Intro to 2D Gamedev with Mach Engine -

Hello everyone! Hope your travels are going well, we're just a few days away from the Mach workshop! 🙂 Location: UNAHOTELS Scandinavia Milano (https://maps.app.goo.gl/efofN3Po91jSbvCYA), registration opens at 09:00 https://sycl.it/agenda/ Some items you may want to bring: 1. Your laptop and power adapter; remember that we'll be running your GPU and compiling code for 3-6 hours on this day, so battery life might not last you the whole time. 🙂 2. A pair of headphones (optional) - there will be ~15 people all playing chaotic sound effects on their laptops, so a pair of headphones can let you unveil your chaos when you choose. I'll have few extra earbuds and imperial->metric power adapters available in case anyone needs them. Confirming your hardware works with Mach (can be done at the workshop or before) 1. If you run macOS, guaranteed to work. If you run Windows, great chances you are fine as well. 2. If you run Linux or want to check ahead of time, feel free to install the right Zig version (https://machengine.org/about/zig-version/) and run the hardware check zig build run-hardware-check. 3. If you run a stranger linux distribution like nixOS and plan to use that during the workshop, you can familiarize yourself with https://machengine.org/about/nixos-usage/ and mach-flake (which I hear is pretty great) We'll have time at the start to help folks get setup on their machines, so if you can't get to it before the workshop no worries. If someone's hardware does not work with Mach for some reason, I may ask you to pair up a bit with someone else and have two people treat the experience as a bit of a gamejam 🙂 this will be a very free-form workshop. Keep tabs on this thread - if you have questions feel free to ask them here, we will use this thread for discussion and to share links during the workshop. Most importantly, please come excited to experiment and learn! This is going to be a really free-form workshop ( 😅 ) and very interactive, so be prepared to ask a lot of questions - we have a very wide audience attending with quite different backgrounds, so what we go over and cover is going to be adjusted heavily based on everyone's comfort level. Additionally, we'll be using some pretty experimental Mach APIs and functionality - so there's gonna be some 'we'll do it live!' energy here. I expect it to be a bit bumpy, but a ton of fon 🙂 LETS GOOO!