BUILD | TOOLS // MOBILE Mobile essentials
You’ve got to be in it to win it. And to win it in today’s market, you’ve got to be on mobile. Global successes such as Candy Crush Saga and Puzzle & Dragons have helped push gaming even further into the mainstream. To help you reaching these lofty heights, Aaron Lee has assembled Develop’s first guide to app and mobile games development tools
Note: All of the prices listed in this article refer to the cost of a single licence per seat/developer, annually, unless stated otherwise. Where we were unable to find UK licence prices, we have estimated conversion prices
engines and mobile dev packages MARMALADE | USED IN: Draw Something, Plants vs Zombies, Signal to the Stars, Talisman Prologue, Vector
MARMALADE SDK IS billed as the fastest way to build cross-platform C++ games. It enables you to open Xcode or Visual Studio projects and compile them for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry 10, Tizen, Mac and Windows desktops from a single Marmalade project file. In 2013, the firm launched two significant supplements to its flagship SDK, which it feels has helped to serve the needs of Marmalade users better. With Marmalade Juice, a cross-platform SDK for Objective-C, you can open your Objective-C code inside Marmalade, fine tune platform-specific features and then compile it for Android and beyond from a single Marmalade project file. And a little code goes a long way with Marmalade Quick, an acceleration tool with a fast, flexible and open environment. Quick is a Lua-based 2D RAD tool for cross-platform development,
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and was used to launch Marmalade’s first in-house game, Signal to the Stars, to four app stores at once. HTML5 is also catered for with Web Marmalade for speeding up web development with native performance. Marmalade CEO Harvey Elliott says: “By bundling premium partner plug-ins into Marmalade 7 for in-app purchasing, advertising, analytics, monetisation, and other services, we’re providing a package of tools designed to get smaller and indie Marmalade game developers up and running quicker, as well as helping them to generate revenues from their apps by providing the best tools available.” Marmalade SDK is priced from £379 ($500)
per year (Indie licence), and comes with Marmalade C++, Marmalade Quick and Web Marmalade included for free. Marmalade Juice is available upon application.
www.madewithmarmalade.com
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