Introduction

cocos2d is a framework for building 2D games, demos, and other graphical/interactive applications.

cocos2d simplifies the game development in these areas:

• Flow control: Manage the flow control between different scenes in an easy way

• Sprites: Fast and easy sprites

• Actions: Just tell sprites what you want them to do. Composable actions like move, rotate, scale, etc

• Effects: Effects like waves, twirl, lens and much more

• Particle Systems: Explosions, fireworks, meteors, smoke and more

• Tiled maps: Support for rectangular and hexagonal tiled maps

• Collision: Basic pure python support for collisions

• Transitions: Move from scene to scene with style

• Menus: Built in classes to create menus

• Text rendering

• Documentation: Programming Guide + API Reference + Lots of simple tests showing how to use it

• Built-in python interpreter: For debugging purposes

• BSD license: Just use it

• pyglet based: No external dependencies

• OpenGL based: Hardward accelerated