I took interest in Cocos2d thanks to its C++ and Python support, but since Cocos Creator doesn’t support either of those languages, I don’t plan on actually using it any time soon.
The interface (from what little I’ve seen) is very Unity-like, and while like Unity, it supports Javascript, I wouldn’t use Cocos Creator even if I was a JS coder. Reason being that my game dev class requires me to use Unity, and thus, I don’t see why I should switch.
Though, I would be more than happy to use Cocos Creator if it supported C++, since I am right now learning Cocos2d to get better at C++ game programming. If it came to support Python as well, I’ll also use it after I get to a certain point in game programming skill with C++.
Another +1 here for being someone stuck using cocos2d-x + Cocos Studio.
While Studio has it’s problems, it’s purpose is pretty clearly defined and it works really well for being a WYSIWYG editor that provides modular components I can load into a game and interact with in c++.
While keeping an in-production game running and updated with 500k+ downloads I don’t have time to be rewriting anything for Cocos Creator and even then I feel, like everyone, that we’d be investing our time in another ‘closed editor that will be discarded like Studio one day’.
I feel if I wanted to properly invest in a ‘creator-like’ editor I’d be picking Unity on the grounds of:
+1 for Qt! From my personal experience, Qt is one of the best tools for such tasks. It is very well documented, it’s easy-to-use, solid and very stable. Qt-applications run on MacOS, Windows and Linux and Qt is older even than Java language.
the javascript syntax is a pain in the ass to use- a missing comma or bracket can break the game. Compare that to godot’s python like gdscript or gamemaker’s gml- both are way better
Thanks everyone for the continued thoughts. I can assure you all that we read all of this feedback and try to improve Creator with each and every release.
If you get jammed up, you can always e-mail me and I can help facilitate an answer. Please reserve e-mailing me directly for when you are really stuck. Meaning: you cannot ship your game or move forward at all without an answer. The forum is always beast to start since everyone can help and everyone can benefit from the knowledge.
for a month now i have been painfully struggling to migrate our cocos2d-js project to cocos creator
the api differences are staggering! the migration effort take almost as long as it would have been to to write the whole game from scratch.
I’m using it for learning purposes. With it I’ve been able to understand the basic concepts for Cocos2d-x which I’m planning on using in the future. Of course, I’m using it for a very basic game that doesn’t require more than a collision detection and a couple of assets.
I think bigger projects need better support, community and documentation but because CC is starting to grow, it’s going to be a path molded by the interaction between users and CC’s developers.
As others have pointed out, it’s a great tool for making prototypes really fast. I’m yet to test the actual compilation process, but I’ve had a great experience with it so far.
For me, it’s the open source aspect of Cocos2d-x which is the most important part. I used to use LibGDX, but the RoboVM component was closed source and got discontinued. I don’t want to end up in a situation where something I am relying on suddenly becomes unavailable.
Also, it’s just inertia – I’ve started making games this way and it’s working for me, so it’s difficult to convince myself to try something new.
But will it be good, if creator JS sources will be opened? Engine is C++ and editor should be C++ too, so even with JS sources it’s useless for me, I won’t learn JS… also when I just run that editor on macOS, it’s feels cheap product, all UX and UI are ugly and works awkward… same as was before with cocos studio… they are not learn…
Something that I really found very hard to do was creating my own custom plugins, I’m working on Android devices, so I really want to use my own plugins, I really love how unity deals with this, you create a library “aar” in android studio then this is merged in the final compilation, so it’s very practical because I don’t really need to modify the android studio final compilation.
Sorry, but we didn’t say that you can migrate other project to Creator automatically…
You can import csd from Cocos Studio, but game logic should rewrite.
I think the lack of stability is my biggest problem promoting CC for use at my company:
What happened to Cocos Studio? Why is there no download maintained for people who depended on it?
What is going on with Editor support? The internal editor was dropped in favour of (apparently) VSCode, but now thats going? What the hell?
Cocos2d-js is OSS, but the version used by CC is different, and CC itself is closed source AND requires a login. What if support for this is abruptly dropped? Having the editor turned off over night, with no fallback ability to actually continue development with existing projects seems an unacceptable business risk.
