Indivour's Scrawl

So I recently found that my previous post has been getting comparatively higher hits. Since the post is a bit old and Cocos Creator has since become stable, I think it's about time to write an updated post with the comparisons. This time however, I'll give a verdict straight away first. If you want to create a 2D Game, then... (1) Unity: Choose Unity if you have all or most of the below Already have a Unity License (or are willing to make do with Free version) Have good experience with Unity and don't want to learn a new platform all over again. Not comfortable with JavaScript (well it's there in Unity too. but you have other choices as well) Are not sure if your project is going to end up as a 2D game or 3D game (yeah, that happens!). Paying for Plugins/Additional OS Platforms etc. is not an issue. Around 10-15 MB addition to Build size doesn't affect your Target Audience. You want to support Consoles as well as Mobiles for your game. (2) Cocos Cr

I was trying to implement the Local Notification system in my upcoming Cocos2DX CPP game. I tried to look up for existing solutions and easily found one on Github. It supported both iOS and Android platforms. https://github.com/kobakei/CCLocalNotification Everything was awesome, except for the fact that the project was like 3 Years old, and a lot of water had passed since then. So someone had had this outdated linking issue and found a solution to it. http://discuss.cocos2d-x.org/t/cocos2d-x-local-notification/19192 Where a developer Elrinth , thankfully put up the fixed code. Linked here: http://pastebin.com/fXHTdXhZ Everything was awesome again, except for the fact that the response was again 1 year old (at the time of writing this). So when I compiled the code, I got the following error:  Error: package android.support.v4.app does not exist  Awesome! So the elusive quest for solution began again. The search was a bit annoying because most of the solutions were