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Genome2D vs Yae

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When comparing Genome2D vs Yae, the Slant community recommends Genome2D for most people. In the question“What are the best 2D game engines?” Genome2D is ranked 47th while Yae is ranked 106th. The most important reason people chose Genome2D is:

It's the fastest gpu-based framework out there for flash. It's beautifully optimised. It has very low rendering latency, low level OpenGL calls that other tech simply cannot do (ie Unity) due to Stage3D, and thus can render a lot more data quicker

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What are the best 2D game engines?

Genome2D

Yae

Pros

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Lightning fast

Pro
Cross-platform mobile, desktop and web

Supports Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, iOS, Android, Web and native Flash.

And with the HTML5 export, it also potentially supports development for the Wii U :)

Pro
Haxe!

Haxe is a strictly typed programming language that saves development time but still compiles high performance executables, and can build for tons of different platforms (flash, c++, html5, java, c#, etc.)

Pro
Access to direct draw features

Has access to direct draw features so you can make you own rendering structures (scene graphs etc).

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Automatic dynamic batching

Automatically batch geometries with dynamic batching techniques (by using constant buffers).

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Component based architecture

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IDE

Ships with easy to use IDE created only for development in it

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Frequent updates

Updated weekly

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Cross-platform

Supports all major platforms

Windows
Mac
Linux
Android
iOS

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Multiple languages support

Supports writing games in both Lua and JavaScript and for advanced users it´s plugin system also supports Java.

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Cons

Con
Lacks documentation

The API documentation is minimal, there's not many tutorials and the ones that are there are very small and only cover the basics. If you want to learn how to properly use it, you have to ask the community or read the source code and figure it out.