Browser-based tools link dump.
There are so many rad browser-based tools, but I rarely find time to do more with them than play about for a bit and file them away in my bookmarks. Gunna start dropping links and notes in here. Feel free to join in.
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https://suricrasia.online/opus-databending-drumkit/
Simple but nice sounding drum machine based on opus glitches (!). Can do four bar patterns. Can save/import/export with text strings.
Examples in this thread: https://cybre.space/@SuricrasiaOnline/106633181764596703
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I've been hypnotising myself with this one, from the same person who made môsi.
Beepster: https://zenzoa.itch.io/beepster
Examples:
Bitsy-inspired? platformer maker:
https://the-l0bster.itch.io/pocket-platformer
https://css-paint.constraint.systems/
Playing with this one again, so
https://roguemiskin.itch.io/spacetoform
(seems to be gone)
Drawing tool by Nathalie Lawhead. You can draw with different character sets.
ASCII Paint http://ascii.alienmelon.com/
At first I though it was being clever and using the right characters to create smooth curves, but it's just random.
Browser-based tracker, can save as MOD, WAV and MP3, has a sample editor... Has a fun feature where it can load a random song from Mod Archive.
https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/
Music tool. You place taps in the area at the top, place shapes in the area below, and as the drops of water hit the shapes they make sounds. Can change scale, intruments, effects…
Drip 2.0 https://finneganeganegan.itch.io/drip-2
Via: https://ludosphere.fr/@Itooh/110210476036311346
(Sequel to https://finneganeganegan.itch.io/drip)
C64-like SAM speech
https://discordier.github.io/sam/
You can make sound effects with it if you do stings of letters separated buy spaces like 'u u u u u u u'. Fun to just randomly type into it too.
Saw this tile-based drawing doodad in the 2023 queer games bundle
https://ash-k.itch.io/tile-toy
A lot richer than it may first seem. There's motion, the flipping options create a lot of variation, and you can doodle away while it's animation.
Very sfxr-y sounds, terrible drums, but fun music making toy that's easy to play live too. Like you can right-click sound to play them along with the sequenced sounds, and turn channels off and on. Easy enough to share songs with screenshots.
https://perfect-c-games.itch.io/music-maker-95
From the Synth Jam event: https://itch.io/jam/synth-jam/entries
Seems like there a bunch of these give me a bunch of random unicode characters tools online that I just found useful:
Also in similarly ubiquitous tool news I keep finding this colour picker useful: