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A song that had been played a few times in a long session stuttered at regular intervals until the page was reloaded. A quick run up the keys of a sampled instrument made every sound drop out for a second or two. Both came from work the audio thread should not have had. - Every worklet node of a voice listened on its port. Chrome never collects a port that is listened to, and through its listener not the voice either. Every node of the voice stayed on its bus and was worked on in every block. A way or stage on the worklet now closes its port once it ends or is stopped, and the processor closes its own side when it is told to stop. - A voice without echoes now leaves its bus as soon as its sound and what its stages hold back are through. Before, only a voice with echoes did. - At most 12 ways play through the pitch worklet at once. One more cuts the oldest in 10 ms, a note already let go before one still held. Each runs a phase vocoder, whose first block alone took 2.7 ms of the 2.67 ms a block has on stein2. - Play for the game ends everything the tabs play: the piece holding the transport and every key or preview (`stopPreviews`). - Closing a Sound, Sound FX, Instrument, Pattern or Song tab stops what it plays of that asset (`AssetTabEditor.closed`). - A preset in the Instrument tab plays nothing any more. With Audition on it is heard like any other change. - Test hooks: `__gm.instrument.play`, `__gm.sound.playing`, and `vocoders` in the stats of the sound library. Measured: - A copy of the project, its Song 2 played for 12 s and stopped, six times (Chrome on stein2, CDP WebAudio): before, 746 nodes were left after the first time and 4469 after the sixth, the load at rest grew from 0.01 to 0.06. After, 7 nodes are left every time (the master and one bus) and the load at rest stays at 0.01 to 0.02. - Pitch-player voices live in Chrome on melektaus-atx: 12 take 0.50 of the audio thread, 16 take 0.71, 24 take 0.99. 30 struck 40 ms apart held it at 0.99 from the first second on. Tests: - Unit sound-library: 110 green (3 new), 4 counter-probes each red - e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 86 checks (3 new, 2 changed) - e2e counter-probe with game start and preset undone: their 3 checks red, and the old check of Play note in the game as well, which now counts on the preview being gone - e2e counter-probe with tab close undone: exactly its check red. A first form of it held a key and stayed green, since the keys let go of a held key by themselves once the tab shows no asset - Gate (melektaus-atx): 270 files, 4181 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.