Build a Creative Coding Project
8 weeks · 3 milestones
Build an interactive or generative creative project — art, music visualizer, or game — using code.
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Define what the creative coding tool does and for whom, and build the core interaction that makes it useful. A creative coding tool is a piece of software — not necessarily a polished product — that enables a specific kind of creative expression that would otherwise be significantly harder or impossible without it. The core interaction is the one thing the tool does that no other freely available tool does in the same way. This can be a generative art tool, an interactive audio visualiser, a procedural pattern generator, a typeface tester, a constraint-based writing tool, or any other software where the code is itself creative and the tool enables creativity.
Proof required
Share a publicly accessible URL where the tool can be used (a web app, a GitHub Pages deploy, a CodePen, or a downloadable binary with instructions). State in 2 sentences what the tool does and who would use it. Demonstrate the core interaction by sharing a screenshot or GIF of the tool in use.
What gets checked
- Tool accessible at the shared URL — a verifier can open and use it without instructions.
- Purpose stated in 2 sentences — not 'a tool for creative things' but a specific use case and user.
- Core interaction demonstrated via screenshot or GIF.