cocos2d for iPhone

A fast, easy to use, free, and community supported 2D game engine

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   Radelon
   Member

   I've been working with cocos2d some time and I find it a great engine and very comfortable to work with.

   Now I've got a project to make a 2d game on Linux and I'm looking for a engine that offers similar features to cocos2d (e.g. scene management, implemented draw and main loops).

   The first one I checked was cocos2d on python, but it seems that isn't maintained and I don't know how stable it was. Does someone have any recommendation or can share his experience with any engine? I don't mind if it's free or commercial as long as it worth the price.

   Posted 2 years ago #
2. 

   Codemattic
   Moderator

   Maybe try http://www.libsdl.org/

   Posted 2 years ago #
3. 

   Radelon
   Member

   The SDL lib seems more like an abstraction layer than an engine. I'm looking for a more complete framework, like cocos2d, but thanks for your reply.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   DetectiveCakes
   Member

   Well, there's always cocos2d: http://cocos2d.org/

   edit: oops, I'm an idiot and missed the end of your post where you said you already tried this. Sorry...

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Radelon
   Member

   In fact I didn't try it, i have to learn python first. But the last release was in 2008 and I don't know how stable it is, so I decided to ask here first. Any info about this version of cocos2d would be really appreciated. :)

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   mobilebros
   Moderator

   What about getting cocos2d-iphone to run on Linux...

   It looks like you can get objective-c on Linux by installing the gcc-objc package (comes with all Linux distributions apparently). However, your biggest hurdle would be the iphone-sdk specific code which unfortunately is a lot....

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Radelon
   Member

   I'm seriously thinking on it. I still haven't found anything good enough that can run on Linux and the iPhone version of cocos2d is more complete than the python version, so the effort may worth it.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   micah
   Member

   I'm interested in trying to get cocos2d-iphone running in Linux as well. I think the biggest hurdle is separating it from Apple's Cocoa and iOS libraries. But objective-c and OpenGL work in Linux.

   Posted 11 months ago #
9. 

   riq
   Key Master

   @micah: The cocotron project is toolchain for win32. It might also work on Linux... but I don't know.
   http://www.cocotron.org/

   Posted 11 months ago #
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    jou
    Member

    How can i install the cocos2d on linux?

    Posted 7 months ago #
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    hermesdavidms
    Member

    i dont know if it runs or it would run, but how about cocos2d x? its in C++ and multi platform

    Posted 7 months ago #
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    barbozza
    Member

    Last two weeks I try to find good crossplatform engine (to develop casual games for win, mac and ipad) and still didn't find it. Cocos2d-x is a good idea, but it's still mainly for mobile development. I marked out 4 engines and going to choose among them: Irrlicht (mainly for 3d, but can be used for2d too), torque2d, allegro and DeltaEngine. Last one is a very new, but they promise a lot of features, and it's a favourite for me now

    Posted 7 months ago #
13. 

    jou
    Member

    I know!but~~~

    Posted 7 months ago #

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