I’ve been working with a small team to build a cross platform game leveraging the Cocos2D gaming engine on iOS. I chose this platform for a few reasons:
\n1) There is a really good book explaining the basics of game programming and the libraries.
\n2) There seems to be a good number of other people using this engine
\n3) The game I am working on is a turn based strategy game and this engine seems to support that
\n4) I wanted to create a hex based map and had read that Cocos2d supported this
\n5) I had heard that it is cross platform capable with Cocos2d-X<\/p>\n
Given those four reasons I have started looking around on StackoverFlow<\/a> for more information on the cross platform nature of the libraries. Previously I had only found a single wiki<\/a> that talked about cocos2d-x. So I was a bit worried already.<\/p>\n After a bit of reading, I didn’t feel any better or any worse for that matter. The biggest concerns that I have found in my readings are as follows: Given those three findings, I am trying to decide, is it worth starting from scratch with a cross platform game and design? Will I learn enough, so even if the game is a bomb, the overhead will be worth it? <\/p>\n What do you think? Do you code for multiple environments upfront, or port your app once you have a success?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been working with a small team to build a cross platform game leveraging the Cocos2D gaming engine on iOS. I chose this platform for a few reasons: 1) There is a really good book explaining the basics of game programming and the libraries. 2) There seems to be a good number of other people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"hide_page_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[19,81,117,217],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-android","tag-cocos2d-x","tag-development","tag-ios"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2aMa8-1C","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2939,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/2939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelrowe01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1) Cocos2d doesn’t really support hex based maps (so I’ll change my design)
\n2) Cocos2d-x is really a C++ wrapper which requires that you code in C++ for iOS too (doesn’t seem too painful yet)
\n3) Like all cross platform development this is going to be hard (and will probably take a performance hit!)<\/p>\n