Awesome Haxe Game Development
A curated list of game development resources for Haxe 4, a high level strictly typed programming language which is used to produce cross-platform native code.
Feel free to update it.
Contents
- Game engines
- Low-level Engine
- Physics
- Architecture
- Networking
- Serialization and storage
- Games
- Miscellaneous
- Articles
- Other haxe lists
Game engines
Those are Haxe 4 compatible game engines
- Armory (Kha) - An open-source 3D game engine with full Blender integration (
Web
,Mobile
,Desktop
,Consoles
). - Away3D - An open source, real-time 3D engine for OpenFL (
Web
,Mobile
,Desktop
). - ceramic - Cross-platform 2D framework (
Web
,Mobile
,Desktop
,Unity
). - HaxeFlixel (OpenFL) - Free, cross-platform 2D game engine powered by OpenFL (
Web
,Mobile
,Desktop
,Consoles
). - Haxegon (OpenFL) - A programming library for beginners. Powered by OpenFL and Starling (
Web
,Mobile
,Desktop
,Consoles
). - Heaps - High Performance Game Framework (
Web
,Mobile
,Desktop
,Consoles
). - hxdefold - Haxe/Lua externs for Defold game engine (
Web
,Mobile
,Desktop
). - OpenFL - Interactive game and app development library (
Web
,Mobile
,Desktop
,Consoles
). - Starling - The "Cross-Platform Game Engine", a popular Stage3D framework (
Web
,Mobile
,Desktop
). - Stencyl (OpenFL) - Create Flash, HTML5, iOS, Android, and desktop games with no code (
Mobile
,Desktop
). - unreal.hx - Haxe Integration for Unreal (
Web
,Mobile
,Desktop
,Consoles
). - HxGodot (Godot 4.0) - A Haxe GDExtension for Godot 4 (
Web
,Mobile
,Desktop
,Consoles
).
Low-level Engine
- Kha - Ultra-portable, high performance, open source multimedia framework (
Web
,Mobile
,Desktop
,Consoles
). - Lime - A flexible, lightweight layer for Haxe cross-platform developers (
Web
,Mobile
,Desktop
). - linc_glfw - Desktop - GLFW binding (multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES and Vulkan) (Desktop).
- NME - A cross-platform native backend (
Web
,Mobile
,Desktop
). - 3DSHaxe - Make 3ds homebrew! (
3DS
).
Physics
- echo - Simple Physics Library.
- haxebullet - Bullet 3D Physics.
- nape-haxe4 - Physics Engine (the original Haxe3 version of nape can be found here).
Architecture
IoC == Inversion of Control
EC == Entity Component
ECS == Entity-Component-System
FSM == Finite State Machine
MVC == Model View Controller
- awe6 -
IoC
,EC
- The inverted game framework, is a development tool focused on Future Proofing. - ecx -
ECS
- An Entity Component System framework. - hexMachina -
MVC
- A powerful multi-modular MVC framework. - OSIS -
ECS
- Entity Component System architecture with networking support.
Networking
- Anette - Simple network library (no UDP).
- colyseus-hx - Multiplayer Game Client.
- haxe-simple-peer (js) - Haxe externs for simple-peer.
- hxWebSockets - Websockets for all platforms.
- Built-in - Heaps, OpenFL (HaxeFlixel & co), Kha (Armory).
Serialization and storage
- Bits - Binary bit flags with unlimited amount of bits.
- CastleDB - A structured static database easing collaboration.
- hxbit - A binary serialization and network synchronization library.
- PODStream - Plain Old Data serializer.
Games
- Darksburg - Heaps -
Desktop
. - Dead Cells - Heaps -
Desktop
,Consoles
. - Defender's Quest - HaxeFlixel (OpenFL) -
Desktop
,Consoles
. - Defender's Quest 2 - HaxeFlixel (OpenFL) -
Desktop
. - Dicey Dungeons - Haxegon (OpenFL) -
Desktop
,Consoles
. - Evoland - Heaps -
Desktop
,Mobile
. - Northgard - Heaps -
Desktop
. - Papers, Please - OpenFL -
Desktop
,iOS
,PsVita
. - Pocket Kingdom - HaxePunk (OpenFL)-
Desktop
. - rymdkapsel - OpenFL -
Desktop
,Mobile
. - Spellbreak - unreal.hx -
PC
,PS
,Xbox
,Switch
. - The Westport Independent - Luxe -
Desktop
,Mobile
.
More showcase :
Miscellaneous
3rd party API
- SteamWrap - Native extension for the SteamAPI.
- newgrounds - Newgrounds API.
- hxgamejolt-api - Haxe bindings for GameJolt API.
AI
goap - Goal-oriented action planner for AI.
Animation
- spine-hx - Spine runtime automatically converted from the official Java/libgdx runtime.
- HaxeFlixel - Spine parser.
- Heaps-Spine - Spine player for heaps.
- heaps-aseprite - Load and render sprites and animations in Aseprite format.
- openfl-aseprite - Load and render sprites and animations in Aseprite format.
- openfl-spine - Render Spine animation in the OpenFL engine, rendering processing can be achieved throughSprite and Tilemap.
- ase - File format reader/writer for .ase/.aseprite without external dependencies.
- flxgif - Yagp's Gif Player for HaxeFlixel.
Audio
- sfxr-hx - Pure haxe implementation of Sfxr.
Color manipulation
- nxColor - Color manipulation library.
Collision
- differ - A separation axis theorem collision library.
Computer Vision
- Vision - Cross platform computer vision library.
Data structures
- polygonal-ds - Data structures for games.
Editor
- flixel-studio - In-game editor for HaxeFlixel.
Helpers
- deepnightLibs - General gamedev purpose libs. |Procedural generation|Dungeon builder - A set of dungeon generation algorithm (works w/ hx4 w/ minor changes).
Localization
- firetongue - A translation/localization framework.
Map parser
- PyxelEdit Map Importer - Parser for maps generated by the editor PyxelEdit.
- Heaps - Built-in parser for Tiled.
- HaxeFlixel - Parser for Tiled & Ogmo.
- LEd - 2D level editor with a typed compile time loader.
- TiledHX - A comprehensive modern Tiled parser.
Math helpers
- hxmath - A game-oriented math library.
- haxe-glm - A toolset for using 2, 3, and 4 dimensional vectors and matrices, as well as quaternions.
- hx-vector2d - Worlds most complete Vector2d / Point class. With operator overloading.
Modding
- polymod - An atomic modding framework for games/apps.
Particles
- Sparkler - Modular Particle System.
Monetization
- extension-iap - Provides an access to in-app purchases (iOS) and in-app billing (Android) for OpenFL projects using a common API. Fork of this.
Pathfinding
- pathfinder - Easy A* pathfinding algorithm.
- astar - Versatile framework-agnostic A-star solver Library.
Shaders
Sprite
- haxe-aseprite - Parser for .ase and .aseprite files.
Texture Packer
- hxpk - Port of the libGDX Texture Packer.
Tweening
- actuate - A flexible, fast "tween" library.
- YATL - Yet Another (Haxe) Tweening Library.
- TweenX/TweenXCore - Tween library.
UI
- domkit - CSS Components based strictly typed UI framework.
- flixel-ui - GUI library for HaxeFlixel.
- HaxeUI - UI library with multiple framework backends (HTML5, Kha, OpenFL, PixiJS, WxWidgets, and a number of others as works in progress).
- Feathers UI - Cross-platform graphical user interface components for creative frontend projects.
Video
- hxCodec - Adds native video playback on HaxeFlixel and OpenFL.
Articles
- Flash is dead, long live OpenFL!
- Flash is gone, what now?
- How I wrote my own 3D game engine and shipped a game with it in 20 months
- Building 42 games within a yearโโโInsane game development
- Porting to console via Unity