"Xianxiadao" is officially launched on WeChat Cocos2d-JS helps heavyweight mobile games

At the 2014 Cocos Spring Developer Conference, Chukong Technology announced that its Cocos 2d-html5 and Cocos 2d-JSB engines were officially merged into a new engine product: Cocos 2d-JS. Cocos 2d-JS seamlessly combines the rapid prototyping capabilities of Cocos 2d-html5 and the native high performance of Cocos 2d-x. Its mature and reliable quality has won the trust and support of many major game companies at home and abroad, and has created a number of heavyweight games with monthly revenues exceeding 10 million yuan.

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Recently, the turn-based PRG "Xianxiadao", developed by Cocos 2d-JS engine and exclusively represented by Tencent, officially launched a grand public beta. This classic transplant developed with Cocos 2d-JS is eye-catching and has rich playable elements: swordplay, skill release, and full-screen big moves are delicately portrayed; micro-control medium-level game production, multiple challenge modes, rich equipment partner system, huge turn-based main storyline, arena, team play, dragon treasure box and other rich play methods.

Cocos 2d-JS masterpiece "Xianxiadao" is launched on WeChat

As for why Cocos 2d-JS was chosen to build this heavyweight mobile game, Chen Jian, the lead programmer of "Xianxia Dao", gave a detailed answer: "Cocos 2d-JS engine uses JS as the main development language, which makes it possible for multiple platforms to share a code and quickly develop games. Traditional Cocos 2d-x uses C++. Although it can also be cross-platform, the learning cost of C++ is extremely high. It is not easy to write and maintain code, and it is prone to problems such as memory leaks. JS is easier to learn and use than C++, and the scripting language is also more convenient to write than C++."

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Cocos 2d-JS code can be run directly in the browser, greatly improving the team's work efficiency. Chen Jian spoke highly of this, "We have developed a supporting system for this feature. The team's developers can run and debug the "Xianxia Dao" Cocos 2d-JS code directly in Chrome. After writing, it is automatically packaged through the packaging server, and others can directly install and run it on the mobile phone. The efficiency of development and testing has been greatly improved."

Chen Jian also praised the hot update function of Cocos 2d-JS. The "Xianxiadao" team even built a patch mechanism on the Cocos 2d-JS hot update support system, so Android players no longer need to update the version to see new features. It is not difficult to see that the deep expansion function and multi-platform compatibility of Cocos 2d-JS have become a strong booster for heavyweight mobile games.

Game giants widely recognize that star-level masterpieces emerge in an endless stream

In addition to the currently popular public beta "Xianxiadao", there are also numerous star-level masterpieces developed based on Cocos2d-JS that have been launched, covering a variety of popular mobile game themes:

The Three Kingdoms IP card RPG mobile game "Three Kingdoms Legend" launched by Hangzhou Bianfeng is built with Cocos 2d-JS and has obtained the exclusive genuine authorization of the board game "Three Kingdoms". The retention rate of the game on the second day of its launch was as high as 88%, and the turnover of the channel exceeded one million within 3 hours of its launch, showing its strong impact and vitality;

Almost all of Tuyou's chess and card game series were developed using Cocos 2d-JS, and have achieved excellent results: "Star Landlord" teamed up with the hit variety show "The Variety Show" to create the most hilarious "Landlord" game in history; "Village Chief Landlord" invited the famous host "Village Chief" Li Rui to join; other Cocos 2d-JS works include "Stand-Alone Mahjong", "Chinese Chess", "Sichuan Mahjong", etc., all of which are irresistible.

In addition, Big Fish Casino, the world's top-grossing gaming game, Transformers: Rise of the Titans, DeNA's million-dollar daily revenue game, 4399's annual blockbuster Journey to the West, Shanghai Youqi's Riot Games mobile game Running Man, etc. are all excellent Cocos 2d-JS cases. This excellent report card once again made the industry realize the unlimited potential of a mature engine.

Cocos 2d-JS's three major advantages open up new opportunities in the mobile game market

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Cocos2d-JS core developer Ling Huabin at the Cocos Developer Platform Salon

What are the unique advantages that make Cocos 2d-JS so popular among first-class developers and help it create many heavyweight products? At the first Cocos Developer Platform Theme Salon that just ended at the end of November, Ling Huabin, the core developer of Cocos 2d-JS, personally unveiled this veil for everyone.

First of all, Cocos 2d-JS has seamless cross-webpage and native platform capabilities, truly realizing "one set of code, full platform deployment". It supports Canvas and WebGL rendering on both desktop and mobile browsers, is fully compatible with HTML5 specifications, and has the features of click-to-play and rapid deployment, which benefit developers a lot. Secondly, Cocos 2d-JS uses a concise JavaScript style API, which greatly reduces the entry threshold, and achieves high-speed development and fast debugging through browser development tools. Finally, in terms of performance, Cocos 2d-JS has greatly improved the rendering efficiency of mobile browsers through the upcoming new renderer, and has built-in performance optimization tools such as object buffer pools.

As Cocos 2d-JS games are recognized and loved by a large number of players, more and more developers are joining the Cocos 2d-JS engine camp. With its powerful cross-platform support, minimalist API, excellent performance and many other features, Cocos 2d-JS is bringing unprecedented opportunities to developers. Let us look forward to more excellent Cocos 2d-JS works coming out!