A curated list of haxe game development resources.
- Game Engines
- Physics
- Architecture
- Game hosts API
- Networking
- Serialization and storage
- Games
- Miscellaneous
- Articles
- Other haxe lists
Those are haxe 4 compatible game engines.
| Engine | Target | Doc | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Armory (Kha) | Web, Mobile, Desktop, Consoles | Yes | Armory is an open-source 3D game engine with full Blender integration. |
| Away3D | Web, Mobile, Desktop | Yes | An open source, real-time 3D engine for OpenFL. |
| HaxeFlixel (OpenFL) | Web, Mobile, Desktop, Consoles | Yes | Free, cross-platform 2D game engine powered by OpenFL. |
| Haxegon (OpenFL) | Web, Mobile, Desktop, Consoles | Yes | A programming library for beginners. Powered by OpenFL and Starling. |
| Heaps | Web, Mobile, Desktop, Consoles | Yes | High Performance Game Framework. |
| hxdefold | Web, Mobile, Desktop | Yes | Haxe/Lua externs for Defold game engine |
| OpenFL | Web, Mobile, Desktop, Consoles | Yes | Interactive game and app development library. |
| Starling | Web, Mobile, Desktop | Yes | The "Cross-Platform Game Engine", a popular Stage3D framework. |
| Stencyl (OpenFL) | Web, Mobile, Desktop | Yes | Create Flash, HTML5, iOS, Android, and desktop games with no code with Stencyl |
| unreal.hx | Web, Mobile, Desktop, Consoles | Yes | Unreal.hx: Haxe Integration for Unreal. |
| haxe3 or unmaintained 🙈 | _ | _ | Flambe, HaxePunk, luxe |
| Smaller Engines | |||
| Clay | Web, Mobile, Desktop, Consoles | No | Clay is a cross-platform, 2d game framework. |
| Flurry | Web, Desktop | No | 2D focused, cross-platform game engine with multiple rendering backends. |
| gm2d | Web, Mobile, Desktop | No | A library for rapid game developement with NME and Waxe. |
| hank | N/A | Yes | Portable narrative scripting language based on Ink. |
| iron (Kha) | Web, Mobile, Desktop, Consoles | No | Iron is a library for building ultra-portable 3D tools. |
| xt3d | Web, Mobile, Desktop | No | An open-source, cross-platform, 3D graphics and game-development framework using Lime. |
| haxe3 or unmaintained 🙈 | _ | _ | Gecko2D, haxe-phaser3, Khapunk |
| Low-level Engine | Target | Doc | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kha | Web, Mobile, Desktop, Console | Yes | Ultra-portable, high performance, open source multimedia framework. |
| Lime | Web, Mobile, Desktop | Yes | Lime is a flexible, lightweight layer for haxe cross-platform developers. |
| linc_glfw | Desktop | Yes | GLFW binding (multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES and Vulkan). |
| NME | Web, Mobile, Desktop | No | A cross-platform native backend for Haxe projects. |
| haxe3 or unmaintained 🙈 | _ | _ | snow |
| Library | Doc | Description |
|---|---|---|
| echo | Yes | Simple Physics Library. |
| haxebullet | Yes | Bullet 3D Physics for Haxe. |
| nape (XenizoGames) or nape (Lythom) | Yes | Haxe/AS3 Physics Engine (the original haxe3 version of nape can be found here). |
| haxe3 or unmaintained 🙈 | box2d, LiquidFunx |
IoC == Inversion of Control
EC == Entity Component
ECS == Entity-Component-System
FSM == Finite State Machine
MVC == Model View Controller
| Library | Architecture | Doc | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| awe6 | IoC, EC | yes | The inverted game framework, is a development tool focused on Future Proofing. |
| ecs | ECS | hum | Experimental macro-powered Entity-Component-System game engine. |
| ecx | ECS | yes | ECX is Entity Component System framework. |
| GASM | ECS | no | Framework agnostic EntityComponent System for Haxe. |
| ghost | ECS | no | ECS Game Framework built on top of Heaps. |
| hexMachina | MVC | yes | A powerful multi-modular MVC framework. |
| HxFSM | ECS | hum | Simple FSM |
| OSIS | ECS | yes | Entity Component System architecture with networking support. |
| haxe3 or unmaintained 🙈 | Ash-Haxe, IceEntity, hxE, eskimo, edge, ZE2D, echo, baldrick |
| Library | Doc | Description |
|---|---|---|
| SteamWrap | Yes | Haxe native extension for the Steam API. |
| haxe3 or unmaintained 🙈 | _ | extension-steamworks, kong.hx, hxGameJolt, GameJolt-API-Haxe-bindings |
| Library | Doc | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Anette | Yes | Simple network library (no UDP). |
| colyseus-hx | yes | Multiplayer Game Client. |
| haxe-simple-peer (js) | hum | Haxe externs for simple-peer. |
| hxWebSockets | hum | Websockets for all haxe platforms. |
| Built-in | Yes | Heaps, OpenFL (HaxeFlixel & co), Kha (Armory). |
| haxe3 or unmaintained 🙈 | _ | hxnet, linc_enet, peerhx |
| Library | Doc | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Bits | Yes | Binary bit flags with unlimited amount of bits. |
| CastleDB | Yes | CastleDB is a structured static database easing collaboration. |
| hxbit | Yes | HxBit is a binary serialization and network synchronization library . |
| PODStream | Yes | POD serializer. |
| haxe3 or unmaintained 🙈 | _ | msgpack-haxe, protohx, protoc-gen-haxe, flatbuffers-haxe |
| Game | Platform | Engine | Screenshot |
|---|---|---|---|
| RELEASED | |||
| Dead Cells | Desktop, Consoles | Heaps |  |
| Defender's Quest | Desktop, Consoles | HaxeFlixel (OpenFL) |  |
| Evoland | Desktop, Mobile | Heaps |  |
| Northgard | Desktop | Heaps |  |
| Papers, Please | Desktop, iOS, PsVita | OpenFL |  |
| Pocket Kingdom | Desktop | HaxePunk (OpenFL) |  |
| rymdkapsel | Desktop, Mobile | OpenFL |  |
| The Westport Independent | Desktop, Mobile | Luxe |  |
| IN DEVELOPMENT | |||
| Darksburg | Desktop, ? | Heaps |  |
| Dicey Dungeons | Desktop, ? | Haxegon (OpenFL) |  |
| Frontier Story | Desktop | Heaps |  |
More showcase :
- https://www.openfl.org/showcase/
- https://haxeflixel.com/showcase/
- https://itch.io/games/made-with-haxe
- https://haxepunk.com/games/
- https://github.com/aduros/flambe/wiki/Showcase
- https://github.com/Kode/Kha/wiki/Games-Built-With-Kha
| Type | Library | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Animation | spine-hx | Spine runtime for Haxe automatically converted from the official Java/libgdx runtime. For Heaps: Heaps-Spine. |
| _ | HaxeFlixel | Spine parser via flixel-addons. |
| _ | Heaps-Spine | Spine player for heaps. |
| Color manipulation | nxColor | Color manipulation library. |
| Collision | differ | A separation axis theorem collision library. |
| Editor | flixel-studio | In-game editor for HaxeFlixel. |
| Procedural generation | Dungeon builder | Dungeon Builder is a set of dungeon generation algorithm (works w/ hx4 w/ minor changes). |
| Localization | firetongue | A translation/localization framework written in Haxe. |
| Map parser | PyxelEdit Map Importer | Parser for maps generated by the editor PyxelEdit. |
| _ | Heaps | Built-in parser for Tiled. |
| _ | HaxeFlixel | Parser for Tiled & Ogmo via flixel-addons. |
| Math helpers | hxmath | A game-oriented math library for the Haxe language. |
| _ | 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 Haxe games/apps. |
| Particles | Sparkler | Modular Particle System. |
| _ | HaxeFlixel | Built-in. |
| Pathfinding | pathfinder | easy A* (A Star / astar) pathfinding (Haxe). |
| Sprite | haxe-aseprite | Parser for .ase and .aseprite files. |
| Texture Packer | hxpk | Port of the libGDX Texture Packer. |
| Tweening | actuate | Actuate is a flexible, fast "tween" library. |
| _ | YATL | Yet Another (Haxe) Tweening Library. |
| UI | domkit | CSS Components based strictly typed UI framework. |
| _ | flixel-ui | GUI library for HaxeFlixel |
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- https://github.com/MatthijsKamstra/awesome-haxe-js
- https://github.com/restorer/zame-haxe-particles/ (haxe3)
- https://github.com/proletariatgames/HUGS (haxe3)
- https://github.com/unihx/unihx (haxe3)
