Very good question, it has now been pinned.

Cocos2d-x and Cocos2d-JS performance is pretty much on par so you don’t need to worry about that. First biggest thing is what language do you know and are comfortable with (C++ or JavaScript). Both of the have longevity but Cocos2d-JS has more longevity as it is JavaScript based and JavaScript is becoming more and more popular. Also Cocos2d-JS allows you to develop for the web, but on the flip side, Cocos2d-JS has nowhere near the same number of resources and this won’t change in the next year or so most likely so a lot of it will be down to you learning it from scratch.

Hope this helped.

I was in the same situation as you a few months ago. I was trying to decide where to start. My background is web development and so I was very comfortable with JavaScript. Therefore I started working with Cocos2d-JS and I’m happy with that choice. I’m well along making my first Cocos mobile game.

I felt like there is enough resources between these 3:

1. http://cocos.sonarlearning.co.uk/docs
2. http://www.sonarlearning.co.uk/coursepage.php?topic=game&course=cocos2d-js-v3
3. http://cocos2d-x.org/docs/tutorial/framework/html5/en

Hi, I new to cocos2d-x , I would like to know how to spawn a player (objects) in Tile Map(isometric z-order).  I have found some tutorial online https://www.raywenderlich.com/39113/cocos2d-x-tile-map-tutorial-part-1, the codes are very deprecated.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance

    auto map = TMXTiledMap::create("TileGameResources/iso4.tmx");

    //map->setPosition(Point((visibleSize.width) + origin.x, (visibleSize.height) + origin.y));

    map->setPosition(Vec2()+origin);

    float rX1 = visibleSize.width / map->getContentSize().width;

    float rY1 = visibleSize.height / map->getContentSize().height;

     map->setScaleX(rX1);

     map->setScaleY(rY1);

    this->addChild(map, 1, 99); // with a tag of '99'

    TMXObjectGroup *objectGroup = map->objectGroupNamed("Objects");

    if(objectGroup == NULL){

        CCLog("tile map has no objects object layer");

        return false;

    }

    map *spawnPoint = objectGroup->objectNamed("SpawnPoint");

    int x = ((CCString)*spawnPoint->valueForKey("x")).intValue();

    int y = ((CCString)*spawnPoint->valueForKey("y")).intValue();

    _player = new Sprite();

    _player->initWithFile("Player.png");

    _player->setPosition(ccp(x,y));

    this->addChild(_player);