Open or fork something
Crack open a cart, fork an editor, or start from a blank one. Stuck on the boilerplate? AI can sketch a first pass so you skip straight to the fun part — but it's an on-ramp, not the point.
How it works
Open it, fork it, make it yours.
Tikku is a little computer where the tools are made of the same stuff as the things you make — so you can open them up, rebuild them, and keep everything in your Drive. Here's the shape of it.
Make it yours
Draw the sprites in the pixel editor, write the melody in the tracker, edit the code by hand. Every change lands in a real editor you can touch — Tikku hands you the keys, it never keeps them.
Pass it on
Save it, fork it, share the file. Whatever you make — sprites, tunes, carts — lands in your Drive, ready to reopen and reuse. Someone forks it and adds the next thing; your creation becomes their material.
The surfaces
Two crafts to start. The rest, you'll build.
Today there's a pixel editor and carts — and because the editors are themselves forkable carts, the next maker is one you can build. Breadth comes from you, not from a longer feature list.
The pixel editor
Draw sprites and animation — and the editor itself is a cart you can open, fork and rebuild. Add a brush, change an export, ship your own. The proof that the tools are little things too.
Carts
Code plus graphics plus audio on a real canvas. Games, toys, generative art, visual experiments — the open end of the box, where you reach for sprites, input and sound.
Your own makers
Because every editor is a forkable cart and apps are file handlers, the next maker — a tracker, an animator — might be one you build. More crafts are coming, by you.
The AI
Just the on-ramp.
AI is one door in, not the product. When you don't feel like writing the boilerplate, it sketches a first pass and drops it straight into a real editor — then steps back. You open it, rewrite it, fork it, or throw it away. It lowers the floor without ever touching the ceiling, and it never locks you out of your own work.
- It skips the boilerplate. A first pass so you get to the fun part faster.
- It lands in a real editor. Direct-manipulation, not a re-promptable blob.
- You own the code. Open it, hand-edit it, fork it — it's yours.
The Drive
Everything you make becomes material for the next thing.
Apps, sprites, tunes, palettes, whole carts — each one is a real, portable file in your Drive. A palette you mixed flows into a game; a tune drops into a widget. Reopen it, fork it, or download it and take it anywhere. Nothing you make is trapped in a tab.
Want the bigger picture of why it works this way? Read the story behind Tikku, or skim the core concepts in the docs.
Open the box. Take it apart.
Make a little thing, fork the tool that made it, and see what you build next.
Open Tikku