# 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
  - 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