Have a passion to develop a Mobile Game? Here, we’ll discuss some aspect of the trending mobile gaming frameworks and libraries.
Unity
Unity is undoubtedly one of the most adopted alternatives to develop a game for Android. One of the biggest advantages of Unity, in fact, is to be multi-platform, so you can develop a game not only for Android, but also for iOS and PC Desktop. What’s more, the benefits of Unity does not end here, in fact the fine online documentation allows everyone an easy and quick learning process.
The development environment, at first glance, might seem disorganized. There are many things to learn, both svilupapre a game in 2D and 3D, however, the opportunity to interact visually with the product that you are creating opens new doors, not to mention the possibility of using third-party add-on.
Also, it is important to specify that the Unity scripts are not in Java. In fact, if you choose this alternative you will need to have the basics of C # and Javascript. One flaw: to export projects for all platforms must purchase a license!
Cocos2d-x
Cocos2d-x is one of the most used framework in the iOS world, but also offers many advantages in the development of Android. The main positive aspect of the framework is its price: it is free, however, does not use any scripting language, but Objective-C.
Objective-C may be more difficult for some learning, but with x-Cocos2d the customization possibilities are many, in fact you will not necessarily limit yourself to the available API (as with most of the framework), but thanks to its flexibility can integrate LUA script, Javascript and C ++. Some of the most popular games on the Play Store, as Badland, have been realized thanks to Cocos2d-x.
Gideros
The Gideros graphics engine is not to be underestimated. Emerged recently, offers many benefits to users, first among them the opportunity to develop cross-platform Android and iOS. Gideros offers its users several options: buy one of the two licenses (Indie and Professional), or to continue with a free version and limitations.
The scripting language used is LUA, very simple and easy to learn. There is much dwell on what we have already discussed widely Gideros here .
Corona SDK
Corona SDK is another framework used for the development of cross-platform mobile applications. Again, the chosen language for scripting is LUA. The Corona SDK APIs are really a lot and allow the development of many different videogames and more. As always, there are some limitations.
In fact, you can develop and run tests even with the free version of the framework, but for the publication on the Play Store you must purchase the license Android to $ 199 price (the same goes for other platforms). To fill this gap, we (as a superscript) of the user-friendly API, although sometimes too wasteful for the neophyte.
GameMaker: Studio
GameMaker is a development environment that allows all those who want to learn game development to create a product in a simple and fast. L ‘IDE, in fact, is also very complex and, as a language you will be dealing with GML (G ame M aker L anguage), created especially for the development of a game with GameMaker.
Even in this case we are talking of a cross development platform and, as always, there are limitations. For the full version of GameMaker there is going to cost a lot ‘although, as usual, this does not preclude the possibility to learn the basic mechanics of this tool by using the free version.
AndEngine
Least known of the previous, but also very taken by those who approach for the first time to the programming of a game for Android. Unfortunately, despite AndEngine is completely free, it suffers from some weak points than the other game engine seen so far.
The documentation and online support are certainly not the same as those for other game engine and also, even as AndEngine library allows many inexperienced easy teaching in the development of a video game, but as party APIs do not offer extensive customization, unlike other libraries like libgdx for example. In short, a framework useful but unpretentious.
UDK
UDK, for those not familiar, is the free version of the famous Unreal Engine 3. We are talking about a professional game engine in every respect and, of course, with its costs, certainly not content. After its release, the game engine have been added to the Android and iOS support, but to use the API, and also to distribute the game later, you need to license $ 99. What’s more, 25% of royalty you will have to pour in Epic if the product you are going to create earnings exceed a certain threshold.
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