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Best Tools for 2D Fighter

Started by egruntz Oct 9, 2014 at 3:30 AM 3 replies 2.1k views

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Oct 9, 2014 at 3:30 AM

Hey everyone,

Did some searching around and still couldn't find much help for the question I have: What's the best engine out there for creating a 2D fighter? I'm aware of MUGEN and other engines, but I'm interested in control of my mechanics rather simple character generators. I know JavaScript, HTML, and CSS rather well, and I know just a tad of C#, although I imagine I could refresh on that language within a week. Are there any engines that comes to mind when you consider those languages?

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I'm the sole programmer. Will need loads of help.

I know this is a rather broad question, so I'm sorry if it's hard to answer. Just looking for starting points.

I was reccommended XNA, but I was also told to avoid XNA because "it's dead."

I was reccommended Unity, but I was also told that Unity is overkill for the scope of my intended game.

I keep getting suggested one thing and then warned about that exact suggestion sometime after. I'm starting to get really confused and discouraged.

Thank you for whatever help you can offer me!

HyperV

Oct 9, 2014 at 1:38 PM

First have you googled this? because if i google HTML5 game dev tools i immediately found something for that http://www.html5gamedevelopment.com/html5-tools?page=2.

XNA is not dead it's now Monogame it's still being used by many commercial game developers.

Unity is not overkill it supports 2D game development very well.

HyperV

emcconnell

Oct 9, 2014 at 5:40 PM

I wrote a 2d fighter engine in SDL when I was in grad. school. If I had to do it again I'd probably choose Cocos2dx for the cross platform abilities. Programming a fighting game engine is easy in OO languages. Netcode for fighting games is another story...

Both of those are C++ based, though I think SDL and Cocos2dx may support other languages. Either way, the most important thing in traditional fighting games is 100% consistent frame rate. Honestly out of everything you listed I'd go Unity. It's very easy and will do a lot of the heavy lifting.

BeerNutts

Oct 9, 2014 at 6:14 PM

If you already know JS and HTML5, I'd suggest you check out phaser (It's a HTML5/JS game framework) and just use it to create your game. IMO, a browser-based game is great, simply because anyone can play it from anywhere.

kburkhart84

Oct 9, 2014 at 9:20 PM

Unity, though "overkill" in that it can do so much more, would probably work fine for the project. The free version would also be more than enough, even if you wanted to port it later.

GMStudio(Game Maker's new version) would probably be much better for this specific job, and it has a nice free version too. But, the free version doesn't do everything like Unity's free version. Also, the capabilities for 3d are much less than Unity's so if you wanted to try to use the software later for a 3d game it wouldn't be as worth your time, rather Unity would be better time spent if you look at it like that. But for JUST this single job, if the free version is enough, or if you are willing to pay for the professional version, GMStudio is one of the best tools for the job. And though not in the free version, it does export to HTML5.

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