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A shared variable or machine used to live either per object or for the
whole run. Levels need a third lifetime: shared like global, but built
fresh from the declarations whenever a scene is loaded.
- New scope `scene` for Variables assets and state machines. A missing
field keeps the old meaning: `global` for assets, `local` for
machines, so existing projects do not change.
- Returning to a scene that was visited before is fresh as well. There
is no memory per scene.
- A `scene` machine announces its start state again after a scene swap,
so `On state entered` in the new scene hears it. A global machine
stays quiet because it never left its state.
- The rule lives in two pure functions in `sharedState.ts`
(`carriedForward`, `restartedAssets`). BehaviorSystem only calls them.
- The inspector shows a Scope dropdown on Variables assets and a third
step on the machine dropdown, with a note on what `scene` means.
Decisions:
- `scene` and `persistent` exclude each other (variant A). The choice
dialog was cancelled, so this is an assumption to revisit. A
scene-scoped asset hides the Persistent switch, and switching to
`scene` drops the flag (undo restores it). The guard sits in
`isPersistent` itself, so no path can save values the scope throws
away anyway.
Findings:
- `clickText('Scene')` hits the Scene tab, not the menu entry. One e2e
check was red because of that, and its partner was falsely green
because it compared `undefined` with `undefined`. Both use `clickLast`
now.
Tests:
- ./check.sh: 144 files, 2142 tests, CHECK EXIT 0 (before 143 / 2133)
- 9 new unit tests in tests/core/scene-scope.test.ts
- e2e 32 fresh: ALL PASSED, 17 checks
- e2e 1-3,17,18,26,32,35 fresh: ALL PASSED, 213 checks
- 3 new e2e checks (35: scene-scoped asset resets on swap, 32h: dropdown,
note, hidden Persistent switch)
- Counter-checks bite: ignoring `restarted` fails 2 unit tests and the
new check in 35, the old announcement rule fails 1, dropping the scope
guard in `isPersistent` fails 1. Originals restored, cmp IDENTICAL.
- Check sum 1307 (1304 + 3) is computed. Last CI measurement: 1293.
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, 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. 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.
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, 1307 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.