MonoGame vs Blacksmith 2D

Support for iOS, Android, Mac OS X, Linux, Windows (both OpenGL and DirectX), Windows 8 Store, Windows Phone 8, PlayStation Mobile, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and the OUYA console with even more platforms on the way.

All the code is available to you ensuring you'll have the ability to make changes when you need to or even port to whole new platforms.

The framework implements the XNA 4 API, so games made in XNA can be ported to other platforms using this. This was the same API used by the Xbox Live Indie Games platform so there's lots of documentation online for it.

By leveraging C# and other .NET languages on Microsoft and Mono platforms you can write modern, fast, and reliable game code.

The community MonoGame has to offer is helpful and mature.

The performance on desktop platforms matches that of C++, but you still get all the pleasant features that C# has to offer.

Automatically detects changes and updates bitmap cache. Allows to gain even more performance on heavy scenes and runs smoothly on old devices.

All engine code is written in ES6, fully GCC typed, allowing to eliminate all dead code from your app.

Dirty flag tracks scene changes and avoids unnecessary calculations and context calls. If no changes were made to the scene since last frame, no rendering will be done. Battery efficient.

According to the tests on the Github page, the performance is better than in Phaser!

The source code is well commented and easy to understand.

Super small build size through dead code elimination. The best for playable ads and Facebook Instant Games.