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Amethyst vs Corona SDK: What are the differences?

Amethyst: Data-oriented and data-driven game engine written in Rust. Uses gfx-rs to render graphics with OpenGL, and soon Vulkan and Metal. It is meant to be used for 2D and 3D, with various utilities for both types of games; Corona SDK: Cross-platform development platform for 2D apps and games. It is a cross-platform framework ideal for rapidly creating apps and games for mobile devices and desktop systems. It builds rich mobile apps for iOS, Android, Kindle and Nook. Build high quality mobile apps in a fraction of the time.

Amethyst and Corona SDK can be primarily classified as "Game Development" tools.

Some of the features offered by Amethyst are:

  • High Performance
  • Built for 2D and 3D
  • Uses all CPU cores to run internals and logic

On the other hand, Corona SDK provides the following key features:

  • Call any native library
  • Cross-platform
  • Completely free
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      Also potentially build for OS Apple
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      Lua code better than java code

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    Cons of Amethyst
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        Not Very popular
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        Very Poor System

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      What is Amethyst?

      Uses gfx-rs to render graphics with OpenGL, and soon Vulkan and Metal. It is meant to be used for 2D and 3D, with various utilities for both types of games.

      What is Corona SDK?

      It is a cross-platform framework ideal for rapidly creating apps and games for mobile devices and desktop systems. It builds rich mobile apps for iOS, Android, Kindle and Nook. Build high quality mobile apps in a fraction of the time.

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