Create Custom Tools And Applications
The Machinery can be used in many ways. Extend our editor. Create your own tools or applications on top of our APIs. Embed it into your existing software.
Real-Time Collaborative Editing
Advanced editing features. Work together real-time in the same project. Flexible hierarchical prefab system.
Control In Your Hands
Made to be hacked. Minimalistic code base. 100% written in plain C. Source code licenses available
Lightweight
Written in plain C. Boots instantly. Responsive UI. Recompiles in seconds. Supports hot reloading everywhere.
Hackable
Made to be hacked. Extend or modify with plugins. The flexibility of a custom engine with the convenience of a ready-made one.
Modern
Maximum performance. Fiber-based job system. Modern rendering architecture.
The Machinery is a collection of collaborating plugins.
Plugin-Based
In The Machinery, everything is a plugin.
You can extend, modify or replace existing engine functionality with your own plugins.
And you can do this while the editor or the game is running, since the plugin system supports
hot-reloading.
Image courtesy of Karll Henning.
The Creation Graph
Our graph-based import workflow gives you detailed control over how models are imported and rigged in the engine, letting you do advanced things such as generating procedural geometry or piping image channels to specific GPU compute jobs.
Learn More about Creation Graphs »
Object properties with support for inheritance and overrides.
Centralized Data Model
In The Machinery, all data is stored in a centralized data model called The Truth. This way, even your custom game automatically gets support for things like serialization, undo, prototypes, merging, property editors and copy/paste.
Learn More about The Truth »
Real-time collaboration.
Live Collabration
Unlike any other engine, The Machinery supports real-time collaborative game editing. Multiple people can work together in the same game project and see each other’s changes instantly, just like in a Google Doc.
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