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Resources for game development on haxe

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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.

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Game engines
Low-level Engine
Physics
Architecture
Networking
Serialization and storage
Games
Miscellaneous
Articles
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Game engines

Those are Haxe 4 compatible game engines

Armory (Kha) (⭐2.9k) - An open-source 3D game engine with full Blender integration (Web, Mobile, Desktop, Consoles).
Away3D (⭐187) - An open source, real-time 3D engine for OpenFL (Web, Mobile, Desktop).
ceramic (⭐211) - Cross-platform 2D framework (Web, Mobile, Desktop, Unity).
HaxeFlixel (OpenFL) (⭐1.8k) - Free, cross-platform 2D game engine powered by OpenFL (Web, Mobile, Desktop, Consoles).
Haxegon (OpenFL) (⭐192) - A programming library for beginners. Powered by OpenFL and Starling (Web, Mobile, Desktop, Consoles).
Heaps (⭐3k) - High Performance Game Framework (Web, Mobile, Desktop, Consoles).
hxdefold (⭐177) - Haxe/Lua externs for Defold game engine (Web, Mobile, Desktop).
OpenFL (⭐1.8k) - Interactive game and app development library (Web, Mobile, Desktop, Consoles).
Starling (⭐230) - The "Cross-Platform Game Engine", a popular Stage3D framework (Web, Mobile, Desktop).
Stencyl (OpenFL) (⭐181) - Create Flash, HTML5, iOS, Android, and desktop games with no code (Mobile, Desktop).
unreal.hx (⭐412) - Haxe Integration for Unreal (Web, Mobile, Desktop, Consoles).
HxGodot (Godot 4.0) (⭐185) - A Haxe GDExtension for Godot 4 (Web, Mobile, Desktop, Consoles).

Low-level Engine

Kha (⭐1.4k) - Ultra-portable, high performance, open source multimedia framework (Web, Mobile, Desktop, Consoles).
Lime (⭐722) - A flexible, lightweight layer for Haxe cross-platform developers (Web, Mobile, Desktop).
linc_glfw (⭐16) - Desktop - GLFW binding (multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES and Vulkan) (Desktop).
NME (⭐470) - A cross-platform native backend (Web, Mobile, Desktop).
3DSHaxe (⭐27) - Make 3ds homebrew! (3DS).

Physics

echo (⭐138) - Simple Physics Library.
haxebullet (⭐93) - Bullet 3D Physics.
nape-haxe4 (⭐43) - Physics Engine (the original Haxe3 version of nape can be found here (⭐542)).

Architecture

IoC == Inversion of Control  
EC == Entity Component  
ECS == Entity-Component-System
FSM == Finite State Machine
MVC == Model View Controller

awe6 (⭐81) - IoC, EC - The inverted game framework, is a development tool focused on Future Proofing.
ecx (⭐51) - ECS - An Entity Component System framework.
hexMachina (⭐7) - MVC - A powerful multi-modular MVC framework.
OSIS (⭐42) - ECS - Entity Component System architecture with networking support.

Networking

Anette (⭐37) - Simple network library (no UDP).
colyseus-hx (⭐69) - Multiplayer Game Client.
haxe-simple-peer (js) (⭐4) - Haxe externs for simple-peer.
hxWebSockets (⭐77) - Websockets for all platforms.
Built-in - Heaps, OpenFL (HaxeFlixel & co), Kha (Armory).

Serialization and storage

Bits (⭐22) - Binary bit flags with unlimited amount of bits.
CastleDB (⭐517) - A structured static database easing collaboration.
hxbit (⭐144) - A binary serialization and network synchronization library.
PODStream (⭐21) - 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.

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Miscellaneous

3rd party API

SteamWrap (⭐96) - Native extension for the SteamAPI.
newgrounds - Newgrounds API.
hxgamejolt-api (⭐11) - Haxe bindings for GameJolt API.

AI

goap - Goal-oriented action planner for AI.

Animation

spine-hx (⭐54) - Spine runtime automatically converted from the official Java/libgdx runtime.
HaxeFlixel - Spine parser.
Heaps-Spine (⭐17) - Spine player for heaps.
heaps-aseprite (⭐25) - Load and render sprites and animations in Aseprite format.
openfl-aseprite (⭐15) - Load and render sprites and animations in Aseprite format.
openfl-spine (⭐16) - Render Spine animation in the OpenFL engine, rendering processing can be achieved throughSprite and Tilemap.
ase (⭐15) - File format reader/writer for .ase/.aseprite without external dependencies.
flxgif (⭐10) - Yagp's Gif Player for HaxeFlixel.

Audio

sfxr-hx (⭐5) - Pure haxe implementation of Sfxr.

Color manipulation

nxColor (⭐38) - Color manipulation library.

Collision

differ (⭐158) - A separation axis theorem collision library.

Computer Vision

Vision (⭐34) - Cross platform computer vision library.

Data structures

polygonal-ds (⭐341) - Data structures for games.

Dialogues

hxyarn (⭐5) - Parser and runner for Yarn dialogue files.

Editor

flixel-studio (⭐98) - In-game editor for HaxeFlixel.

Helpers

deepnightLibs (⭐215) - General gamedev purpose libs.

Localization

firetongue (⭐142) - A translation/localization framework.

Map parser

PyxelEdit Map Importer (⭐33) - Parser for maps generated by the editor PyxelEdit.
Heaps - Built-in parser for Tiled.
HaxeFlixel - Parser for Tiled & Ogmo.
LEd (⭐83) - 2D level editor with a typed compile time loader.
TiledHX (⭐8) - A comprehensive modern Tiled parser.

Math helpers

hxmath (⭐88) - A game-oriented math library.
haxe-glm (⭐44) - A toolset for using 2, 3, and 4 dimensional vectors and matrices, as well as quaternions.
hx-vector2d (⭐12) - Worlds most complete Vector2d / Point class. With operator overloading.

Modding

polymod (⭐147) - An atomic modding framework for games/apps.

Particles

Sparkler (⭐15) - Modular Particle System.

Monetization

extension-iap (⭐8) - Provides an access to in-app purchases (iOS) and in-app billing (Android) for OpenFL projects using a common API. Fork of this (⭐71).

Pathfinding

pathfinder (⭐28) - Easy A* pathfinding algorithm.
astar - Versatile framework-agnostic A-star solver Library.

Procedural generation

Dungeon builder (⭐64) - A set of dungeon generation algorithm (works w/ hx4 w/ minor changes).

Shaders

HGSL (⭐131) - Haxe to GL Shading Language.
parasol (⭐14) - HaxeFlixel library of shaders.

Sprite

haxe-aseprite (⭐20) - Parser for .ase and .aseprite files.

Texture Packer

hxpk (⭐46) - Port of the libGDX Texture Packer.

Tweening

actuate (⭐150) - A flexible, fast "tween" library.
YATL (⭐16) - Yet Another (Haxe) Tweening Library.
TweenX/TweenXCore (⭐89) - Tween library.

UI

domkit (⭐77) - CSS Components based strictly typed UI framework.
flixel-ui (⭐158) - 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 (⭐104) - Adds native video playback on HaxeFlixel and OpenFL.