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, OS X, Windows, Linux, Emscripten, Google Native Client, BlackBerry and Tizen.

cocos2d-x is:

• Fast
• Free
• Easy to use
• Community Supported

1. Download the code from cocos2d download site
2. Enter tools/project-creator
3. Run the create_project.py script

Example:

$ cd cocos2d-x/tools/project-creator
$ ./create_project.py -n mygame -k com.your_company.mygame -l cpp -p /home/mygame
$ cd /home/mygame

$ cd proj.android
$ ./build_native.py

• Enter proj.ios_mac folder, open mygame.xcodeproj
• Select ios or osx targets in scheme toolbar

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/build
$ ./install-deps-linux.sh
$ ../..

Then

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make -j4

Run

$ bin/mygame

• Enter proj.win32, open mygame.sln by vs2012

• 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

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

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

Select the test you want from Xcode Scheme chooser.

• For OS X / iOS

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

• For Linux

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

Run Samples

$ bin/hellocpp/hellocpp
or
$ bin/testlua/testlua

  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 hellocpp

Import HelloCpp Android project using Eclipse(released with Android SDK). The path to be imported is cocos2d-x/samples/Cpp/HelloCpp/proj.android.

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

• contributing to cocos2d-x

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