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Two things came up on the new tab. Floated and sized down, it spilled its knobs out of its window, and sized up it left the window empty. Auto-gain lifted far too much: it brought 0 dB back to 0 dB, which at -40 dB, 4:1 and knee 6 is +28.1 dB, so a sound at -24 dB came out at -6 dB. And as a knob from 0 to 1 it blended between makeup and auto-gain, so at 1 the makeup knob did nothing. Layout: - The knobs stay on the bottom line, centred, with the help line above them. - The levels fill the height left above. The curve is a square at their right, centred up and down. It grows with the tab from 180 to 360 px and takes no more than 40 % of its width (picturesLayout). - A floated window cannot be sized below what its pane needs. A pane says so in its minWidth and minHeight, and the Compressor's is every knob and the smallest pictures. Other panes keep 320 x 200. - A pane put into an open window that is too small grows the window. Auto-gain, as decided in #378: - A Compressor's auto-gain gives back what it takes from a sound at -18 dB, so that one comes out as loud as it went in. At the numbers above that is +14.6 dB. - Auto-gain is a switch on the Compressor, the Limiter and the Saturation alike, a setting and no longer an input. The makeup or output is added on top of it instead of being blended with it. - A project from before reads a number as on above 0. Nodes never set keep their defaults: off on the Compressor, on on the other two. - The tab shows the switch at the right of the knobs, with the dB it gives below it. With it on, the curve has a line at -18 dB from the curve up to the diagonal. - Every level reading keeps the gain of its time. Before, the whole picture was read by the current makeup, so after a change the tinting of the last seconds was wrong or missing. Findings: - My first e2e run of the layout clicked Dock where it was before the window was sized up, so the window stayed open and the next check went red. The check reads the button again. Tests: - Gate (melektaus-atx): 282 files, 4344 tests (6 new) - e2e 34 (melektaus-atx): ALL PASSED, 118 checks (2 new) - Offline in Chrome: a sine at -18 dB through -24 dB and 4:1 came out at -17.92 dB with auto-gain on and -22.42 dB with it off. - Counter-checks: the curve set at the top instead of the middle, and every reading read at a gain of 0, each fail exactly their test. - Looked at the window in screenshots: at its least every knob and the switch show. At 1280 x 797 the levels fill the height, the curve is centred at the right and the knobs are at the bottom. 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, 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, 1949 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.