corona
Solar2D Game Engine main repository (ex Corona SDK) (by coronalabs)
defold
Defold is a completely free to use game engine for development of desktop, mobile and web games. (by defold)
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| corona | defold | |
|---|---|---|
| 20 | 7 | |
| 2,419 | 3,710 | |
| 2.2% | 4.0% | |
| 7.8 | 9.8 | |
| 3 days ago | about 5 hours ago | |
| C++ | C++ | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
corona
Posts with mentions or reviews of corona.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-13.
- Solar2D is Lua-based game engine focusing on ease of iterations and usage
- LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in Lua
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Total Noob With a Question.
This is using the Lua language and the Solar2d game framework
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What mobile game engine to choose for a simple multiplateforme gacha game?
- https://solar2d.com/
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10 lesser known engines to make games for fun and relax
I was a big fan of Solar2D (formerly known as CoronaSDK) for many years... I developed several games for the various App Stores. It's still around, free, and is now Open Source.
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Hello everyone!
https://solar2d.com/ Best Lua game engine around and only getting better.
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should i use pygame, lua or gamemaker language for an rpg
Not tailored specifically for an RPG but I'd suggest taking a look at Solar2D.
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What game engine to use for a 2D interface only game
About Solar2D, I'd suggest their Discord channel for better communication.
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Theory vs Practice
Dont follow this path. Computers are nowadays fast enough so you do not need a low level language. Take a different language and use the libraries. I think a while ago Romero recommended LUA with corona sdk, now called solar 2d https://solar2d.com/
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Recommended platform / language for making very basic Mario clone
Solar2D uses Lua, and is quite efficient in 2D games
defold
Posts with mentions or reviews of defold.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-11.
- Not only Unity...
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Defold is also a completely FREE industry proven 2D game engine, developed by King and source available, for anyone who's interested..
Yes that King, the ones who made Candy Crush. They made a game engine source available (open source with the exception that you can't create a competing game engine from it) with full 2D capabilities, tile map support, spine support, shaders, particle systems, UI editor, scene editor, Box 2D and Bullet for physics, hot-reloading, profiling & debugging tools, etc. It also has basic 3D support, although I wouldn't recommend it for anyone making a primarily 3D game. It's written in C++ and uses Lua as the scripting language, and it's easy enough to write native extensions for any platform's language of choice.
- Defold: A free to use game engine
- Why do I have to always connect to internet in order to create new project.
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ValueObject
looks very neat, but it doesn't really get more OO than JavaFX, does it ? would you call this code functional & idiomatic in any relevant sense of the term? https://github.com/defold/defold/blob/dev/editor/src/clj/edi...
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C# games in Godot, 2022 edition
Maybe that's typical in gaming situations, but it has a weird license: https://github.com/defold/defold/blob/1.3.4/LICENSE.txt ("the Defold License version 1.0")
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Lua, Nim, and Wren for game development
If you paint by some numbers, the Defold repo (https://github.com/defold/defold) has 1k issues, and only 14 prs open, whereas the Godot repo (https://github.com/godotengine/godot) has 5k+ issues and a whopping 1.1k prs open. And a difference of 1500 contributors on Godot, versus 37 total contributors on Defold.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing corona and defold you can also consider the following projects:
Godot - Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
krkrz - Kirikiri Z Project
GDevelop - :video_game: Open-source, cross-platform game engine designed to be used by everyone.
flame - A Flutter based game engine.
godex - Godex is a Godot Engine ECS library.
MicroTeX - A dynamic, cross-platform, and embeddable LaTeX rendering library
MonoGame - One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games.
hubomat - Github actions for running a HubOMatic deploy
Stride Game Engine - Stride Game Engine (formerly Xenko)
TIC-80 - TIC-80 is a fantasy computer for making, playing and sharing tiny games.
godot-jvm - Godot Kotlin JVM Module