Best Framework for RPG/RTS Platform Dev?

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Best Framework for RPG/RTS Platform Dev?

Just starting off on iPhone development and I'm looking for some input as to the best platform/framework upon which to build at the moment. I've looked at various options a year or so ago such as cocos2d, unity, and others, however I'm looking for some more current input from those in the trenches.

I am starting on an RTS Diablo-esque game and would like to understand what the highest recommendations at the moment may be with the most robust APIs, etc. for iPhone/iPad development. In addition, as a plus but not required, it would be nice to understand how portable the platform would be to the desktop. Bonus++: portable to other mobile devices?

Thanks in advance for any input!

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Cocos2D because you can incorporate Tiled map editor into your game making RPG/RTS design (relatively) easy. But, that's just my opinion you can do it however you want technically. And just going to the site now it seems they have released a version of Cocos2d that will work on the Mac too.

thyrgle 2010-09-03 00:49:03

There is also a cocos2d port for android. I don't know if it has feature parity yet.

Colin Gislason 2010-09-03 15:25:21

Very good remarks, thanks for the updates on cocos2d. Are there any readily integrateable 3D libs that tie in nicely with cocos2d, or would the stock opengl implementation from  work out best when tying in some 3D to an app?

ylluminate 2010-09-03 17:16:15

@ylluminate: I do not know much about 3D. I would go with the OpenGL ES route for it... but others have tried Unity and stuff. I don't think there is any easy way to port 3D into Cocos2D without trying to do stuff like OpenGL ES (hence it's cocos*2d* not cocos3d).

thyrgle 2010-09-03 19:43:38

@thyrgle: Right, that is what I fear. I am, though, wondering about taking a c or c++ lib and porting it over to interface with cocos2d. It seems that perhaps that might facilitate proper integration and allow for a cocos2d+3d ability. Not sure how necessary it would be at this time, but it seems interesting nonetheless.

ylluminate 2010-09-04 03:27:44

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