heaps

I gave Heaps a try because I wanted an engine that wasn't tied to any specific editor but ultimately gave up on it. I put in a few weekends of effort but the documentation was just way too minimal [0] and turns out it can't really target mobile platforms out of the box [1]. Even the main developer apparently just outsources mobile ports to another company. [0] - https://heaps.io/documentation/h2d-introduction.html [1] - https://github.com/HeapsIO/heaps/issues/422

Some other details from spelunking the code base... The exposed console functionality interface can be found via `hl_console`, `usesys` & `usegl` references: * https://github.com/HaxeFoundation/hashlink/search?q=hl_conso... * https://github.com/HeapsIO/heaps/search?q=usesys&type=code * https://github.com/HeapsIO/heaps/search?q=usegl&type=code The "interesting" pieces are all in some other codebase, e.g.: * https://github.com/HaxeFoundation/hashlink/blob/4c4de37d49cf... * https://github.com/HaxeFoundation/hashlink/blob/4c4de37d49cf... And, if you're a weirdo like me that likes trawling for small console development details (e.g. they treated as ~BSD system) in the code base check out these: * https://github.com/HeapsIO/heaps/pull/491 (fixes for Nintendo "NVN") * https://github.com/HaxeFoundation/hashlink/commit/7af111a38f... (PlayStation r

Many great games were/are being made in Haxe. - Papers, Please [0] by Lucas Pope. - Dead Cells [1] by Motion Twin, a collective linked to the creator of Haxe. - Evoland [2], Evoland 2 [3], Northgard [4] made by Shiro Games (studio of the creator of Haxe). - rymdkapsel [5] and twofold inc. [6] by grapefrukt games. - Topsoil [7] by Nico Prins. - The Westport Independent [8] by Double Zero One Zero. - Defender's Quest series [9] by Level Up Labs. - Fidel Dungeon Rescue by [10] Daniel Benmergui. Other popular games such as Threes [11] and QWOP [12] were ported to HTML5 with Luxe Engine [13]. Popular game development frameworks and engines include OpenFL [14], HaxeFlixel [15] and Heaps [16]. [0] http://papersplea.se [1] https://dead-cells.com [2] http://evoland.shirogames.com [3] http://www.evoland2.com [4] http://northgard.net [5] https://rym

The haxe-language project 'hxsl' takes a pretty good stab at improving the situation. With hxsl you write your GPU and CPU code in the same language (haxe) and it generates shader strings (in GLSL or AGAL) at compiletime along with CPU code for whatever platform you're targeting. There's not a lot of documentation around it at the moment but the author explains a little about it in this video https://youtu.be/-WeGME_T9Ew?t=31m49s Source code on github https://github.com/ncannasse/heaps/tree/master/hxsl

OpenFL is just one of the many Haxe frameworks, to be sure. For instance, Haxe is great for web applications too -- one of it's chief draws is that you can share the same code on the front end and the back end, but target whichever language is best for that. JS on the front, PHP/NodeJS/Neko/Etc/ on the back. UFront is just one great example: http://ufront.net/ As for other multimedia frameworks, here's my best attempt at an exhaustive list: OpenFL - http://www.openfl.org SnowKit - http://snowkit.org/ Kha - http://tech.ktxsoftware.com/ NME - https://github.com/haxenme/nme Flambe - http://getflambe.com/ HEAPS - https://github.com/ncannasse/heaps And things built on top of those: HaxeFlixel - http://haxeflixel.com/ HaxePunk - http://haxepunk.com/ Luxe Engine - http://luxeengine.com/docs/ Away3D - https://github.com/away3d/away3d-core-openfl