Gideros vs Orx

Gideros provides on device players for iOS and Android that can be used to instantly try out your code directly from the Gideros IDE.

Gideros provides an easy way to target various screen sizes by providing automatic scaling options and choosing the best image resolution based on device screen automatically

You can build apps without an online dependency.

Gideros has an active forum where you can find friendly and helpful advice.

Gideros is being constantly updated and improved by the main developers.

Gideros Studio is incredibly easy to set up. Once installed it is very easy to create a new project or open one of the many example projects. Trying out an example on the desktop is two clicks away.

Gideros Studio has a very powerful feature which enables developers to use a C/C++/Java/ObjC library next to Lua. This way it's possible to call the library functions under Lua, get the results and interpret them directly under Gideros Studio.

Gideros supports iOS, Android, Windows, MacOS, WindowsRT, Windows Phone and HTML5 platforms.

2D performance is amazing.

Gideros uses the Lua programming language which is very easy to learn (and very powerful). There are some excellent video tutorials too, to help you get started. The Gideros forum community are also very friendly and helpful if you any any problems.

Powerful config system that makes orx data-driven and provides an easy to use load/save system.

Good friendly development community ready to help each other with tips and advice for setting up and best practices.

Automatic hot-loading of resources upon modification on disk, shortens drastically iteration times.

Written in C with high emphasis on memory and CPU efficiency.

Supports Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, iOS and Android.

Orx is a Data Driven engine that greatly reduces required code. You can configure object definitions, bodies, cameras, sound, animation, event tracks, etc.

GLSL code can be added straight into data configuration files and can be applied to any texture: background or objects whivh allows for some amazing effects. All GLSL versions are supported, again by providing the shader language version in your configuration file.
Parameters are supported and values over time for shader animation.

Clock system that provides time consistency and allows time stretching + high precision timers

Color and translation FX are simple to configure and apply to objects.

Includes a chaining graph & custom animation events for synchronization.

Uses the zlib license. Lets you use Orx for free for any kind of projects, even for commercial ones.

All input devices are fully supported: Joysticks, Mouse, Gamepad, Keyboard and Touchscreen. Multiple physical devices and be mapped the same binding.

Rated the fastest engine in the OpenFL’s BunnyMark since October 2015.

Samples for sound effects, or streams for music. All sounds can be groups via audio buses just like in a typical DAW (Digital Audio Workstation).
All sounds can be spatial relative to the camera.

Camera/viewport scheme allowing multiple views displayed with camera translation, zoom and rotation.

Fragment (pixel) shader support, render to texture, MRT, easy composition and custom rendering support.

Integrated runtime profiler (with graphical display) to easily spot which parts of your game need to be optimized.

Supports .bmp, .png, .jpg, .tga and .dds

Out of the box Windows support for:

• Visual Studio
• Codelite
• CodeBlocks
• gmake

Out of the box Mac support for:

• XCode
• Codelite
• gmake

Out of the box Linux support for:

• Codelite
• CodeBlocks
• gmake

Orx provides a excellent c++ wrapper for object oriented design, called: orx/Scroll. You can, of course, roll your own.