Opinionated asset transformer and aggregator.

When creating computer games, certain assets need to be destructively transformed in order for the game engine to consume them. For example; textures must be packed into texture atlases, and sound files need to be converted to formats digestible by modern browsers. smooch supports transforming directories of assets based on configuration.

In addition, it is much more pleasurable to work in environments with a type system. To this end, smooch supports generating code files from asset files using configurable template programs.

Usage

smooch

Start in watch mode. Aggregates and transforms assets as file changes are detected. Probably should be used while developing!

smooch init

Initialize a smooch.json configuration file.

smooch copy-program <program> <dst>

Copy a default template JavaScript program program to dst. Available programs are

• texture-pack
• json-aggregate
• audio-convert

smooch build

Aggregate and transform assets according to your smooch.json. Probably should be used on a CI server!

smooch init-native-deps

Produce a smooch-native-deps.json configuration file. This is for a bizarre subsystem that sidesteps your package-lock.json. You probably won't need to touch this!

smooch help

List these commands!

Design goals

• Not slow
• Simple installation
• Zero dependencies
• Informative console output
• Watches directories
• Recovers gracefully from IO errors
• Supports configurable templates
• Keeps a cache for faster start-up
• Build tool agnostic
• Config file with schema