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Snake
Snake

Reputation: 14648

Should I use game engine for android

I am wondering, if I am to make a simple basic bird shooting game (birds flying above and boy shooting them from bottom), then do I require a game engine for android develpment? Should I go through the hassle of learning AndEngine? Or Do I do it using SurfaceView/ or even animations?

Thank you

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4905

Answers (4)

rbgrn
rbgrn

Reputation: 404

Another new cross-platform Lua-based engine to try is BatteryTech Engine. http://www.batterytechsdk.com

Free to Try Supports Android, iOS, BB10, PC, Mac

License purchase gives you full source code.

Upvotes: 0

Dean Rather
Dean Rather

Reputation: 32384

Here's another list of Game engines but mostly for larger-scale production games. There's an "Open Source" listing at the bottom too.

Upvotes: 0

deepa
deepa

Reputation: 2494

You can try to have AndEngine. Its better than SurfaceView since AndEngine is a Game Engine. Here it comes all types of Animation and Its easy for you have better game experience but we have to take care of Memory Issues here.

You can try to use Cocos2D also. List of opensource game Engine are GameEngines. Try to think in all the way to suitable for your game.

Tutorial for Cocos2d

AndEngine Tutorial

Upvotes: 3

Dean Rather
Dean Rather

Reputation: 32384

You could try out Google's new games engine for android.

It's pretty new and I don't know if any existing games utilise it, but it's in active development and new features are coming out frequently. Including the recent feature to export to IOS, making it an option for cross-platform deployment.

Upvotes: 2

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