cocos2d-x

cocos2d-x is a multi-platform framework for building 2d games, interactive books, demos and other graphical applications. It is based on cocos2d-iphone, but instead of using Objective-C, it uses C++. It works on iOS, Android, Windows Phone, OS X, Windows and Linux.

cocos2d-x is:

• Fast
• Free
• Easy to use
• Community Supported

How to start a new game

1. Download the code from cocos2d download site
2. Run setup.py
3. Run the cocos script

Example:

$ cd cocos2d-x
$ ./setup.py
$ source FILE_TO_SAVE_SYSTEM_VARIABLE
$ cocos new MyGame -p com.your_company.mygame -l cpp -d NEW_PROJECTS_DIR
$ cd NEW_PROJECTS_DIR/MyGame

Build and run new project for android

$ cocos run -p android -j 4

Build and run new project for iOS

$ cocos run -p ios

Build and run new project for OSX

$ cocos run -p mac

Build and run new project for linux

if you never run cocos2d-x on linux, you need to install all dependences by the script in cocos2d/build/install-deps-linux.sh

$ cd cocos2d-x/build
$ ./install-deps-linux.sh

Then

$ cd NEW_PROJECTS_DIR/MyGame
$ cocos run -p linux

Run

$ bin/MyGame

Build and run new project for win32

$ cocos run -p win32

Main features

• Scene management (workflow)
• Transitions between scenes
• Sprites and Sprite Sheets
• Effects: Lens, Ripple, Waves, Liquid, etc.
• Actions (behaviours):
  • Trasformation Actions: Move, Rotate, Scale, Fade, Tint, etc.
  • Composable actions: Sequence, Spawn, Repeat, Reverse
  • Ease Actions: Exp, Sin, Cubic, Elastic, etc.
  • Misc actions: CallFunc, OrbitCamera, Follow, Tween
• Basic menus and buttons
• Integrated with physics engines: Box2d and Chipmunk
• Particle system
• Skeleton Animations: Spine and Armature support
• Fonts:
  • Fast font rendering using Fixed and Variable width fonts
  • Support for .ttf fonts
• Tile Map support: Orthogonal, Isometric and Hexagonal
• Parallax scrolling
• Motion Streak
• Render To Texture
• Touch/Accelerometer on mobile devices
• Touch/Mouse/Keyboard on desktop
• Sound Engine support (CocosDenshion library) based on OpenAL
• Integrated Slow motion/Fast forward
• Fast and compressed textures: PVR compressed and uncompressed textures, ETC1 compressed textures, and more
• Resolution Independence
• Language: C++, with Lua and JavaScript bindings
• Open Source Commercial Friendly: Compatible with open and closed source projects
• OpenGL ES 2.0 (mobile) / OpenGL 2.1 (desktop) based

Build Requirements

• Mac OS X 10.7+, Xcode 4.6+
• or Ubuntu 12.10+, CMake 2.6+
• or Windows 7+, VS 2012+
• Python 2.7.5

Runtime Requirements

• iOS 5.0+ for iPhone / iPad games
• Android 2.3+ for Android games
• Windows Phone 8+ for Windows Phone games
• OS X v10.6+ for Mac games
• Windows 7+ for Win games

Running Tests

Select the test you want from Xcode Scheme chooser.

• For OS X / iOS

$ cd cocos2d-x/build
$ open cocos_tests.xcodeproj

• For Linux

$ cd cocos2d-x/build
$ ./install-deps-linux.sh
$ cmake ..
$ make

Run Samples

$ bin/cpp-empty-test/cpp-empty-test
or
$ bin/lua-empty-test/lua-empty-test

  You may meet building errors when building libGLFW.so. It is because libGL.so directs to an error target,
  you should make it to direct to a correct one. `install-deps-linux.sh` only has to be run once.

• For Windows

Open the cocos2d-x/build/cocos2d-win32.vc2012.sln

• For Android

$ cd cocos2d-x/build
$ python ./android-build.py cpp-empty-test -p 10
$ adb install ../tests/cpp-empty-tst/proj.android/bin/CppEmptyTest-debug.apk

Then click item on Android device to run tests. Available value of -p is the API level, cocos2d-x supports from level 10.

Contributing to the Project

Did you find a bug? Do you have feature request? Do you want to merge a feature?

• contributing to cocos2d-x

Contact us

• Forum: http://forum.cocos2d-x.org
• Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/cocos2dx
• Weibo: http://t.sina.com.cn/cocos2dx
• IRC: https://webchat.freenode.net/ (#cocos2d and #cocos2d-x channels)