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Ink

Create textual interactive narrative adventure games easily.


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Wotja

Amazing tool to generate ambient music.


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Blurb

Create a book, photobook, ebook etc


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Open Refine

A tool to clean up your messy or disorganised data files.


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Runway

Machine Learning as an "easy to use" online service.


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Processing

Loved by data scientists and artists, this editor lets you code fabulous things


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Orca

"Esoteric" generative music coding tool. Can be a challenge to set up, it works with midi, but is so intriguing to use.


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Sunvox

Make music with visual flow diagram programming. Amazing.


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FireAlpaca

Wonderful image editor


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Cyril

Create audio visualisations with simple coding. Perfect for a VJ because audio-responsive code is built in.


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UVI Workstation

This free desktop app can make some interesting noises, and if you use the arpeggiator (ARP) then you can create almost ambient loops.


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Inkscape

Fabulous vector image editor.


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MediaBangPaintPro

Wonderful image editor

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Krita

Wonderful image editor


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Pure Data

Pure data is a visual programming tool to manipulate audio, images and videos. This is the free alternative to Max/MSP.


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SoundPlant

Amazing tool to "play" a collection of samples whilst manipulating them.


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Audacity

Audio editor with loads of effects.


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Isadora

Visual coding to create amazing visual effects and project mapping projects.


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Pencil 2D

Lovely desktop animation tool with onion skinning.


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Storyboarder

Brilliant storyboard tool. Plan your next movie.


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Electric Zine Maker

Pay your own price for this great downloadable zine-making app. This has to be the winner of THE CRAZIEST APP ever. It's really good fun. 

 


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Livecode

Fabulous tool to create mobile and desktop apps, like Powerpoint but with code.


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OpenRNDR

A bit like Processing, a java-based creative coding enviroment


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DragonBones

Open-source animation tool for Mac and Windows


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Spark AR

A desktop tool with which you can create 3D Augmented Reality apps that do face tracking and other cool AR features. You can create interactive patches using a visual flow language or code in Javascript.


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PraxisLive

Visual creative coding.


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Touch Designer

Visual coding to create amazing visual effects and project mapping projects.

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UltraOutliner

Unusual Russian tool for designing interactive narratives or story plots. You enter characters, and locations and plot points, linking them together.

At the end, you can export as a .csv file. 


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VDMX

VJ mixing tool. Free to use, but $349 to save your work.


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Luna

Visual coding tool. Data-processing language.


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Eyejack

An app with which to make AR (Mac)


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Olive

Video Editor.