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Both were asked for in #367 "for later". The node of a Parametric EQ now shows its curve in small, and its tab shows what passes the node while it is seen. #375, the curve in the node: - NodeDef has an optional `picture`: a height, and shapes made from the settings as plain point lists (guide, area, line). It is general, the Parametric EQ is its first user. - NodeView draws it in a box below the rows, again only when the box or the settings change. A drag in the EQ tab changes them, so the node follows it live. - Without a band the box stays, flat on its 0 dB line, so the node does not grow at the first band. - The axes of the curve, `eqCurvePoints` and `fillShapes` move from editor/soundfx/eqView to core/soundfx/parametricEq. Tab and node draw the sum from the same function. #374, the spectrum: - A node marked `tapped` gets a `tap` stage in front of its own stages and one behind them when compiled, in a sound FX and in an instrument alike. Its id is asset and node, since a copied asset keeps its node ids. - A tap is a gain of 1. SpectrumTaps (new, viewport/spectrum.ts) holds the tap of every voice and bus while it plays. - While the EQ tab is seen, in the tab row or in a window, the taps of that node feed one analyser per side (8192 points). Nothing is made before a tap of the node plays, so no AudioContext is opened early. - The tab draws both behind the curve, on a scale of 0 to -96 dBFS: the sound coming in faint and grey, the sound going on in the colour of a sound port. The analyser smooths it, and once the sound has gone the sum still hands it silence, so it falls away. - Once the tab is not seen, Editor.tick lets the analysers go, like the meters of the Song tab. - A tap does nothing to the sound, so `stats().last.stages` leaves it out, and a bypassed EQ keeps its taps. Decided on my own: - Every sound passing the node counts: Play of the sound FX tab, an instrument's keys, a song, a run. The issue proposed that. - The spectrum has no labels of its own. Its scale is in the wiki. Tests: Gate (melektaus-atx) 275 files, 4247 tests (11 new), EXIT 0 e2e 34 (melektaus-atx) ALL PASSED, 98 checks (2 new), twice Counter-checks, each put back by copy and compared with cmp: - The node's curve drawn without its bands: 2 unit tests fail. - The spectrum without the loudest bin between two points: 1 fails. - SpectrumTaps.stop leaving the taps linked: 1 fails. - Taps that never feed the analyser: e2e 34 fails in exactly the spectrum check (frames 0). Run in the container only. The screenshots of the second run were looked at: the blip as one peak behind the curve, and the dip at 4 kHz in the node. 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, 1921 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.