OpenQuick is an open source framework for Rapid Application Development (RAD) of 2D games and apps.
It provides high-level Lua APIs on top of the following components:
- Cocos2d-x
- Box2D
- sqlite3 (luasqlite.luaforge.net)
- json (json.luaforge.net)
OpenQuick uses the version of Box2D contained within the Cocos2d-x distribution. It also uses the versions of Lua (5.2) and tolua++ contained with the Cocos2d-x distribution. At the time of writing, OpenQuick is tested against Cocos2d-x cocos2d-2.0-x-2.0.4 (Nov 2012).
If you are using OpenQuick WITH Marmalade Quick, then the runtime OS abstraction you are using will be Marmalade's - i.e. you are using the Marmalade back-end for Cocos2d-x (proj.marmalade) - you are NOT using any of the other Cocos2d-x back-ends.
If you are using OpenQuick WITHOUT Marmalade Quick, then the runtime OS abstraction you are using will be Cocos2d-x's - i.e. you are using the Cocos2d-x platform back-ends, such as proj.win32.
##Working with GitHub vs Marmalade SDK
OpenQuick is distributed as source both inside the Marmalade SDK (in modules/third_party/openquick) and on github (at https://github.com/marmalade/OpenQuick/)
The SDK and GitHub versions are not synced by any build tools currently; it relies on Marmalade engineers manually syncing between GitHub and perforce versions of the repository. If you want to make changes to OpenQuick and use it with Marmalade, please fork the repo and submit pull requests for any changes you make.
To pick up your github version instead of the SDK one, you can edit the subprojects list in quick/quick.mkf to include path/to/openquick/proj.marmalade/openquick.mkf instead of ../modules/third_party/openquick/proj.marmalade/openquick.mkf
OpenQuick is provided under the MIT license:
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The following components are redistributed under their respective licenses:
- sqlite3 (luasqlite.luaforge.net)
- json (json.luaforge.net)
There are no components within OpenQuick that place copy-left restrictions on apps you create using the framework.
The documentation for Marmalade Quick can be found here.
Support for Marmalade Quick can be found here.
Developers using OpenQuick outside of Marmalade Quick are welcome to use these resources, but should be aware that OpenQuick is a subset of Marmalade Quick; if posting on the forums, make it clear in what context you are using OpenQuick.