I was using Marmalade to easily build my Cocos2d-x 2.x game onto multiple platforms. As Marmalade is no more, what can I use for the latest Cocos2d-x 3.x?
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I have the basic ideas that libGDX uses RobotVM to compile Java into llvm-like bytecodes and then platform-specified codes.
I was wondering if I could use AndroidJSCore in libGDX applications. It's for android, I suppose this should compile. The problem is it relies on JavaScriptCore, which was built in C/C++. Does RobotVM compile C/C++ codes?
It sound like you have a wrong idea of what RoboVM is (was)
RoboVM was used by LibGDX to run on iOS. RoboVM was discontinued as of april 15 2016. LibGDX now uses Intel Multi-OS Engine to run on iOS.
LibGDX on Android uses Dalvik just like normal android apps. So if AndroidJSCore works with normal Android apps it should work with LibGDX too. But, you might be the first person to try it.
A friend of mine has developed an excellent game using the starling framework. He is now wondering if he could port the game to FirefoxOS before he launches. The game is written in actionscript 3 and the starling framework project can build mobile packages for android and ios. It also can generate the flash file for the web (using flash player). Are there any paths for porting the game to FirefoxOS?
Someone suggested using shumway. If you know about this way, or any other path, please give a bief account of advantages/disadvantages. I am specially concerned about the performance, since the game in question has very high quality graphics. I think it needs to run in a GPU accelerated environment.
EaselJS uses a similar syntax to ActionScript; it has a Display List, Stage, Graphics and even Filters, this will make working with the canvas easier for us Flash developers.
I suggest you to port that game to EaselJS and TweenJS (both from CreateJS), I have used it to develop games for Firefox OS and worked quite well.
An advantage is that CreateJS now uses a WebGL renderer, but it also has a fall back to Context2D rendering if WebGL is not available. That would make your device more widely supported.
You will find all its features very explained in the following post from Mozilla Hacks. It has also some cool benchmarks to try it.
WebGL and CreateJS for FirefoxOS
I want to develop an cocos2d-x game for android & iphone. I don't know from were to start my development. I know there is an template available for iphone, but after creating it on iphone how build it for android platform?
And what if i want to develop game form the eclipse itself rather then developing on iPhone and then migrating to android
I had already tried various tutorials of ray wenderlich, tutorial on cocos2d-x.org, http://paralaxer.com/cocos2d-x-project-setup/, http://www.multigesture.net/articles/how-to-setup-cocos2d-x-windows-and-android/, http://www.jesusbosch.com/2012/06/how-to-set-up-android-and-win32-cocos2d.html, http://gameit.ro/2012/01/creating-an-iphone-and-android-cocos2d-x-hybrid-project-updated/
From all of the above tutorials i am not able to get any proper solution.
Also tell me should i have to develop(code) on iPhone and then build for android?
Thank You in advance
simple :
-> Framework : cocos2d-X
-> Editor : Xcode
-> Language : C++
once you complete your Game for iphone then You can port your this game to any platform like Android or Windows. you already have all useful links . still follow this :
Setting_up_Android_Development_Environment_on_Mac_OSX :
http://www.cocos2d-x.org/projects/cocos2d-x/wiki/Setting_up_Android_Development_Environment_on_Mac_OSX
How to port your project to win32,iPhone and Android
http://www.cocos2d-x.org/boards/6/topics/3001
Integrate Cocos2d-x (C++) into an Android application (Java)
http://jpsarda.tumblr.com/post/26000816688/integrate-cocos2d-x-c-into-an-android-application
-> You just have to convert this native code using some JNI or say NDK .
-> using Cocos2d-x u can Develop games on Windows, Mac OS and Linux .
Personally if you are deploying to multiple platforms your best bet is to use a gaming engine. Currently Unity3D, UDK, and newly released Havok's Anarchy Engine supports deployment to these platforms and more. This way you can develop once and deploy to multiple locations. Cost is free for Havok, UDK if you are a small company, and I believe Unity3D now has free licensing to iOS and Android for their non-Pro versions.
I think going this route is far more promising than using cocos2d
The method I use is to use the templates for both iOS and Android that create projects for Xcode and Eclipse respectively. When you have this, you remove the Classes and Resources folders in for example the Eclipse project and replace those folders with links to the Xcode folders Classes and Resources.
What you now have is two projects, one for iOS and one for Android, that both use the same C++ code and resources. You can now choose which of Xcode and Eclipse that you prefer to use when developing and just switch to the other to compile for that platform and do testing and releasing there.
Hope that helps. :)
Look in cocos2d-x folder under /tools/project-creator/create-project.py , you should run that and it will create project for many platforms already set-up and from there you can just code in XCode, and platforms will share same source code.
I was confused by the information on http://www.cocos2d-x.org/
What is the difference between cocos2dx xna and cocos2dx for wp8?
It looks like cocos2dx xna only support c# programming,
cocos2dx for wp8 support c++ and only support wp8
Welcome any comment
In a nutshell:
cocos2dx xna:
supports WP7 & WP8,
it's a port written in C# (because at the time WP7 didn't support native languages)
cocos2dx for wp8:
Support WP8
It's written in C++ (it uses DirectX instead of OpenGL)
I want to create simple 2D game (touch/click to win) and I have experience with C# and XNA for WP7.
But now at W8 there isn't XNA afaik.
What technologies I have to use for this game?
I want to run it on desktop W8 and WinRT.
Thank you for your help!
If the game is simple enough graphically - you could just use Silverlight on Windows Phone and XAML on Windows 8 which would let you share a lot of the code. Another option is to use XNA on Windows Phone and MonoGame on Windows 8. MonoGame is an open source version of XNA. Otherwise - on Windows you can use DirectX with C++ or using SharpDX with C#, but these are not available on WP7. They will probably be on WP8 only. Finally - Unity3D support is coming soon, but the final version is not available yet.