Getting started
Install on Mac
Stage Engine for Mac is a disk image you download from flockbay.com and drag into Applications. It is signed and notarised by Apple, so it opens without a security warning.
Installing
- Open flockbay.com and press Download Stage Engine. You do not need an account to download it.
- Open the disk image when it finishes downloading.
- Drag Stage Engine into your Applications folder.
- Open it. Because the app is signed and notarised, macOS lets it through without asking you to override anything.
Why the download is large
Stage Engine ships with its own copy of the Godot engine rather than asking you to install one. That copy is what your game runs on, and it is pinned to an exact version so that a project built today still behaves the same way later.
That is most of the size of the download. It also means the app works the moment it is installed, with nothing else to set up.
Updates
Stage Engine checks for a newer build once, shortly after it opens. If there is one, you are offered it in the app; downloading, verifying and installing all happen there, and the app relaunches itself to finish.
There is no background polling. If you want to check between launches, there is a "Check for updates…" item in the app menu.
The update is a full package rather than a patch, so it is a large download. If it fails, the app says "Update could not download" and offers Try again — nothing in your projects is touched either way.