# Introduction

cocos2d is a framework for building 2D games, demos, and other graphical/interactive applications.

cocos2d simplifies the game development in these areas:

  - Flow control: Manage the flow control between different scenes in an easy way

  - Sprites: Fast and easy sprites

  - Actions: Just tell sprites what you want them to do. Composable actions like move, rotate, scale, etc

  - Effects: Effects like waves, twirl, lens and much more

  - Particle Systems: Explosions, fireworks, meteors, smoke and more

  - Tiled maps: Support for rectangular and hexagonal tiled maps

  - Collision: Basic pure python support for collisions

  - Transitions: Move from scene to scene with style

  - Menus: Built in classes to create menus

  - Text rendering

  - Documentation: Programming Guide + API Reference + Lots of simple tests showing how to use it

  - Built-in python interpreter: For debugging purposes

  - BSD license: Just use it

  - pyglet based: No external dependencies

  - OpenGL based: Hardward accelerated