Orx vs Defold

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.

Defold uses Lua, which is regarded as an easy to learn language by most.

Software and online dashboard are free of charge.

You can do a lot with drag and drop, but you're not limited -- the code (Lua, which is easy to learn) allows you more power than just visual editing usually gives you.

Going from idea to result is very important for the creative process.

Being crossplatform it is important to work on low end devices.

A very active and friendly community in forums.

You can download and modify the source code of the Editor and the engine for free.

You can invite friends from the dashboard and create games together.

It allows you to change scripts in a game while it is running live. Common use-cases is to tweak gameplay parameters or to perform debugging on a running game.