Gideros vs Phaser.io

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.

This is one of the most developed frameworks right now.

You can choose WebGL or classic HTML canvas element for game rendering.

There are plenty of great learning resources available for Phaser.io.

Most tasks are done just using 2 or 3 lines of code.

If you're browsing Slant, you probably already have a JavaScript enabled browser, which is most of what you need to get started learning JavaScript. The requirement to run a server locally on your computer while developing might make things a little more difficult

All you need to do is attach Phaser script to a HTML page even without installing any extensions.

Phaser provides a similar approach as to that of Flash games, where you can load assets and place them on a stage, and even improves upon the shortcomings of actionscript. It is very easy to shift from flash to HTML5 development because of this approach.

You can use it in popular online editors like replit, codandbox, etc.

The creator of phaser(photonstorm) has given the older(Phaser 2.0) source code to the community for their own maintenance, and has made Phaser 3.0 with a different style and approach, trying to make it easier for beginners to learn.