A project could only be played inside the editor, behind the login.
To show a game to someone else there was no way short of an account.
A release freezes the saved project under a random token and serves
it on a page that holds nothing but the game view.
- Menu -> Release... opens a dialog with the state of the release,
the link with Copy link and Open, Publish or Update release, and
Take down behind a confirmation.
- Publish saves first and refuses while anything is unsaved, like
snapshots. Updating keeps the link. Take down kills it, and a new
Publish hands out a new token.
- The link is play.html?game=<32 hex>. The page needs no session,
paints Theme.colors.background, zooms with Auto and waits for
"Click to play" so that sound and keyboard focus are allowed.
- The game always starts in the start scene. Persistent variables
are stored per link in the browser. Plugins are not loaded, and the
dialog warns about them and about a project without a scene.
- GET ?r=releases/{token} is the only route besides auth/* that works
without a login. The public answer carries the token as project.id,
so the project id stays hidden. Release files are written with 0640
and nginx does not serve them directly (measured 403).
- Starting, the frame and Load scene moved into runtime/GameRun.ts.
Play in the editor and the play page run through the same code.
- WorldViewport moved to src/viewport/ and no longer needs the
EditorState. Pointer forwarding (gamePointer.ts) and setting up
textures, fonts and sounds (projectFiles.ts) exist only once.
- Vite builds two pages. The play page loads 4 kB of its own code
plus the shared chunk (Pixi, runtime, drawing, 653 kB) and Rapier,
without the editor.
Found on the way, not fixed here: data/projects/<id>.json answers 200
without a login because the files are 0644.
Tests:
- ./check.sh: 194 files, 2808 tests, exit 0.
- tests/php/releases.test.php: 20 checks, also added to CI.
- New e2e module 60 with 10 checks, played in a browser without a
session. Module 46 counts the menu entries and was updated.
- Full e2e run: 1572 checks passed.
- Counter-checks: 3 unit, 2 PHP and 3 browser mutations all fail.
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A texture was fetched only when it was drawn for the first time. Until
the file arrived, the tilemap skipped the cell for that frame. An
animated tile whose next step sat in another picture therefore blinked
away once on its first cycle, and sprite animations did the same.
- FileLibrary gets preload(files). It requests every file that is not
held, loading or known to have failed. Each library reports what it
holds through holds().
- src/core/model/projectFiles.ts lists the files a project names per
library: uploaded textures, fonts and pixel art cels.
- App.ts runs the preload on every project event. That covers opening
a project, new assets and edits from a collaborator.
- A new test hook __gm.heldPictures() reports which textures of the
project are in memory.
Not done on purpose:
- The tilemap keeps no fallback frame while a step is still loading.
- Sounds still load on first play.
Not checked: the flicker itself was not reproduced in the browser, the
e2e check measures "held in memory". Modules 42, 44 and 47 read
textures from the project and were not run locally.
Tests:
- ./check.sh: 174 files, 2518 tests, CHECK EXIT 0
- e2e 39 + 40: ALL PASSED, 96 checks
- 3 new unit tests for preload and the project file list
- New e2e check 40k-ii: an unplaced picture is held after a reload
- Counter-probe: without the preload 40k-ii fails with
"Autotiles: held false, unworn: held false"
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debugHook.ts had grown to 1097 lines of unrelated test hooks. They
now live in seven files under src/editor/debug/, grouped by topic.
debugHook.ts only assembles them and is down to 86 lines.
- The shape of window.__gm is unchanged for tools/. Measured in the
browser before and after: 120 top-level keys and 313 leaves with
their arity, byte-identical JSON.
- The Text import is explicit in the helpers. Without it the name
fell back to the DOM type and instanceof would never have matched.
Findings:
- The comment for vectorArt sat above pixelArt. It is back in place.
- An orphaned duplicate comment on assetRow is gone.
Tests:
- ./check.sh: 145 files, 2192 tests, CHECK EXIT 0 (unchanged)
- e2e 1-16,37,39-43,47,48: ALL PASSED, 734 checks
- The shape probe turns red against a deliberately misnested hook.
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