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A Pitch used to keep the length only for the pitch a voice started at. Set sound FX parameters changed it by speed, so a sweep made the sound longer or shorter, and length into time no longer spanned the sound. Now a way with a Pitch is played by an AudioWorklet, a phase vocoder whose pitch is an AudioParam in semitones. The length never changes, and a pitch glides, ramps and eases like a Gain. - PitchPlayer (core/soundfx) is the vocoder as a plain class, so it runs in a unit test. Frames of about 43 ms, four overlapping, a real FFT done as a complex one of half the size. - Peaks are moved with the bins around them (Laroche and Dolson's phase locking), and frames are turned by half their size so a phase is the one at the middle. Without both, a tone beat against itself and dipped to 0.54 of its loudness while the pitch moved. - It reads the sound itself rather than being fed it. It looks ahead as far as a frame reaches, so a voice starts with its first sample and every way of a Mix stays in step. A change of pitch is heard about half a frame (20 ms) late. - At exactly 0 a frame is the sound itself and costs next to nothing. Coming back to 0, the phases are pulled round to the sound's for about half a second before it switches, so the switch does not dip. - pitchWorklet (viewport) is the processor, bundled by Vite through ?worker&url. It is loaded with the first play that has a Pitch, which waits for it like for its bytes. A file's samples are sent with its first voice only and kept in the worklet's scope. - A way has the worklet when its plan has a Pitch, a typed-in 0 excepted (FxChain.shifted). A way without one stays a plain buffer source. Without AudioWorklet a Pitch is not heard, and the console says so. - The pitched copies (WSOLA, pitchShift.ts) and their cache are gone. - Decisions of the user: the player at the source rather than an effect in the chain, a phase vocoder rather than WSOLA, no limit on voices, no range tighter than the node's -64 to +64. - stats() says whether the worklet is there, levels() gives a pitch in semitones, and __gm.sound.pitchWorkletUrl() lets a check run it. Tests: - pitch-player.test.ts (new, replaces pitch-shift.test.ts): 11 tests. Pitches from -30.5 to +12 within 2 %, the length to the sample, 0 exact to 1e-5, a sweep half a frame behind, 8 kHz sounds, loops, ramps there and back without a dip. - sound-library.test.ts: 23 tests (+4), soundfx.test.ts: 31 (+1). - Counter-checks: no worklet in the player, shifted taken from the value, no pull back to 0. 15 tests fail, files restored by cmp. - e2e 34 on melektaus-atx: ALL PASSED, 34 checks (+1). In real Chrome the worklet is there and the pitch param glides to 3.0007. Offline: 880.0 Hz for 440 an octave up, 48000 of 48000 samples, a sweep 0 to -12 at 392 then 248 Hz, still 48000 samples. - Gate on melektaus-atx: 242 test files, 3690 tests, CHECK EXIT 0. - Cost: 53 ms per second of a stereo voice at +5 in Node on stein2, 5 ms at 0. In headless Chrome 16 voices for 2 s took 1.3 s, about 24 fill the audio thread. 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.