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A2Engine vs Stencyl

A2Engine

a2engine.org

Stencyl

stencyl.com

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FigureA2EngineStencyl
Price from—$8.25/mo
Free plan—Yes
Free trial——
Open source——
Web—Yes
Windows—Yes
macOS—Yes
Linux—Yes
iOS—Yes
Android—Yes
Plans published03
Spec score · Game Engine Software6.7 (#92)8.9 (#9)
Free planYesYes
PurposeA2 is a simple, Unity-inspired, Lua-based 2D game engine with Box2D physics, designed for education at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.Stencyl is game creation software for making mobile, web, and desktop games without code.
Scripting languagesLuaHaxe
Source code modelclosed_sourceopen_source

Plans

A2Engine

No plans published.

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Stencyl

  • Indie$99 a year
  • Studio$199 a year
  • StarterFree

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In their own words

A2Engine

A2Engine has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.

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Stencyl

Stencyl is game creation software for making mobile, web, and desktop games with visual logic or custom code. Its drag-and-drop designer uses snapping blocks and includes hundreds of ready-to-use blocks. Creators can also make and share blocks, import libraries, extend the engine with code, and write Haxe classes that work with block-based Behaviors. The Scene Designer provides selection, zooming, grid-snapping, and flood fill; the Actor Editor adjusts appearance, behaviors, and physical properties. Stencyl targets iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux, and HTML5. The free Starter edition publishes HTML5 games and lets users test games on paid target platforms, but cannot publish desktop, iOS, or Android games and displays Stencyl branding. Indie costs $99 a year and adds web and desktop publishing without watermarks. Studio costs $199 a year and includes publishing to iOS and Android, ads, leaderboards, in-app purchases, and third-party plugins. Publishing iOS games to the App Store requires an active Apple developer license and a Mac. Stencyl says it collects no royalties on games.

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