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Cocos2D has been ported to run in javascript and called cocos2d-javascript by Ryan Williams.
Cocos2D is a game engine similar to Flash in that it is a 2d engine but it natively renders to OpenGL ES. Cocos2D-iphone was originally a port of Cocos2D, a python game engine. But the similarities to Flash and DisplayObjects = Nodes, Sprites, Scenes, Layers etc. This helps to port games over fairly quickly or start in productive in cocos2D.
Having this in javascript is a great thing! It runs on html5/canvas/javascript.
Cocos2d-javascript is a 2D game/graphics engine based on cocos2d-iphone but designed to run in the web browser. It uses the latest features available in HTML 5 allowing real-time rendering of 2D graphics without the need for plug-ins such as Adobe Flash.
While HTML 5 is still new and not fully supported across all browsers it won’t be long before the vast majority of web users are able to enjoy all that it offers. When this time comes cocos2d-javascript will be an excellent way to develop games and applications.
To see a small sample of what is on offer, please check out the demo section.
cocos2d engines are now available on almost all platforms, so if you are building a 2d game and need a 2d engine typically with Box2D physics, cocos2d offers lots of ways to get the game out there with some porting work.
- cocos2d-javascript (web)
- cocos2d-iphone (mobile)
- cocos2d-iphone site (objective-c)
- cocos2d-android-1 (java)
- cocos2d-android (java)
- cocos2d – original python (desktop)
- cocos2d other
- cocos2d-x c++ (C++ port for win, iphone, android-ndk)
- Similar to cocos2d – andengine (android java)
A sweet engine for getting started with Android game development is the andengine 2D OpenGL ES engine. This is very simple and compares with cocos2d-iphone for iOS development in 2D with OpenGL ES. They both support a wide range of 2d techniques with an OpenGL renderer. Some great videos are posted on the andengine google code page showing a box2D example, multiplayer example and more.
Mobile games are on slower hardware, similar to later 90′s computers so native is a great way to go for 3d and 2d game development because of this limitation at the current time and well into the next few years. Take this time to learn you some native gamedev. andengine isn’t native directly as it is Java based but compiled with the Dalvik JIT virtual machine. Another way to go native on Android is the Android NDK which allows C and C++.
- andengine download at google code
- andengine examples at google code
- andengine blog
- Mercurial repository at google code
- cocos2d-android port of cocos2d-iphone with BSD license
- rokon android is another BSD licensed android game engine
The engine also has extensions that can be easily added and some great ones exist already.
