10 FREE Creation Tools To Enhance Your Games

Let’s face it, we can all make our games a little more visually appealing.

Here are a few online tools, that will surely take your TinyTap games to the next level.

 

 

Layout

Including attractive images and cool sounds into your game is a good start but you can also use a more creative page layout to make it look sharp.

Canva

Canva is a free platform that allows you to create a great layout to complement your TinyTap activity with little to no design skills. Just drag-and-drop from a library of more than 1 million stock photos, graphic elements and fonts or upload your own images, and even connect and use your social media photos.

 

As long as you use the free photos and images you can download and use your layout image anywhere. Attribution is not required, just don’t redistribute or sell the images on other stock photo or wallpaper platforms.

 

 

fppt.com

FPPT offers thousands of pre-made free PowerPoint templates and backgrounds that are easy to customize for your educational needs with little effort and a professional look.
Using Microsoft PowerPoint, you can easily make engaging and well designed layouts.

You may need to give attribution to the site, according to the template you choose.

 

 

 

Images

We are all very visual creatures. High quality visuals are necessary to allow our audience to quickly parse and process a cover page or slide. Especially when our target audience doesn’t know how to read yet.

Here are a few resources for high quality and royalty-free images.

Unsplash

Meet Unsplash, simply the best free stock-image database with Over 850,000 high-resolution, beautiful, completely free (do-whatever-you-want) photos brought to you by the world’s most generous community of photographers.

 

Is it really free? Yes.

All photos published on Unsplash can be used for free. You can use them for commercial and noncommercial purposes. You do not need to ask permission from or provide credit to the photographer or Unsplash, although it is appreciated.

 

 

Freepik

The largest platform of free graphic resources
Freepik is a search engine that helps users find high-quality photos, vector images, illustrations and PSD files for their creative projects.

Standard Freepik License is Free for commercial use with attribution to the creator.

 

 

 

Flaticon

Another great feature from the house of freepic is Flaticon, The largest database of free customizable icons in the world, more than a million icons in all formats, single icons and full collection for all kind of projects: presentations, apps, websites, catalogs, infographics etc.

Standard Freepik License is Free for commercial use with attribution to the creator.

 

 

 

Animations

GIFs are awesome.
Plain and simple, they have a unique way of capturing people’s attention.
Using interactive visuals can be a great addition to your game and make it come to life.

Don’t hesitate to use them whenever you see fit to add fun and to give value to your games.

Giphy

GIPHY has one of the largest selections of GIFs and stickers,
with many different categories to choose from.
You can also create GIFs from your own videos or from videos you find online.

Attribution is required when using materials from Giphy.

 

 

 

Sounds

Using sound effects is another great way to add interactivity to your TinyTap game.
A little bird told me that the next TinyTap version will allow creators to upload sound bites,
so you better get ready and start exploring all the cool sound effects out there.

freesound

Although not the prettiest site, It’s simple to search for any sound via the search bar. Browse through Almost 400,000 high quality sound effects, with more added every day.

 

All sounds are absolutely free and account set up is quick and easy.

Sound effects can be listed under 3 different licenses:
1. Zero – free commercial and non-commercial use.
2. Attribution – free commercial use, but attribution is required.
3. Attribution Non-Commercial – free for non-commercial use, attribution required.

 

 

 

Text

There are a lot of good fonts out there, and choosing the right one for your next activity can be a daunting task, even for professional graphic designers.
Good typography reinforces the meaning of the text, a must when instructing a young reader.

Google Fonts

All the fonts in the Google catalog are free and open source, making beautiful type accessible to anyone for any project.
This means you can share favorites and collaborate easily with friends and colleagues. Google Fonts takes care of all the licensing and hosting, ensuring that the latest and greatest version of any font is available to everyone.

Free for commercial use, no attribution needed.

 

 

FlamingText

FlamingText provides free logo design tools, accessible from within a browser.
It provides access to the largest selection of high quality, easily-customizable, professional looking headlines from thousands of awesome designs.
No downloads or installation required.

FlamingText is FREE for personal and academic use!
As a free user you can use all logos, fonts, change text, color, background and more.
No registration is needed, but if you sign up, you can save your logos.

 

 

 

Color

Color psychology plays an important part in the learning environment as it has a real effect on the absorption of information & facilitates the thinking process.
Good color combinations can attract attention and make your TinyTap activities come alive.

Adobe Color

Adobe Color allows you to explore other people’s color schemes, create your own color schemes using the color wheel, or make a scheme from an uploaded image and more.
When you’re happy with the color scheme, simply copy and paste the Hex code into the color settings form in your creation platform (canva, photoshop, ppt).

 

 

 

Now that you’ve got all you need to make amazing looking games,
it’s time to explore all the possibilities and get creative!

Happy Tapping 🙂
Lior and the content team

 

 

 

 

Lior is TinyTap’s in-house content designer. She creates fun educational games that inspire TinyTap’s teachers and creators worldwide.
Feel free to contact her at [email protected] with any questions regarding creation, or just to say hi 🙂