About my Cocos2d-x game project

I am working on a new project using Cocos2d-x. There are some notes about the development.

Reasons why using Cocos2d-x:

• This is a cross-platform engine; easy to port to Android and iOS with one set of Source.
• It has a lots of documents, samples, books and supports
• Some team in our company use it

The parts of Cocos being used:

• Memory Management (CCObject has retain/release behaviour like objective-c)
• String Utility
• File Utility
• BatchSpriteNode
• GUI Nodes uisng Cocos buidler
• Particle Systems
• HTTP
• Animation Action Handling
• Screen Auto-fit
• GUI Components
• Zip/Unzip support
• Audio Support

The parts implemented by ourselves:

• Sprite Rendering with skin support (because need to integrate with our existing data)
• Map Rendering (also need to integrate with the existing data)
• Protocol decoding
• In-game controls
• Special UI Components
• Full View
• Popup View
• Tab view
• RichText Label
• RichText Input

The parts using the 3rd parties:

• Game Content Patching (using vcdiff protocol and xdelta)
• Thread (using Poco::Thread)
• Socket (using Poco::Network)
• A* Path finding
• Unit Testing (using UnitTest++, this is really good)

The tools have used:

• In house
• Sprite and Animation Editor
• 2D Tile Map Editor
• Game Event Editor 
• 3rd parties
• Cocosbuilder

The things I want to try:

• Sprite and Animation of cocos2d
• Texture packer
• Run the Unit Test without starting the simulator
• Profiling Tools
• Other texture formats: ETC, PVRTC

(will update if there are something new!!)