Tiny Tools

Source	http://everest-pipkin.com/teaching/tools.html
Context	List of resources and tools

Open source, experimental, and tiny tools roundup

This is a list of tools and software, good to discover random and experimental projects, such as a Cliché Finder for text or a tool to help you name projects. Some alternative ways of writing and collaboration can produce unexpected results and motivate group-writing sessions.

"I’m currently teaching a games class oriented around alternative tools. We have been talking at length about moving outside of walled gardens and closed ecosystems, the politics and aesthetics that tools carry with them, the edges of “tool” and where it intersects with “game” or “playful media” and how much a tool can say about its maker.

As a part of the class, we’ve been practicing stringing together smaller solutions and toolkits to create chains of production that lets us make games and game-like things entirely outside of standard engines. This list began as a casual resource for that classroom and grew to be a resource of scope."