[android-developers] Re: what's the best 2d engine and what's the tools I need to create a game?

2010-03-31 Thread Vladimir
I wrote a wall of text on engines and stuff, but the new shiny transparent awesome Opera crashed before I hit Send :/ so this one is short. I tried Cocos2D port 2 or 3 months ago when it was WIP and not fit for anything serious. It was a while back and things could've changed, IMHO the project

Re: [android-developers] Re: what's the best 2d engine and what's the tools I need to create a game?

2010-03-31 Thread Bardock TiGer
hmm, ok thank you friends, but can any one advise me about the tools for spriting background design..? and where to find a good 2D game tutorial? On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Vladimir vladimir.funti...@gmail.comwrote: I wrote a wall of text on engines and stuff, but the new shiny

[android-developers] Re: what's the best 2d engine and what's the tools I need to create a game?

2010-03-30 Thread Piotr
Hi, I'm sorry, but there is no official 2d game support, and none of available 2d engine is even close to XNA from M$'s. The only way to get decent performance is to use OpenGL with 2d projection mode. So, prepare for hard work, because 2d game support is weak, besides, platform has some

[android-developers] Re: what's the best 2d engine and what's the tools I need to create a game?

2010-03-30 Thread whitemice
If you want to see how its done, suggest you look here: Replica Island is a free, open-source game for Android. http://replicaisland.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to

[android-developers] Re: what's the best 2d engine and what's the tools I need to create a game?

2010-03-30 Thread Emmanuel
There are some existing 2D engines, that you can find by googling. The most famous is, I think Rokon, that is quite complete ( with one successful game, and that deal with 2D, Sound, TouchPad, Accelerometer, etc... ) hope it helps, Emmanuel http://androidblogger.blogspot.com/

Re: [android-developers] Re: what's the best 2d engine and what's the tools I need to create a game?

2010-03-30 Thread Kevin Duffey
Whitemice.. did you create replica island? It looks great. Downloading it now. I gotta be honest.. given the various threads on this forum and the beginner forum about the lacking capabilities of android, be it low latency sound, better 3D performance, native layer issues, etc etc.. and honestly

[android-developers] Re: what's the best 2d engine and what's the tools I need to create a game?

2010-03-30 Thread Warren
I've written a couple 2D games and the biggest problem is performance. Drawing bitmaps on a canvas works alright, and it does the job, but you will not be getting 60 frames per second, or anything close for that matter. I had to resort to performance tricks that mostly haven't been used since the

[android-developers] Re: what's the best 2d engine and what's the tools I need to create a game?

2010-03-30 Thread Mihai Fonoage
From http://knol.google.com/k/fred-grott/android-resources-for-application/166jfml0mowlh/12#Android_Development_Libraries: Angle, Rokon2D, Cocos2D, AGE, Cloak, JuicyGames On Mar 30, 3:24 am, jProg bk.1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm a newbie to android and I want to develop my first 2d game..:)

[android-developers] Re: what's the best 2d engine and what's the tools I need to create a game?

2010-03-30 Thread Mihai Fonoage
From http://knol.google.com/k/fred-grott/android-resources-for-application/166jfml0mowlh/12#Android_Development_Libraries Angle, Rokon2D, Cocos2D, AGE, Cloak, JuicyGames On Mar 30, 3:24 am, jProg bk.1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm a newbie to android and I want to develop my first 2d game..:) I

[android-developers] Re: what's the best 2d engine and what's the tools I need to create a game?

2010-03-30 Thread Ozymandias
http://rokonandroid.com/ is the only 2d engine as far as I know. On Mar 30, 12:24 am, jProg bk.1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm a newbie to android and I want to develop my first 2d game..:) I read about engines ..but what do you advice me to go with--for 2d game and what is the best tools I

Re: [android-developers] Re: what's the best 2d engine and what's the tools I need to create a game?

2010-03-30 Thread Kevin Duffey
Look at the link Mihai posted.. it has others. On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Ozymandias jor...@gmail.com wrote: http://rokonandroid.com/ is the only 2d engine as far as I know. On Mar 30, 12:24 am, jProg bk.1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm a newbie to android and I want to develop my first