Playcraft seems to support hex grids, at least in the announced 0.5.6 release: Here’s a big list of things we’ve changed: * hex tile maps now supported using (pc.HexTileLayer) The code is on Github. The project looks inactive since July 2013.
All the Java gaming engines are easily accessible due to easy Java integration. There are several (not sorted in any way): http://www.jmonkeyengine.com/ http://www.13thmonkey.org/~boris/jgame/ https://jge.dev.java.net/ http://www.lwjgl.org/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/tjger/ A good presentation how to start coding a game in Java is Write a 3-D Game in the Java Programming Language in Less Than 50 Minutes that applies as … Read more
What is stopping someone from copying the game onto their computer, and injecting functions and modules to cheat? Nothing. Is there any fundamental way to protect people from doing this sort of thing by designing your game code in a certain way? Nope.
Moai is open-source and uses Lua. I love Corona and put out an iPhone game I developed using it, but I’m planning to explore this new option for my next project.
When should scenes be used? For example in a platformer would every level have to be a different scene? Would the main menu be a scene? There are no general rules about that. In theory you may have just one scene for the whole game. How you organize your scenes is entirely up to you … Read more
Using a game engine or not is a preference. It will depend on what exactly you are after. If you want to learn about the underlying concepts of rendering, collision detection, etc, then writing these yourself is perfectly acceptable, and a lot of fun. On the other hand, if you just want to get the … Read more
Game engines that use Lua Free unless noted Agen (2D Lua; Windows) Amulet (2D Lua; Window, Linux, Mac, HTML5, iOS) Cafu 3D (3D C++/Lua) Cocos2d-x (2D C++/Lua/JS; Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS, Android, BlackBerry) Codea (2D&3D Lua; iOS (Editor is iOs app); $14.99 USD) Cryengine by Crytek (3D C++/Lua; Windows, Mac) Defold (2D Lua; Windows, Linux, … Read more
It flows from the definition of a normal. Suppose you have the normal, N, and a vector, V, a tangent vector at the same position on the object as the normal. Then by definition N·V = 0. Tangent vectors run in the same direction as the surface of an object. So if your surface is … Read more
I would recommend V-Play (v-play.net) – it’s a cross-platform game engine based on Qt for iOS, Android, Symbian, MeeGo, Blackberry10 and also can export for native desktop applications for Windows, Mac and Linux. It’s based on C++ but has a neat scripting support for QML & JavaScript. QML is a no-brainer to learn and can … Read more
LibGDX is one of the best engines I’ve ever used, works on almost all platforms, and performs twice as fast as cocos2d-x in most tests I’ve done. You can use any JVM language you like. Here’s a 13 part tutorial in Java, and here’s a bunch using jruby. There’s a good skeletal animation tool that … Read more