Cocos2d-x open source project is C++ version of cocos2d-iphone. We focus on making cocos2d framework cross multiple platforms. Mobile games can be written on the top of cocos2d-x in C++ or Lua language, via the COMPLETELY SAME API as cocos2d-iphone, they can easily be built & run on iOS, Android, Samsung Bada and BlackBerry Tablet OS. Cocos2d-x also supports Windows & Linux, therefore we can debug source code easily and write editors on desktop operating systems.
Here’s our website: http://www.cocos2d-x.org
1. Native Gap for cpp
C++ is not as elegant as ObjectiveC, but it is supported widely by most mobile/desktop platforms. Even if some platforms offer high level programming language, for example, WebOS, the closest to html5, they still open a gap of C++ & OpenGL ES for making performance-hungry games. So C++ & OpenGL ES is the most common gaming layer on most platforms.
Cocos2d-x caught is gap to make games cross platforms. Besides libGLES, we can also benefit from various C/C++ resources such as pthread, libxml2, libCurl, poco, etc to reduce our workload.
2. Supported Platforms
(Ordered by stability & reliability)
| Platform | Status | Remarks | |
| 1 | iOS 4.0~5.0 | Stable | 63 registered games with about 3.5 million downloads |
| 2 | Android 2.0~2.3, 3.0~3.1 | Stable | 62 registered games with about 16.6 million downloads |
| 3 | Windows | Stable | Please don’t release games base on win32 port before we replace PowerVR GLES library with OpenGL |
| 4 | Bada | Stable | Finished in v0.10.0. Some alpha users have released games onto samsung store, and have totally 90,000+ downloads |
| 5 | BlackBerry Tablet OS | Coming Soon | Finished & merging. RIM guys joined in us recently |
| 6 | Ubuntu | Usable | Linux port uses OpenGL directly. |
| 7 | WoPhone | Almost deprecated | Without maintenance for several months |
| 8 | Marmalade | Almost deprecated | Only one game released is base on this port. We’re looking for a maintainer of this port |
| 9 | MeeGo | Deprecated | Finished but unmerged. MeeGo is deprecated by Nokia & Intel after our contributors finished this port, oops |
3. Some Top Games using cocos2d-x
- Fishing Joy HD Android port, which as 12,000,000 downloads & 2,000,000 active users. It’s maintaining by cocos2d-x core team
- Link Link 2 HD, 1,500,000 downloads on iOS, and 400,000 on Android
- Castle Empire, social game, New & Noteworthy in AppStore US & China region, (I’m having lots of fun in this game currently )
- 91 Tribe, a social game, ios version, other versions
- Fishing Master, 100,000 downloads of ios version, 250,000 downloads of android version
- Crowd Subway, 270,000 downloads of ios version, 50,000 downloads of android version
- Ah Up Planet, ios version, android version (Warning: Don’t play this game in office, haha)
- Cow vs Alien, Android port
- Super Stickman Golf, Android port
- Bird Hunting Mania, 1,000,000+ downloads on iOS, top10 in China
- Fighting of Sango: Legend of Heroes,
- Cut Cut Boom
- Ninja Chicken 2
We plan to make more cool stuffs in the coming year. You’ll see, aha.
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