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sfxr's "phaser" is a comb filter, the sound plus a copy delayed by up to 2.9 ms. That is a flanger, not the phaser a guitarist knows. Both effects come in as nodes of their own, so each name fits its sound and sfxr is covered in full. Both run on the FX worklet like the Bitcrusher, because a feedback loop in Web Audio costs a render quantum per round. - Phaser: first-order allpasses (Stages 2, 4, 6, 8, 12) around Frequency, moved by a sine LFO Depth octaves wide at Rate Hz, with Feedback and Mix. An Envelope can move Frequency and Mix. - Flanger: a delay line of Offset ms. Sweep moves it on in ms/s from the start of the voice, an LFO adds up to Depth ms. As in sfxr the delay is mirrored at 0, and it never goes past 20 ms. Feedback comes back exactly one delay later. An Envelope can move Offset and Mix. - Mix 0 leaves the sound as it is, 1 is half sound and half copy. The notches are deepest there and the peaks stay at the sound's level. sfxr adds both at full, so its sound comes out 6 dB louder. - The Flanger's processor gets the start of its voice and begins the sweep on that sample. stageNodes takes it as a new argument `at`. - Explosion gets a Flanger in one draw out of two, with sfxr's offset and sweep and no LFO. Offset is offset^2 * 2.89 ms, Sweep is ramp^2 * 125 ms/s, signed so the direction holds. - Randomize draws a Flanger's offset and sweep like sfxr. Its LFO and feedback and all of a Phaser are drawn within bounds of their own. Mix and Stages stay, as a Bitcrusher's Mix does. Mutate moves them too, and a 0 stays 0. - New instrument preset Phased Pad: saw, Envelope, low-pass, Phaser of six stages. The other 14 are unchanged. - The Bitcrusher's worklet setup is now shared with both nodes (workletNodes), its behaviour is unchanged. Tests: - Unit phaser (new): 8 green. Counter-check with clamping at 0 instead of mirroring and a flipped allpass coefficient: 3 red. - Unit soundfx, sound-library, chip-presets: 45 / 76 / 14 green. Counter-checks: start time not passed on, phaser frequency eased linearly, sweep sign dropped, Phaser left out of Mutate, each red. - Unit core, viewport, graph: 179 files, 2979 tests green. - e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 70 checks (1 new), first run. Chrome offline: 1 kHz notch RMS 0.0000 with two stages, 0.5657 with four. Flanger echo after 48 samples, swept echo at 533/534. About 47 Phasers (12 stages) or 63 Flangers fill the audio thread. - Gate (melektaus-atx): CHECK EXIT 0, 257 files, 3991 tests. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Game Maker
A browser-based tool "one step before a game engine": create assets (scenes, cameras, sprites), place them into scenes, tweak their properties in an inspector and press Play – all in one program, all drawn inside a single WebGL canvas.
Live: https://nockal.com/game-maker/ · Widget playground: https://nockal.com/game-maker/?playground
The documentation is the wiki: https://git.nockal.com/meleki/game-maker/wiki – every concept, node, tab and shortcut, plus the architecture and the development workflow. This file is the short way in.
In one screen
- An asset is a named, typed thing (scene, camera, sprite, text, behavior, variables, struct, collider, rigidbody, joint, container, clip area, texture, vector art, pixel art, palette, animation, curve, tile, tilemap, state machine, shader, shader function, font, sound, particles) with properties and no position.
- A scene object places an asset: position, sparse overrides of its properties, an optional parent. Only what differs from the asset is stored; the inspector paints it gold and offers ↺ / ↑.
- A container is a reusable group edited once and placed many times; its content is resolved from the template on every read. A screen is a container switched on and off.
- A behavior is logic as a node graph, placed like anything else and parented to the object it acts on. Play has no built-in behaviour – everything that happens is a graph.
- An account owns projects: the editor asks for a user name and a password first, and each account sees only its own projects. The Account menu at the far right of the toolbar changes the password and signs out.
- Play runs a throwaway copy of the project; every panel stays usable and Stop brings back exactly what was saved. Release… shares a link that plays the saved game on its own, without the editor and without signing in.
Quick start
Node 22 is required.
npm install
npm run dev # http://localhost:5175/game-maker/dist/ – API calls are proxied to production
npm run check # typecheck + lint + format:check + unit tests – the gate CI runs too
npm run build # writes dist/ and regenerates index.html; the folder is what nginx serves
The browser suite and the three example games need a machine with a GPU:
node tools/seed-e2e.mjs && node tools/e2e.mjs # the editor, 1744 checks (GM_STEPS=20 for one step)
# every tool signs in first – see the Accounts page
node tools/seed-jumprun.mjs && node tools/smoke-jumprun.mjs
node tools/seed-tetris.mjs && node tools/smoke-tetris.mjs
node tools/seed-actor.mjs && node tools/smoke-actor.mjs
Every push runs all of it on the Gitea runners – the gate as one job, build and suite as another beside it – so locally take the gate plus the step your change touches and leave the full run to CI. Details, the GPU requirement and the detached runner are in Development.
Documentation
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Concepts | Assets, scene objects, overrides, play mode, the camera, the console |
| Accounts | Signing in and out, the accounts, who a project belongs to, what the check tools need |
| Scenes | The edited scene, the start scene, and switching scenes from a graph |
| Scene editing | Placing, z-order, hierarchy, the editor offset |
| Behaviors | Node graphs: variables, the node set, structs and lists, loops, nesting, editing |
| Structs | Struct assets: a named shape that struct variables, fields and Pack/Expand follow |
| Colliders | Shapes (box, circle, capsule, polygon), collision events, blocking movement, one-way colliders and raycasts |
| Physics | Rigidbodies, the collider material, gravity, the fixed step, joints |
| Textures | Images, frames, nine-slice, the filter, upload limits |
| Vector art | Pictures drawn from shapes: the pen, curves, gradients and texture fills, combining shapes |
| Pixel art | Pictures painted pixel by pixel: the palette, the tools, layers and frames |
| Fonts | Font assets, the picker, what a text falls back to |
| Sounds | Sound assets and Play sound |
| Animations | Animation assets and the Animation tab |
| Curves | Easings drawn by hand, the Curve tab, using one on a key or a Lerp |
| Shaders | Shader graphs that sprites, texts, particle fields and cameras wear, their node set, passes, shader functions |
| Particles | Particle graphs: a particle as a function of its age |
| State machines | The asset, named transitions, State branch, Set state and State transition |
| Containers | Templates, instances, screens |
| Tiles | The tile asset, plain tiles and the two autotile kinds, the pictures as animation steps, the Tile tab |
| Tilemaps | The tilemap asset, painting in the scene view, layers, what it looks like in the game |
| Plugins | Extending the editor: the plugin file, how it is loaded, switching one on and off, API v1 |
| Keyboard | Every shortcut |
| Architecture | Stack, source layout, the rules that keep it organised |
| Development | Commands, the e2e suite, the example games, CI |
| API | The PHP JSON API and the project document |
Ideas, gaps and bugs
They live in the issue tracker: https://git.nockal.com/meleki/game-maker/issues. What is not there yet is listed on the wiki's Home page.