Cocos2d
Cocos2d is an open-source game development framework for creating 2D games and other graphical software for iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Linux, HarmonyOS, OpenHarmony and web platforms. It is written in C++ and provides bindings for various programming languages, including C++, C#, Lua, and JavaScript. The framework offers a wide range of features, including physics, particle systems, skeletal animations, tile maps, and others.
| Original author(s) | Zhe Wang |
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| Developer(s) | Chukong Technologies |
| Initial release | December 1, 2010 |
| Stable release | |
| Repository | github |
| Written in | C++ |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| License | MIT License |
| Website | cocos2d-x |
| Original author(s) | Ricardo Quesada |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Andrei Volodin and Lars Birkemose |
| Initial release | June 25, 2008 |
| Stable release | 3.5.0
/ April 3, 2016 |
| Repository | github |
| Written in | Objective-C |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| License | MIT License |
| Website | web |
| Original author(s) | Ricardo Quesada, Lucio Torre |
|---|---|
| Initial release | February 29, 2008 |
| Stable release | 0.6.9
/ November 9, 2020 |
| Repository | github |
| Written in | Python |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| License | 3-clause BSD |
| Website | python |
Cocos2d was first released in 2008, and was originally written in Python. It contains many branches with the best known being Cocos2d-ObjC (formerly known as Cocos2d-iPhone), Cocos2d-x, Cocos2d-JS and Cocos2d-XNA. There are also many third-party tools, editors and libraries made by the Cocos2d community, such as particle editors, spritesheet editors, font editors, and level editors, like SpriteBuilder and CocoStudio.