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Fragment-side coordinate nodes instead of vertex nodes: the quad stays the quad, a UV read plus a sample at a computed coordinate covers flip, scroll, wave, pixelate and scanlines. Time is a uniform only when a Time node reaches the Output; a viewport that drew a Time shader redraws from the ticker so the Scene tab animates without a running world. Edge (Mirror/Repeat/Clamp) is a second texture variant in TextureLibrary because WebGL binds no TextureStyle resource of the shader. The compiler now emits #version 300 es first: Pixi only compiles as ES 3.00 when the fragment says so, and textureSize needs it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Game Maker
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A browser-based tool "one step before a game engine": create **assets** (scenes, cameras,
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sprites), place them into scenes, tweak their properties in an inspector and press **Play** –
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all in one program, all drawn inside a single WebGL canvas.
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Live: <https://nockal.com/game-maker/> · Widget playground: <https://nockal.com/game-maker/?playground>
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**The documentation is the wiki:** <https://git.nockal.com/meleki/game-maker/wiki> – every concept,
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node, tab and shortcut, plus the architecture and the development workflow. This file is the short
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way in.
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## In one screen
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- An **asset** is a named, typed thing (scene, camera, sprite, text, behavior, collider, container,
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texture, animation, state machine) with properties and no position.
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- A **scene object** places an asset: position, sparse **overrides** of its properties, an optional
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parent. Only what differs from the asset is stored; the inspector paints it gold and offers ↺ / ↑.
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- A **container** is a reusable group edited once and placed many times; its content is resolved
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from the template on every read. A **screen** is a container switched on and off.
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- A **behavior** is logic as a node graph, placed like anything else and parented to the object it
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acts on. Play has no built-in behaviour – everything that happens is a graph.
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- **Play** runs a throwaway copy of the project; every panel stays usable and Stop brings back
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exactly what was saved.
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## Quick start
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Node 22 is required.
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```bash
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npm install
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npm run dev # http://localhost:5175/game-maker/dist/ – API calls are proxied to production
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npm run check # typecheck + lint + format:check + unit tests – the gate CI runs too
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npm run build # writes dist/ and regenerates index.html; the folder is what nginx serves
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```
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The browser suite and the three example games need a machine with a GPU:
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```bash
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node tools/seed-e2e.mjs && node tools/e2e.mjs # the editor, 742 checks (GM_STEPS=20 for one step)
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node tools/seed-jumprun.mjs && node tools/smoke-jumprun.mjs
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node tools/seed-tetris.mjs && node tools/smoke-tetris.mjs
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node tools/seed-actor.mjs && node tools/smoke-actor.mjs
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```
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Every push runs all of it on the Gitea runner, so locally take the gate plus the step your change
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touches and leave the full run to CI. Details, the GPU requirement and the detached runner are in
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[Development](https://git.nockal.com/meleki/game-maker/wiki/Development).
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## Documentation
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| Page | What it covers |
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| [Concepts](https://git.nockal.com/meleki/game-maker/wiki/Concepts) | Assets, scene objects, overrides, play mode, the camera, the console |
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| [Scene editing](https://git.nockal.com/meleki/game-maker/wiki/Scene-editing) | Placing, z-order, hierarchy, the editor offset |
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| [Behaviors](https://git.nockal.com/meleki/game-maker/wiki/Behaviors) | Node graphs: variables, the node set, structs and lists, loops, nesting, editing |
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| [Colliders](https://git.nockal.com/meleki/game-maker/wiki/Colliders) | Collision events and blocking movement |
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| [Textures](https://git.nockal.com/meleki/game-maker/wiki/Textures) | Images, frames, the filter, upload limits |
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| [Animations](https://git.nockal.com/meleki/game-maker/wiki/Animations) | Animation assets and the Animation tab |
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| [State machines](https://git.nockal.com/meleki/game-maker/wiki/State-machines) | The asset, `State branch` and `Set state` |
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| [Containers](https://git.nockal.com/meleki/game-maker/wiki/Containers) | Templates, instances, screens |
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| [Keyboard](https://git.nockal.com/meleki/game-maker/wiki/Keyboard) | Every shortcut |
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| [Architecture](https://git.nockal.com/meleki/game-maker/wiki/Architecture) | Stack, source layout, the rules that keep it organised |
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| [Development](https://git.nockal.com/meleki/game-maker/wiki/Development) | Commands, the e2e suite, the example games, CI |
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| [API](https://git.nockal.com/meleki/game-maker/wiki/API) | The PHP JSON API and the project document |
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## Ideas, gaps and bugs
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They live in the issue tracker: <https://git.nockal.com/meleki/game-maker/issues>. What is not
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there yet is listed on the wiki's [Home](https://git.nockal.com/meleki/game-maker/wiki) page.
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