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Add to SafariWhen comparing Twine vs AndEngine, the Slant community recommends Twine for most people. In the question“What are the best 2D game engines?” Twine is ranked 38th while AndEngine is ranked 101st. The most important reason people chose Twine is:
The basics are very easy to grasp, and you can have a basic story up in minutes.
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Pros
Pro Easy to understand
The basics are very easy to grasp, and you can have a basic story up in minutes.
Pro Free for commercial projects
Twine is based on a GPL licence. You are free to download, modify and publish derivatives - even commercially.
Pro Functionality can be extended
AndEngine has extensions that can add additional functionality to the engine.
Cons
Con Limited to interactive fiction
Twine is specialized to decision-based interactive fiction. Under the hood, a Twine game is just a flowchart for page transitions; the only way to add more complex behavior is to code it from scratch in JavaScript.
Con Abandoned
No work on the engine has been done since 2013.
Con Doesn't support current SDK
Only works on older SDK that isn't even supported anymore by google or Android Studio.
Con Poorly documented
Documentation is severely lacking.
