Frequently asked questions

Experimental

Today, Mach is rather experimental.

There won’t be one major event where it is suddenly declared stable, rather it will be a bunch of small/incremental releases building up to it. You can look at the roadmap to get an idea of what we’re working on currently, and what will come later.

Can I use Mach to make a simple 2D game?

Quite possibly! Check out Lord of Zero and Pixi for some ideas of what you could do.

Can I use Mach to make a simple 3D game?

It depends on how comfortable you are with low-level graphics APIs.

• You will need to bring your own:
  • 3D model loading and rendering
  • Physics library
  • GUI library

It will be a while before we have good high-level 3D graphics support; a lot of other pieces need to land first. See the roadmap for details.

Can I make my own game engine using Mach?

Yes! For example instead of using GLFW/SDL+OpenGL+glm as the base for your own engine, you might choose to use mach.core and mach.math from our standard library.