Gideros vs Felgo (formerly V-Play)

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.

Qt-Creator IDE with Code Completion, Debugging and Profiling, integrated Quick Help, Version Control and more.

Felgo is among the easiest cross-platform tools to use according to a survey done by research2guidance.

With the Level Editor components, you can let your players share their levels with the whole game community which is cool because you don't need to create new levels on your own, but the community helps you with it. There are other community features like rewards for good level creators that helps getting more downloads.

Leaderboards, Achievements, Challenges are available across platform, even on Desktop. You can also use Cloud Syncinc of your game data that makes it easy to start a game for example on iPhone and then continue on a Nexus Tablet or the other way around.

It is also convenient because sharing to all kind of game services & networks like Facebook & Game Center is possible with a single API call. Custom hosting of Game Network servers is also possible if you want to keep the player data.

Although game logic is provided in JavaScript by you, performance-critical parts of the engine like OpenGL ES rendering or particle effects are implemented in rock-solid C++, providing the ultimate performance your game deserves.

Advanced Gaming Components for handling multiple display resolutions & aspect ratios, animations, particles, physics, multi-touch, gestures, path finding and more.

No need for native SDKs, Build in and Install from Cloud with the Felgo Build Server.

Cut your development time in half. Using the QML language allows for some powerful features that cut code lines and time. Another helpful feature that can help in this area is that there are more than 50 game demos of all genres that come with full source code, meaning one can easily check to see how something was done.

Felgo has friendly forums where core developers participate as well as fast & helpful email support.

The Qt framework is a great and mature framework on its own. Using Qt as a game engine base is a smart idea.

You can use ready-made components to balance any of your game properties at runtime, so also on mobile devices which is great for adjusting forces or input parameters.

Helps get started and improve with lots of tutorials, demo games, examples.

In-app purchases, game and social network integration (such as Game Center and Facebook), ads (with Chartboost and AdMob) and analytics (such as Flurry) are all available across platforms.

Every 2-4 weeks new updates provide additional features and fixes based on what users wanted the most.

You can even monetize these user-generated levels with in-app purchases with the Felgo Level Store component if you like.