THE IDEA SHELF / OPEN STARTING POINTS

Something worth making.

Fifty small project directions to help you get unstuck. Pick one, reshape it, or use it as a starting point for something better.

3 IDEAS13 TOPIC AREASSTART SMALL. ITERATE.
A PLACE TO BEGIN

Creative coding

3 FOUND
01 / IDEACreative coding

Open Data Story Builder

Turn a small public dataset into a guided, annotated visual story.

THE PROBLEM

Public data is available but often hard for non-specialists to interpret.

FIRST SMALL STEP

Import one CSV and let authors combine chart blocks with explanatory text.

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02 / IDEACreative coding

Pixel Palette Swapper

Preview and export alternate palettes for sprite sheets without changing transparency.

THE PROBLEM

Artists manually recolor sprite variants and can accidentally alter outlines.

FIRST SMALL STEP

Load a PNG and map source colors to a replacement palette.

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Shader Parameter Playground

Expose shader uniforms as sliders and export a reproducible preset.

THE PROBLEM

Shader experiments are hard to share when the values that created an effect are undocumented.

FIRST SMALL STEP

Load one fragment shader and generate controls for a small set of uniforms.

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