adminandClaude Opus 5 c830c7a3aa
game-maker / gate (push) Successful in 2m4s
game-maker / suite (push) Successful in 7m18s
Changing the password: the Logout button at the far right of the toolbar became an Account menu that names the signed-in account in an entry of its own that cannot be picked, with Change password... above Logout, and the new dialog (src/editor/auth/PasswordDialog.ts) asks for the current password, the new one and its repetition, all three as bullets, and stays standing when the server refuses so that it can say why, unlike the other form dialogs; the rules for empty, too short, new equal to old and a differing repetition sit as the pure function passwordProblem() next to loginProblem(), the API gained POST ?r=auth/password which answers 204, insists on the current password although a session is there, enforces a minimum length of 8 in UserStore::MIN_PASSWORD_LENGTH and again in the client so the mask can answer without asking the server, and the new SessionStore::destroyAllFor($user, $keep) ends every other session of the account while the tab that changed the password keeps its own; the placeholders admin/admin and user/user stay as they are, which the length check does not touch because it only runs when a password is set through the API; e2e 45 grew by 8 checks for the menu, the dialog, both refusals and signing in with the old and the new password, and it sets the e2e account back at the end - a run dying in between leaves it on <password>-tmp, which a make-user.php call repairs (#182)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-20 13:46:40 +02:00
2026-09-13 10:35:16 +02:00

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, collider, rigidbody, container, texture, font, sound, animation, state machine, shader, particles, variables, tile, tilemap) 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. Logout sits at the far right of the toolbar.
  • Play runs a throwaway copy of the project; every panel stays usable and Stop brings back exactly what was saved.

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, 1126 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 runner – 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
Colliders Shapes (box, circle, capsule, polygon), collision events, blocking movement, one-way colliders and raycasts
Physics Rigidbodies, the collider material, gravity, the fixed step
Textures Images, frames, nine-slice, the filter, upload limits
Fonts Font assets, the picker, what a text falls back to
Sounds Sound assets and Play sound
Animations Animation assets and the Animation tab
Shaders Shader graphs a sprite wears, their node set, the properties they declare
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.

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Browser game maker: Pixi v8 canvas editor with visual behavior graphs, PHP API
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