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Mach: game engine & graphics toolkit for the future
Mach is a game engine & graphics toolkit written in Zig for the future:
- Data-driven, tooling oriented
- Composable
- Competitive with Unity and Unreal in spirit (a fully fledged editor, etc.)
Cross-platform graphics in ~60 seconds
git clone https://github.com/hexops/mach
cd mach/
zig build run-example-boids
Cross-platform graphics, a unified shader language & compute shaders.
(Requires zig 0.10.x | known issues)
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Contributors are very welcome! There are lots of places you can help out with little knowledge, so feel free to reach out!
Learn more: machengine.org
Supported platforms
Mach is still early stages, so far we have support for building from the following OS to the following targets:
| Building for | From macOS x86_64 | From macOS M1/aarch64 | From Linux x86_64 | From Windows x86_64 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| macOS x86_64 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| macOS M1/aarch64 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Linux x86_64 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Windows x86_64 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| iOS | 🏃 | 🏃 | 🏃 | 🏃 |
| Android | 🏃 | 🏃 | 🏃 | 🏃 |
- ✅ Tested and verified via CI.
- ✔️ Should work, not tested via CI yet.
- 🏃 Planned or in progress.
- ⚠️ Implemented, but has known issues (e.g. bugs in Zig.)
Libraries
Mach has many libraries you can use for game development in Zig - you don't have to use the entire engine. All our libraries aim to have the same zero-fuss installation, cross compilation, and platform support:
- mach-glfw: Ziggified GLFW bindings with 100% API coverage
- mach-gpu-dawn: Google's Dawn WebGPU implementation, cross-compiled with Zig into a single static library
- mach-system-sdk: More libraries for cross-compilation with Zig
Contributing
Mach is maintained as a monorepo. When changed are merged to this repository, we use some git-fu to pick out the commits to subdirectories and push them ot sub-repositories all automagically. Changes to the glfw/ directory in this repository get pushed to the separate mach-glfw repository automagically after being merged here, for example.
Please prefix commits / pull requests with the project name (glfw: fix an issue, gpu: fix an issue, examples: fix an issue, etc.) and if possible only one project per commit. If you don't know how to do this, no worries, we can help!