Tools and Apps to use with hyperPad

[Murtaza]

I'll be updating this list with user suggestions. So if you have a tool or app that you think will work well with hyperPad then post it here. Please include name, description of what it does, price, and platform, and link to download

Graphics:

• Sketch Club (iPad/iPhone) - $2.99: Drawing tool that has a lot of features and supports various art styles. https://itunes.apple.com/app/sketch-club/id404414176?mt=8

• Sprite Something (iPad/iPhone - $4.99: 8 bit drawing app. Has animation tools (onion skinning, frame exporting etc.) https://itunes.apple.com/app/sprite-something/id372515745?mt=8

• Piskel (Web) - FREE: Pixel art drawing tool, completely web based. Works great on computers, has a few quirks on the iPad, but it is still usable. http://www.piskelapp.com/

• Gimp (Mac, PC) - FREE: VERY powerful graphics editor. Similar to professional tools like Photoshop. But it's free! http://www.gimp.org/

• Krita (Mac, PC) - FREE: Awesome digital painting tool. Very powerful, and great for creating art, illustrations, and assets for all types of hyperPad projects. https://krita.org

• Graphic (iPad/iPhone) - $8.99: Full-featured (vector) graphic design and illustration application. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/graphic-illustration-design/id363317633?mt=8

• Graphic (Mac) - $29.99: Desktop version of Graphic for iOS. Powerful vector art an illustration tool. https://graphic.com/

• DragonBones (Mac/PC) - FREE: Open-source, desktop animation software. http://dragonbones.com/en/index.html

• Affnity Designer (Mac) - $39.99: Desktop vector art program. https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/

• Blender (Mac/PC) - FREE Popular 3d modelling and animation software with 2D animation features. https://www.blender.org/

• Bez (iPad) - FREE: iPad Vector art and illustration app. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bez-vector-illustration/id1041554256?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

• Pixely (iPad - $1.99: Pixel art drawing tool https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pixely-pixel-art-for-everyone/id620956869?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Sound & Music:

• Audacity (Mac, PC) - FREE: A multi track audio recording and editing tool. Great for tweaking, or trimming your music or sound effects. http://www.audacityteam.org/

• Deflemask Tracker (Mac, PC) FREE: A music making tool that emulates a large variety of classic soundchips and consoles/computers. It is a bit complex to use so new users will most likely need to follow a lot of tutorials to really understand how to use it. http://deflemask.com

Other:

• iFontMaker (iPad) - $7.99: Font editor that lets you create your own fonts and then convert them into TTF files that you can use on your Mac, PC, or iPad. http://2ttf.com/

[Piratax10]

I know 2 ios pixel art apps and a mac one

Pixel Board (iPad/iPhone) - FREE: Another pixel art drawing tool, its simple for newbies, but dont has many palette sizes for free https://itunes.apple.com/br/app/pixel-board-8-bit-art/id955426436?mt=8

Sprite creator (iPad/iPhone) - $3.99 Again a pixel art drawing tool but a complex one, has lots of colors, sizes, etc https://itunes.apple.com/br/app/sprite-creator/id1078225966?mt=8

PikoPixel (Mac) -FREE A other pixel art drawing tool but, for mac, it has some cool customizations, such size, palette, etc http://twilightedge.com/mac/pikopixel/

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[Murtaza]

Thanks for the suggestions. But for future can you include the extra information?
This way it's easier to keep this list up to date as I don't have to go searching for the apps.

Include Name, price, platform, description, and link to get it. Preferably structured like mine above so I can just copy paste it to the list.

[Jack8680]

Deflemask Tracker (Mac, PC) - FREE: A music making tool that emulates a large variety of classic soundchips and consoles/computers. It is a bit complex to use so new users will most likely need to follow a lot of tutorials to really understand how to use it. http://deflemask.com

I found out about it through SpectralAvesG5S in the comments on backtrack, but I haven't been able to make anything good with it yet since I haven't watched any tutorials.

Also, should we use AppStore previews like this:
Pixel Art Maker by Nekomimimi
https://appsto.re/au/fc3G1.i

[Jack8680]

The previews are only annoying when editing, it keeps minimising the keyboard and reloading the preview, causing me to sometimes press submit when I mean to backspace...

[GameCRAZY]

@Murtaza there's this great pixel tool I know!

Pixely (iPad) - $0.99: absolutely amazing pixel tool. Supports all different shades colors, custom pixel shapes, changeable amounts of pixels, and good exportation.

[GameCRAZY]

@Murtaza

Bez (iPad) - free, update for $9.99: a very powerful Bezier vector graphic editor. Update lets you export - but you can take a screenshot and crop the picture out with a "magic eraser" type app.

[Faileas]

I’ve become a fan of these two:

• Graphic (iPad/iPhone) - $8.99: Full-featured graphic design and illustration application. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/graphic-illustration-design/id363317633?mt=8

• iFontMaker (iPad) - $7.99: Font editor that lets you create your own fonts and then convert them into TTF files that you can use on your Mac, PC, or iPad. http://2ttf.com/

As a side note, this doesn’t seem like quite the right discussion but perhaps we can have a topic generated for other online resources? For example:

• Freesound.org: a collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds.

• Fonts.com: a store with over 150,000 desktop and web font products. Depending on how you plan to use the font, some are available for free. (Embedding the font into an app tends to be pricier than using it in a graphic…)

[Murtaza]

@Faileas

Great suggestions! I forgot about Graphic, added the mac version as well since it's great tool as well.

I'll make anew thread for other resources. Good idea.

[GameCRAZY]

@Murtaza Bex and Pixely should definitely be included in this list. The information is included earlier in this thread.

[Murtaza]

@GameCRAZY
You didn't include any links and I haven't had time to research them. No links means more work for me, which means more time before they can get added.

[GameCRAZY]

Oh, sorry about that! I meant to but I guess I forgot! I'll make sure to include those when I have the chance.

[TutorialDoctor]

Animation:

• AnimationPro(iPad): The BEST animation app on the app store for use with Hyperpad (has png image sequence export). I bought this app simple because it is the only one that has the png export. The free version is called Stick Motion animation. ($10.00)
• DragonBones(Desktop): Open-source, desktop animation software. (FREE)
• Piskel(Desktop): Online/Offline pixel art animation software (FREE)

Vector Art:

• Affnity Designer(Desktop): Adobe Illustrator Killer (current: $39.99 Reg:$49.99 w/ free updates)

2D/3D Animation

• Blender(Desktop): Popular 3d modeling and animation software with 2D animation features. (FREE)

Music

• Free Music Archive(Desktop)

[GameCRAZY]

Here's a link to Bez:
https://appsto.re/us/qTnf-.i

[GameCRAZY]

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[GameCRAZY]

And to Pixely: Pixely: Pixel Art for Everyone by Mark Marchione
https://appsto.re/us/fZWaL.i

[Murtaza]

Game Crazy in the future can you just format your submissions as I did above? Makes it soo much easier :).

Edit: And ideally all in one posts. Keep the thread less cluttered.

[TutorialDoctor]

Check out the current Humble Bundle:
https://www.humblebundle.com/game-developer-software-bundle

[Perpetual Games]

Anyone know a good music software for iPad that's free? Currently I'm using "Medley" But it doesn't come with the variety of instruments I Require. Also please don't say GarageBand it's not the music editor I'd prefer to use :)

[TutorialDoctor]

Nothing can beat GarageBand (yes I said it) especially with the new instruments and the way you can integrate other music apps into it.