What Is Cocos Studio?

Cocos Studio is a tool to help speed up the process of game development. It was developed by Chukong who brought us Cocos2d-x. We recommend you have a strong foundation in C++, JavaScript or Lua and Cocos2d-x or Cocos2d-JS before using Cocos Studio as though it simplifies a lot of stuff you will still need to interact with code.

Cocos Studio has 4 main components to aid the process:

UI editor for UI graphic artists

The UI was designed to serve its only purpose: create UI for games.
Its simple and intuitive interface allows graphic artists to focus on their expertise, without worrying about other aspects such as programming.

Animation editor for graphic artists

The Animation editor was designed to feel like Adobe Flash, which makes graphic artists feel right at home.
The Animation editor brings skeletal animation to Cocos2d-x.

Number cruncher for game data designers

The data Cruncher imports excel tables and converts the data into a format readable by cocos2d-x, which can also be used as a component for the Scene editor.

Scene editor for game designers

The scene editor pieces all the assets made by the UI editor, Animation editor, and the Data Cruncher into a game scene, it can then simulate the game inside the editor.
The scene editor also supports many assets made from third party editors such as particle designer, tiled etc.

Cocos Studio can be downloaded using the following link:
http://www.cocos2d-x.org/download

At the time of writing this on 17th February 2015 Cocos Studio was bundled with the Cocos Framework.