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game-maker / suite (push) Successful in 10m4s
Particle age and shader time each read performance.now() off their own library, and the world got the frame's delta straight from the ticker. Three clocks, so a global time scale would have been three multiplications and a pause three separate freezes. core/time.ts holds one clock instead: it accumulates dt x scale per frame rather than reading the wall clock, and Editor.tick hands the very step it took to the play session, the editor run and the animation preview. Delta time, particle age, shader time and that preview are the same quantity now, so the scale is a single multiplication and a pause is that scale at 0 — nothing underneath needs rebasing, because the clock itself stands still. The Math.min(dt, 0.1) caps in PlaySession and EditorRun are gone: the cap (MAX_FRAME) now sits on the raw frame before scaling, and capping twice would make the world run slower than the particles at scale 2. A pause gates the scale rather than overwriting it — effectiveScale() answers 0 while paused, and for anything that is not a positive finite number, while gameClock.scale keeps its value. A slider later survives a pause that way; the issue asks for none yet. The clock goes back to zero at both ends of a run, so a run is reproducible from second 0 and the scene view looks freshly loaded after Stop. Resetting only on Stop would not do it: the editor clock runs on afterwards, and the next Play would start at "seconds since the last Stop". The trap in that: ParticleField keeps its origin as an absolute second of this clock, so after a reset it lies in the future and every particle would age backwards. One line in sync() starts such a field over, which covers the scene, the game and the tab preview at once — and fixes an older bug of the same shape, where releasing a particleTime() freeze left the preview empty for good. Found while measuring that: ParticlePreview stood at second 0.5 by computing the clock reading that would mean 0.5 since the field started. Over 200000 random origins the round trip misses the last bit in 18.8% of them and shows one particle too few in 9.4%, because floor(0.5 * 20) comes out 9. The check had been flaky since it was written. The panel hands the field the age itself now (ParticleField.hold), and the faked clock is gone. 833 checks (824 + 9), 931 unit tests (921 + 10). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 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, collider, container, texture, animation, state machine) 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.
- Play runs a throwaway copy of the project; every panel stays usable and Stop brings back exactly what was saved.
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, 833 checks (GM_STEPS=20 for one step)
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 runner, 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 |
| Scene editing | Placing, z-order, hierarchy, the editor offset |
| Behaviors | Node graphs: variables, the node set, structs and lists, loops, nesting, editing |
| Colliders | Collision events and blocking movement |
| Textures | Images, frames, the filter, upload limits |
| Animations | Animation assets and the Animation tab |
| State machines | The asset, State branch and Set state |
| Containers | Templates, instances, screens |
| 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.