Unity and Unreal Engine are popular game development tools, with Unity used by 47% of developers as either their primary or secondary tool. Corona SDK has been used by over 300,000 mobile game developers primarily for 2D games. Cocos2D is a free and open source 2D game engine that remains popular for mobile game development.

1. The Top Tools for Mobile
Game Development

2. Introduction:
Today 29% of games developers build their apps without using a third party
engine. They either use their own engines or build everything from scratch.
The large game studios today build their own engines and tools to create
their own work processes. However it is not suitable for smaller mobile game
development studios and developers to build their own tools. These smaller
developers use some popular tools that we would cover in this presentation.

3. Unity
Among all the mobile development tools, Unity is one of the most successful
ones. As per some recent studies around 47% of developers use Unity for
their projects while 30% use it as a primary development tool. Unity has 45%
share of full feature game engine market that is nearly three times of their
closest competitor.

4. Unreal Engine 4
This tool is created and developed by Epic games. It is a powerful tool that is
used for mobile game development. It consists of high end technologies that
are to be used in Direct X11 computers but it can also be used on Nvidia
Tegra mobile processors. Even though the basic purpose of this tool is to
create graphics for complex games, it can also be use for smaller games and
programs.

5. Corona SDK
More than 300000 mobile game developers have used this special cross
platform toolkit. The most programmers use it for creating 2D games while it
can also be used for other smartphone apps.

6. Cocos2D
As the name says, it is a 2D games engine. The tool has originated at the
same time as iPhone SDK and then quickly switched to objective-C. The
program in recent years has only increase in popularity as it is the best free
open source option available.

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