Starling vs Monkey X

Starling is just 12k lines of code and doesn't try to do everything — but what it does, as efficient as possible.

With Feathers, you can easily add great user interfaces to your games — or even create business apps with Starling.

Starling is available for free with code available on GitHub.

Forum is always active with knowledgeable developers and with lot of inside info, and post mortems.

With UI, you can design it in Flash Professional (powerful 2D editor), export to swf file, use GAF convert swf file to gaf file, finnally, load gaf file to Starling. GAF can convert a lot of file swf to one atlas. Alway use same resource in design files (fla) to optimize atlas size, avoid duplicate asset in atlas.

You can use flash to create animation for starling.

Let the GPU do the rendering, the CPU has more important tasks to do.

It can be exported to web flash player, iOS, Android, Windows, and OS X

Using AIR's native extensions any native code that can be written can be run and used by the game engine.

New features are added regularly.

Starling can run more animated display objects than Unity2D and many others frameworks at 60 fps.

Developers can make native calls directly from Monkey code. This allows access to any native functionality and platform-specific features.

You are not restricted only to the modules you get from the official release. You can build your own stuff. Even build your own "app" module. It feels limitless. In comparison with other cross platform solutions, you actually get the translated source code and you can play with it if you want.

Monkey X has a selection of great built-in modules.

• Graphics
• Audio
• Input
• Data and Filesystems
• Networking
• Math
• Text and Strings
• Collections
• Online Services

The language gives you the possibility to build your own targets. You are not limited to the targets officially supported.

All target platforms for a fair one off license fee.

With it's Object orientation and clean syntax its a brilliant language to learn if you have never done any programming before and yet still has all the power it needs to make full games and apps.

Monkey X uses a custom programming language (called Monkey) for all its scripting needs. Monkey is rather easy to learn, it's object-oriented which will help most programmers with understanding it. It's also statically typed and uses a garbage collector, helping to avoid manual memory management.

The entirety of the base-language itself is open source. Commercial modules such as Mojo for non-free platforms cost a one-time fee. Though Mojo is not free for all targets, the targets for these platforms are, meaning it is possible to implement other frameworks for these targets.

The Desktop (GLFW and C++ based) and HTML5 implementations of Mojo are currently free and open source.

The language's development is completely public, and is managed via GitHub.

The free version of Monkey X lets you compile to HTML5 or Desktop (GLFW). Other platforms such as iOS, Android (and OUYA), XNA, Flash and Windows 8 (Phone) require the paid version of Monkey X Pro.

Monkey X is a cross-platform game engine. It allows developers to run the same code on multiple platforms, including iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, Flash, Windows, Mac OS and Linux.

The development environment supports Windows, OS X, and Linux.

Unlike other multi-platform engines (Unity3D, Corona, etc), Monkey-X games do not run explicitly in their own virtual machines. Your code is translated into the native languages of each target platform, and then compiled as a native executable. However, just as native games, on platforms such as Android (Currently), and HTML5, games will be ran through the targeted platform's usual VM(s). That being said, you won't be dealing with a proprietary virtual machine, so you won't experience any real overhead when compared to a native game.

The Mark Sibly Factor denotes that a programming language will be easy to learn, fun to learn and allow any age group ( within Cognitive Reason ) to program games and great games. The Mark Sibly Factor denotes also that the games programming language you purchase will be backed by decades of compiler programming experience, game making tool programming and finally a Game Programming Language that kicks Ass.

With the free version of Monkey you are still able to create commercial HTML5 and Desktop games.

The community has created essential modules:

• Spine for animations
• Box2D and Chipmunk for physics
• Game frameworks such as Ignition, fantomEngine, and Flixel
• Diddy for lots of extra functionality
• FontMachine for custom bitmap fonts
• MiniB3D for 3D gaming
• And several others...

Helpful community for beginners is available both in english and russian.

Drawing commands are easier to read and edit than is manipulating scene graphs. You can immediately see in your code what's going to be drawn and in what order. Transformations are a no-brainer too.

Monkey X includes over 50 examples ranging from complete sample games to demos of single features.

MonkeyX is an object-oriented dialect of BASIC that's easy, clean and powerful.