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A Limiter only said what it does in rows of numbers. How much it took away, and when, could not be seen at all, and a short sound is over before any needle could show it. Now the node is a device of its own size, and its screen catches the reduction from the moment a sound starts and holds it once the sound ends. - LimiterPanel draws a 720x280 plate of brushed brick. The threshold knob is large, ceiling and release are small beside it, auto-gain is a lever. A LIMIT lamp lights while it takes something away. - The screen hangs the reduction down from the top, 0 to 24 dB by the square root like the Compressor's meter. The level coming in runs along the bottom, orange above the limit. Time runs from the start of the sound over 1, 2, 4 or 8 s, and a longer sound rolls. - ReductionCapture in limiterView holds the capture after 0.4 s of silence, without the silence, until the next sound. It writes the most taken away and when, and NOW or LASTED on the right. - The Limiter is tapped now, like the Compressor. The face reads the loudest sample since the last frame on both sides. - SpectrumTaps.levels takes a lateBy. The side in front is read 5 ms earlier, so a peak going in is met by what it became. - limiterReduction leaves the auto-gain out and solves Wet's blend for the limited part. Less than 0.2 dB counts as none. - A capture is also held when the node leaves the picture. Changing a knob or the lever leaves it as it is. - Hook __gm.limiter.panel(id) for the sound FX and instrument graphs. Decided myself: - The capture stays held until the next sound, not for a fixed time. - The screen has no wet knob, as the Compressor's has none. - The Limiter's two taps cost two gains of 1 per voice. The analysers only exist while the node is in the picture. Measured on stein2: the seeded blip at -4.4 dBFS against -12 dB showed 7.56 dB. Three hits at 0, -8 and -2 dBFS showed 11.9 dB at the first. In e2e 34 on melektaus-atx, -10.44 dBFS in against -20 dB showed 9.56 dB, the difference to the hundredth. Tests: - Unit: limiter-view 13 tests (new), spectrum 6 (1 new), soundfx 67 with the Limiter's taps. - Counter-test: without Wet's share in the formula the blend test fails. - e2e 34: ALL PASSED, 138 checks (1 new). - Gate: CHECK EXIT 0, 290 files, 4445 tests. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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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, sound FX, instrument, pattern, song, bus, 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, 1970 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 clips, Play sound, buses and the Master routing, sound FX |
| Instruments | Instruments as node graphs, Chips and presets, the keys of the Instrument tab, Play note |
| Patterns | Patterns and the piano roll, playing one in a loop or from a game |
| Songs | Songs, their tracks and items, routing, recording, playing one from a game |
| 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.