Lightweight full-text search engine for GameMaker

A pure GML framework that brings enterprise-grade search capabilities to your GameMaker projects. No external DLLs or extensions.

GMLiteSearch is a complete search solution for GameMaker, designed for small to medium datasets (10k-50k+ documents) with real-time indexing and advanced search features.

• BM25 & TF-IDF scoring – Industry-standard relevance algorithms
• Fuzzy search – Handles typos and misspellings
• Prefix search – Autocomplete suggestions
• Hybrid search – Exact matching with prefix fallback
• N-gram search – Character-level matching for severe typos

• Multi-field filtering – Category, tags, platform, price, etc.
• Aggregation counts – Show how many results per facet value
• Range facets – Numeric and date ranges
• AND/OR operators – Flexible filter logic

• Real-world coordinates – Latitude/longitude with radius and box search
• Game coordinates – 2D, 3D, and grid-optimized for open worlds
• Geohash support – Efficient proximity indexing
• Distance calculation – Haversine for real world, Euclidean for game space

• Trainable relevance – Model learns from user clicks
• 7 built-in features – BM25, term frequency, title match, freshness, popularity, etc.
• Custom features – Register your own feature extractors
• Model persistence – Save/load trained models

• Spell checking – Automatic correction of typos
• Auto-complete – Real-time suggestions as user types
• Related queries – Based on click behavior and term similarity
• Popular queries – Track most searched terms

• Context-aware excerpts – Shows relevant text around matches
• Term highlighting – Customizable markers around matched terms
• Multiple strategies – Best fragment, surrounding, or balanced
• Candidate generation – Multiple snippet options for UI selection

• Score explanation – Understand why a document ranked where it did
• Performance profiling – Measure query execution time
• Index inspection – Health checks and statistics
• Benchmark suite – Automated performance testing

• JSON export/import – Save and load entire search index
• Model persistence – Save trained LTR models
• Quick start/load – Minimal setup for saved indexes

• Item database – Search weapons, armor, potions by name, type, stats
• Quest log – Find quests by keywords, rewards, locations
• NPC dialogue – Search through dialogue trees for keywords
• Location search – Find NPCs, shops, dungeons near player position

• Unit library – Search units by name, class, abilities
• Tech tree – Find technologies by name, prerequisites, era
• Resource management – Filter buildings by type, cost, production

• Inventory search – Find items by name, description, use
• Clue database – Search through collected clues
• Journal entries – Find lore entries by keywords

• Mod support – Search through user-generated content
• Localization – Multi-language string searching
• Asset management – Find sprites, sounds, animations by tags

• Getting Started – First time setup and basic usage
• Full Documentation – Complete API reference and advanced topics

MIT License – Free for commercial and non-commercial use