[casual_games] Game Engines for Mobile games

[Martin Grider]

Don't forget about Epic's Unreal engine, which just came down in price
for us indies. http://www.udk.com/download

Here's a relatively old article comparing some of the open source ones
(including a few not mentioned here yet):
http://maniacdev.com/2009/08/the-open-source-iphone-game-engine-comparison/

Someone should really maintain a spreadsheet of these with columns
comparing each of them. I nominate Chris!

Hey Chris!  ;)

-martin



On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:19 AM, Paul Steven <paul_steven at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Corona is lua. It is an easy language to pick up

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> Sent from my iPhone

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> On 7 Mar 2011, at 04:50, "Johnson, Joel" <JoelJ at nds.com> wrote:

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>> This looks really cool!

>> I'm primarily looking at Java-based systems (No experience with Android, but I hear it's Java?), so Corona looks good.

>>

>> What's the most commonly used programming language across all these game engines anyway?

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>> -----Original Message-----

>> From: casual_games-bounces at igda.org [mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Chris Dillman

>> Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 7:17 PM

>> To: IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List

>> Subject: Re: [casual_games] Game Engines for Mobile games

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>> Good morning.. just woke up but off the top of my head... I know Im

>> leaving some out.

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>> Engines for mobile...

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>> Note that All of these engines are good and hit games have been shipped on

>> iphone with most of them.

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>> They range from $3000 to Free

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>> http://unity3d.com/

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>> http://gamesalad.com/

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>> http://www.garagegames.com/products/torque-2d/iphone

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>> http://sio2interactive.com/

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>> http://www.stonetrip.com/

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>> http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/

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>> Toss in a few other IDE style tools here

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>> http://www.anscamobile.com/corona/

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>> http://www.phonegap.com/

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>> http://www.runrev.com/

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