Gideros vs Duality

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.

The full source code is available on GitHub, where the framework is actively developed. All of the editor, core and plugin code is written in C#.

Duality includes a powerful visual editing system that can be used for previewing, integrating, editing and testing game content.

Because both Core and Editor are completely plugin-based, Duality not only incorporates a clean and modular design, but is also very extensible - even if it wasn't Open Source. In fact, most of the standard editing capabilities comes in form of Editor plugins.

It can be configured to serialize all data in a text-based format, which has been structurally optimized for version control systems.

It has been used in a production environment without burning the place to the ground. Supposedly artist-proof editor workflow with an API for tailoring the system to fit your team.