Cocos Creator For Mac

The open source Cocos2d-x game framework has been developed in C++ and offers support for developing games or apps while also integrating JavaScript or Lua programming.

The Cocos Creator is a development environment that incorporates a game engine which relies on the Cocos2d-x framework and delivers support for creating animations, managing assets, debugging, and so on.

To access the Cocos Creator user interface, you need to provide your Cocos developer credentials: you get to sign up for an account free of charge.

Worth mentioning is that the Cocos web app is available in Japanese only, but you don’t have to interact with the service in the web browser and the Cocos Creator app sports a full English localization.

The Cocos Creator app comes with a Dashboard panel where you can manage your projects and navigate to the available online documentation (available in English). Besides the complete user manual, you also get access to Cocos Creator tutorials and examples.

The Cocos Creator editing area offers you the possibility to browse your project’s content or switch to the simulator mode that compiles the project, displays the output messages in the console panel, and launches a separate panel where you get to visualize the scene.

Cocos Creator comes with an assets manager and enables you to quickly review the nodes tree, while the far-reaching properties panel associated with each component allows you to customize their appearance or behavior.

The Cocos Creator editor also integrates a Timeline panel where you can quickly animate elements included in your scenes by relying on different properties. The built-in animation tool can deal with over-time changes and user defined properties.

Cocos Creator is a full-featured game development environment that integrates user-friendly assets management capabilities and helps the developer to edit the project’s content in a well-organized editor.

Within the Cocos Creator editor, you get to develop both 2D and 3D game scenes, expand their complexity by integrating JavaScripts, or just rely on the built-in animator tool.

The Cocos Creator projects can be exported to native apps, to the web, or to the Cocos Framework to make them available cross-platform.