Moai is a development and deployment platform designed for the creation of mobile games on

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and Android smartphones. The Moai platform consists of Moai SDK, an open source game engine, and Moai Cloud, a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) for the hosting and deployment of game services. Moai developers use

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and OpenGL, to build mobile games that span smartphones and cloud. Several commercial games have been built with Moai, including '' Crimson: Steam Pirates'', '' Invisible, Inc.'', and ''

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''. Moai integrates third-party game analytics and monetization services such as Apsalar and Tapjoy.

History

A public beta of Moai was launched in July 2011. The first Moai game to ship was Crimson: Steam Pirates, developed by

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and published by Bungie Aerospace in September 2011. The 1.0 release of Moai was announced in March 2012.. As of 2017, the platform is no longer supported.

Notable games

The following games use Moai. * '' Crimson: Steam Pirates''.. * ''

(Double Fine Adventure)''. * '' Spacebase DF-9''. * '' The Moron Test 2'' * ''Wolf Toss''. * Lost in Paradise * '' Invisible, Inc.'' * '' The Franz Kafka Videogame'' *'' Eastward''

References

External links

* {{Video game engines 2011 software Cloud platforms Free game engines Lua (programming language)-scriptable game engines Video game engines