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The four effects that swing were still drawn as rows of numbers. Like
the Delay, the Saturation and the Limiter, each node now shows a device
of a fixed size. Its screen draws what it does over the first seconds
of a sound, and a light plays that in real time, over and over.
- One device for all four (ModulationPanel, ModulationFace and
modulationView), as KnobPanel is for Gain, Pitch, Mix and Pan. A short
description gives each its title, plate, buttons and knobs.
- Tremolo, 640x280 in cream: a wave its volume shapes, the volume as
its outline. It says DOWN TO 50%, EVERY 200 ms and DIPS -6 dB.
- Vibrato, 640x280 in plum: the pitch in semitones, cool below and warm
above. Under a wet below 1 the dry pitch stands beside it. It says
how late the voice is (LATE 0.93 ms).
- Phaser, 760x280 in mustard, and Flanger, 680x280 in steel blue: the
response from 20 Hz to 20 kHz, and under it a lane of the turn or the
delay over time. The response is drawn where the light is, so the
notches swirl and the comb jets. A comb finer than a column fills it.
- The light loops over 1, 2, 4 or 8 s, two LFO swings at least, for a
Flanger as long as its sweep takes to reach 20 ms. The face only
keeps the editor drawing while something swings and is heard.
- A Rate lamp beside each name goes from dark to lit with the swing.
- Nothing is listened to. The pictures use the worklets' own numbers:
lfoAt, vibratoSpeedUp (now exported from lfo.ts), the allpass chain
with its feedback, and the comb, reckoned at 48 kHz.
- Phaser and Flanger take 4 preset columns. Phased Pad was looked at
in a picture, nothing overlaps.
- Exported from nodes.ts: LFO_SHAPE, lfoShapeOf, TREMOLO_ROWS,
VIBRATO_ROWS, PHASER_STAGE_ROW and phaserStagesOf. FLANGER_MAX_MS is
exported from phaser.ts.
Decided here, as the request left the look open:
- A notch counts where the response falls below -3 dB, not some dB
under the loudest point. Feedback rings peaks far above 0 dB, and the
first rule counted 7 notches on a Phaser of 12 stages.
- Rate and Depth of Tremolo and Vibrato are big knobs, Wet is small.
Tests:
Unit modulation-view (stein2): 22 tests, new. Phaser and Flanger
give the dB of their worklets on a sine within 0.005 dB, the
Tremolo its samples, the Vibrato the pitch it reads at.
Counter-check: with the sign of the Phaser's feedback flipped in one
place, exactly the worklet test fails.
e2e 34 (atx): ALL PASSED, 142 checks, 4 new. Each device has its
size, its ports outside, a light that runs by itself, and a button
and a knob as one undo step each. Picking 8 stages on the Phaser
draws 4 notches.
Gate (atx): CHECK EXIT 0, 291 files, 4467 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, 1974 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.