1st Birthday of Cocos2d-x

Cocos2d-x open-source project is a C++ version of cocos2d-iphone. Our focus for Cocos2d-x development is around making cocos2d cross-platform. On top of the framework provided by cocos2d-x, mobile games can be written in C++ or Lua,  using API that is COMPLETELY COMPATIBLE with that of cocos2d-iphone. Cocos2d-x projects can easily be built and run on iOS, Android, Samsung Bada and BlackBerry Tablet OS. Cocos2d-x also supports Windows and Linux, therefore we can debug source code easily and write editors on desktop operating systems.

 

Here’s our website: http://www.cocos2d-x.org

 

1. Native Gap for cpp

 

Though not as elegant as ObjectiveC, C++ is supported widely by most mobile/desktop platforms. Even though platforms offer higher level programming language, such as WebOS, which has the closest resemblance to html5, they still opens a gap of C++ & OpenGL ES for those computation-hungry games. Therefore C++ & OpenGL ES is still the most common gaming layer on most platforms. 

 

Cocos2d-x caught this gap to makes games cross-platform. Besides libGLES, developers also benefit from direct access to various C/C++ resources such as pthread, libxml2, libCurl, poco, etc. This dramatically improves our productivity. 

 

2. Supported Platforms

 (Ordered by stability & reliability) 

	Platform	Status	Remarks
1	iOS 4.0~5.0	Stable	63 registered games with about 3.5 million downloads
2	Android 2.0~2.3, 3.0~3.1	Stable	62 registered games with about 16.6 million downloads
3	Windows	Stable	Please don’t release games base on win32 port before we replace PowerVR GLES library with OpenGL
4	Bada	Stable	Finished in v0.10.0. Some alpha users have released games onto samsung store, and have totally 90,000+ downloads
5	BlackBerry Tablet OS	Coming Soon	Finished & merging. RIM guys joined in us recently
6	Ubuntu	Usable	Linux port uses OpenGL directly.
7	WoPhone	Almost deprecated	Without maintenance for several months
8	Marmalade	Almost deprecated	Only one game released is base on this port. We’re looking for a maintainer of this port
9	MeeGo	Deprecated	Finished but unmerged.  MeeGo is deprecated by Nokia & Intel after our contributors finished this port, oops

 

3. Some Top Games using Cocos2d-x

• Fishing Joy HD Android port, which as 12,000,000 downloads & 2,000,000 active users. It's maintaining by cocos2d-x core team :)
• Link Link 2 HD, 1,500,000 downloads on iOS, and 400,000 on Android
• Castle Empire, social game, New & Noteworthy in AppStore US & China region. (I'm having lots of fun in this game currently ^_^ )
• 91 Tribe, a social game, ios version, other versions
• Fishing Master, 100,000 downloads of ios version, 250,000 downloads of android version
• Crowd Subway, 270,000 downloads of ios version, 50,000 downloads of android version
• Ah Up Planet, ios version, android version (Warning: Don't play this game in office, haha)
• Cow vs Alien, Android port
• Super Stickman Golf, Android port
• Bird Hunting Mania, 1,000,000+ downloads on iOS, top10 in China
• Fighting of Sango: Legend of Heroes,
• Cut Cut Boom
• Ninja Chicken 2

You can find more awesome games & showcases from http://www.cocos2d-x.org/projects/cocos2d-x/apps 

One year ago, the first stable version of cocos2d-x was released on Nov 30, 2010. During last year, more than 125 mobile games based on cocos2d-x were released. In other words, two new games were shipped every week. Many developers, contributors and bloggers joined cocos2d-x community, sharing their new platform ports, bug fixes, cool features and tutorials to the community. Thanks to all of you, Cocos2d-x has grown out of its infancy.

We plan to make more cool stuffs in the coming year. Stay tuned.

本文转自Walzer博客园博客，原文链接：http://www.cnblogs.com/walzer/archive/2011/12/10/2283333.html，如需转载请自行联系原作者