Monkey X vs Oxygine

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.

Most interesting is ability to build C++ Oxygine application for Web via Emscripten. So you write C++ code and it will compile it to HTML5/JS.

All of them available publicly at github.

• oxygine-movie for playing Theora movies with alpha channel
• oxygine-sound player for ogg sound/music with streaming
• oxygine-freetype library
• oxygine-billing for in-app-purchases on Android/iOS
• oxygine-spine for playing Spine animations
• oxygine-magicparticles for playing particles made with MagicParticles

If you are familiar with ActionScript3/Flash API, then you will find it easy to begin working in Oxygine. Oxygine is much like Flash in C++, as its Event Handling model is very close to that of ActionScript 3 and SceneGraph.

Oxygine is written in C++. It provides easy to use API, which is designed with "do more with less code" philosophy. It uses a managed scenegraph system that takes care of rendering and updates, and provides ability to extend with custom rendering and updates.

Oxygine is a free framework that works on OS X, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, HTML5. It's licensed under MIT with source code available on GitHub.

It's very rare to experience bugs with Oxygine.

Using oxygine-movie extension for Oxygine you could play in your game any videos encoded with Theora codec.
You movie could have alpha channel and used as simple sprite instead of classic spreadsheet animations.