Android open source game engines + tutorials

android open-source game-engine
G'sson picture G'sson · Oct 9, 2011 · Viewed 14.8k times · Source

Hey iam pretty new to the android platform and wondering what the best open source game engine is and ples link some tutorials.

i just want to make something like a simple 2d platformer

ThX =)

Answer

user834595 picture user834595 · Oct 9, 2011

I'm going to have to plug Andengine - http://www.andengine.org/

It's free, it's open (source included) and it offers extensions for Box2D Physics, Live Wallpapers, Aug. Reality (Camera games) and allsorts of other stuff - LOADS of game in the market using it already (no royalties)

Downside is that the documentation is patchy (it's basically a lot of examples) and the author now works for Zynga and has been awfully quiet since he got a proper job :(

You can do amazing things with it tho - and it's easier than most of it's alternatives.

Unity - lovely idea but Unity-based Android Apps are horribly bloated.

If you already 'speak' Open/GL and/or you like the idea of developing/deploying on PC as well as Android, there's libgdx too - http://code.google.com/p/libgdx/ Andengine sort of sits on-top of that anyway - it's harder-work to learn but obviously being able to test/deploy on PC as well as Android has it's benefits.

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