Cocos2d
Cocos2d-x is a suite of open-source, cross-platform, game-development tools used by millions of developers all over the world. (by cocos2d)
Arcade
Easy to use Python library for creating 2D arcade games. (by pythonarcade)
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| Cocos2d | Arcade | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 44 | |
| 16,343 | 1,279 | |
| 0.7% | 2.4% | |
| 1.8 | 9.9 | |
| 7 days ago | 5 days ago | |
| C++ | Python | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Cocos2d
Posts with mentions or reviews of Cocos2d.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-14.
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How does writing shader source code work for OpenGL ES?
As others have pointed out, the biggest difference you're seeing is likely due to the _version_ of OpenGL (and hence GLSL) version. That said, there are still important differences. I'd recommend looking at a comparison between the same shader in a project that supports both OpenGL & OpenGLES. For example, here's a shader from cocos2d-x https://github.com/cocos2d/cocos2d-x/blob/v4/cocos/renderer/shaders/positionColor.vert. Note the only difference in this case is the additional precision qualifier (lowp) for v_fragmentColor. Note too how cocos uses preprocessor macros to handle this, so they don't have to maintain separate shader sources. Depending on your goals, you might be interested in tools like Nvidia cg or nvFX that allow for creating shaders in a dialect agnostic way, but ymmv.
- Im learning C++ and want to make a small game with it. What do you suggest me for graphics?
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Still have nothing to do with VS Code - WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH IT IN TERMS OF MAKING THINGS THAT ARE RELEVANT TO MAKING AN RPG MAKER MV GAME, NOT JUST EDITING NORMAL TEXT!? + DOES USING VS CODE WITH BASIC THINGS IN GITHUB WORTH IT?
Speaking about markdown files on GitHub, I know that there are some repositories that have very stunning README markdown files, such as this one for Cocos2d-x, whcih includes images in conjunction with text. I might do the same for my repository as well. Considering VS Code have an extension for .md files, this might come in handy when I consider using VS Code to contribute to my game projects.
Arcade
Posts with mentions or reviews of Arcade.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-17.
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Arcade with PyInstaller
Interesting, looks like some of the default fonts are not getting frozen as part of the executable? I opened an issue: https://github.com/pythonarcade/arcade/issues/1252
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Arcade 2.6.14 has been released
Website: https://arcade.academy
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Ideas for a new project?
Create a game! Get some ideas here: https://arcade.academy
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Are there any tutorials for making a game in python
You can look at the example code and tutorials here: https://arcade.academy/
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Arcade version 2.6.13 has been released
Added clear method to UIManager (#1116)
Arcade can now run in headless mode on linux servers opening more possibilities for users in for example the data science community (#1107). See Headless Arcade for more information.
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Arcade 2.6.11 is out
Fixed issue #978, copy button in examples moved to the left to prevent it disappearing.
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Arcade 2.6.11 has been released
Fixed issue #1074 to prevent a crash when opening a window.
Website: https://arcade.academy
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Different types of easing in Python
Well, it is open source. While not a tutorial, the code for the easings is here: https://github.com/pythonarcade/arcade/blob/development/arcade/easing.py
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Cocos2d and Arcade you can also consider the following projects:
Pygame - pygame (the library) is a Free and Open Source python programming language library for making multimedia applications like games built on top of the excellent SDL library. C, Python, Native, OpenGL.
Godot - Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
Panda3D - Powerful, mature open-source cross-platform game engine for Python and C++, developed by Disney and CMU
libGDX - Desktop/Android/HTML5/iOS Java game development framework
RenPy - The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine
Oxygine - Oxygine is C++ engine and framework for 2D games on iOS, Android, Windows, Linux and Mac
love - LÖVE is an awesome 2D game framework for Lua.
Allegro - The official Allegro 5 git repository. Pull requests welcome!
PySDL2