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Add to SafariWhen comparing Felgo (formerly V-Play) vs Modd.io, the Slant community recommends Felgo (formerly V-Play) for most people. In the question“What are the best 2D game engines?” Felgo (formerly V-Play) is ranked 41st while Modd.io is ranked 94th. The most important reason people chose Felgo (formerly V-Play) is:
Qt-Creator IDE with Code Completion, Debugging and Profiling, integrated Quick Help, Version Control and more.
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Pros
Pro Mature cross platform IDE
Qt-Creator IDE with Code Completion, Debugging and Profiling, integrated Quick Help, Version Control and more.
Pro Easy to learn
Felgo is among the easiest cross-platform tools to use according to a survey done by research2guidance.
Pro In-game level editor
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.
Pro Felgo game network
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.
Pro Native performance
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.
Pro Advanced gaming components
Advanced Gaming Components for handling multiple display resolutions & aspect ratios, animations, particles, physics, multi-touch, gestures, path finding and more.
Pro Felgo build server
No need for native SDKs, Build in and Install from Cloud with the Felgo Build Server.
Pro Rapid development
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.
Pro Support can be found in forums and via e-mail
Felgo has friendly forums where core developers participate as well as fast & helpful email support.
Pro Based on Qt framework
The Qt framework is a great and mature framework on its own. Using Qt as a game engine base is a smart idea.
Pro Runtime-balancing
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.
Pro Lots of learning resources
Helps get started and improve with lots of tutorials, demo games, examples.
Pro Social services and monetization
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.
Pro Frequent updates
Every 2-4 weeks new updates provide additional features and fixes based on what users wanted the most.
Pro Level store
You can even monetize these user-generated levels with in-app purchases with the Felgo Level Store component if you like.
Pro Its Fun, its easy to script
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Pro Runs well on low-end devices
The game client doesn't use much CPU nor bandwidth.
Pro Free
By far, this engine is completely free to use.
Pro No installation required - super easy to get started
Modd.io runs in browser, it provides IDE, map editor, and asset manager all in one platform, so you don't need to download or setup anything.
Pro Easy to use free Asset Library
You can easily change your game assets (images, sound, etc) with a single click using modd.io Asset Library
Pro Has multiplayer support baked in
This engine supports up to 64 concurrent players, and hosts servers for you as well
Pro Perfect for Impatient game developers
It literally takes 5 minutes from signup to publishing my game
Pro Easy to use
Modd.io is designed for new/intermediate developers who wants to get into game development. You should be comfortable using the engine after spending about 15 minutes in watching tutorial videos
Cons
Con No 3rd party tutorials
There are little to none amount of tutorials for Felgo other than what was made by the engine developers themselves.
Con The engine is evolving in a bad way
Over the last updates, many useful features have been removed, making it harder to create more complex games.
Con Not very secure
Modd.io comes with its own security issues. Many of them have been used to destroy eachother's games, which completely busts your progress on your game unless you have backed it up by exporting it's JSON.
Con Not Possible for stuff
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Con Annoying asset size limit
Each asset is limited to 800kb (except for audio being 3mb) which is okay for simple assets but unacceptable for creating spritesheets for animations or tilesheets for the map.
Con Very flat map
No matter how well game maps are made, all of them look just not beautiful.
Con No/limited camera manipulation
You cannot create a shake effect which is also urgently needed in complex game creation.
Con Certain variable datatypes are urgently needed but do not exist.
Such datatypes as arrays composed of numbers, strings, etc are needed to create complex games but just do not exist in this game engine.
Con Joke-y community
Most of the staff team in the community are constantly behaving like jokers. It just always feels like 80% of the staff team is not the right pick for such a community.
Con The homepage is not good
The homepage allows players to join your game, but the way it works is just not good. The "unpopular 0 player" games get less exposure than the popular games. The tier system also puts a star on your game card which also lures players to your game making them think this game has a special event or something, giving a disadvantage to the less popular games which are still so called "Tier 1".
Con Not very powerful
This engine is ready to use right away, but already starts dropping framerate at over 1000 units which are not very active.
Con Tier-based servers with certain lockdowns
Modd.io "tiers" all the games you create. The very basic tier, commonly called "Tier 1" is very limited and removes motivation to develop a game.
Con You'll have to learn a new programming language
This engine has it's own IDE with a drag and drop style programming language. It does take a good 2 hours to get familiar with the API..
Con No lower level API access
You cannot access lower-level APIs through this engine, such as the renderer.
Con No single player support
All games in modd.io must support multi-player game mode.
Con Limited customizability
Modd.io is designed to be good at making "specific" kind of multiplayer games. Its strength unleashes if you don't care too much about the specifics in UI. For example, if you wanted to make a casual death match game, it is extremely easy to make it using modd.io. However, if you want to create a puzzle game with a unique UI, it becomes very time consuming.
Con No 3D support
This engine is limited to 2D only.
