer learns how to open it.
.sprite.cart.tune.palette.sheet.widget
Getting in
Start from a spark, not a blank page.
Open or fork something
Crack open a cart, fork an editor, or start from a blank one. Don't want to write the boilerplate? AI can sketch a first pass so you skip straight to the fun part.
Make it yours
Draw the sprites, write the tune, edit the code by hand. It all lands in a real editor you can touch — never a re-promptable black box. You own it.
Pass it on
Save it to your Drive, publish it, share the file. Someone forks it and adds the next thing — and your creation becomes their material.
Open the box. Take it apart.
Make a little thing, fork the tool that made it, and see what you build next — free to start.
Open Tikku