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heaps | Phaser | |
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21 | 182 | |
3,131 | 35,792 | |
1.2% | - | |
9.7 | 9.6 | |
about 8 hours ago | 4 months ago | |
Haxe | JavaScript | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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heaps
- Not only Unity...
- List of Unity alternatives
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Unity's Trap
Maybe the engine used for Dead Cells, https://heaps.io ?
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Ask HN: Best stack to make a 2D game in 2023
I've personally had a very good experience with Haxe and Haxeflixel (https://haxeflixel.com/) although Heaps (https://heaps.io/) seems to be more popular nowadays.
Haxe is very nice as a language, can easily cross-compile to a lot of targets, Haxeflixel is heavily inspired by some Actionscript framework and has a lot of goodies. Maybe Heaps is more mature, up to date and allows for more advanced features.
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What is the worst engine you've ever used and why?
Not really the worst, but you can say my least favorite, and that would be heaps.io
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why are gamedevs so against sharing code?
Yeah I think it's ideal for 2D development. Look into heaps.io . . you might like it! These days it seems the best source of community for haxe is in their official discord server.
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Picking a language
Many frameworks will let you export for the web, even if you don't code your game in JS. Unity, Godot, Bevy(?), heaps.io ... the list goes on and on.
- Ask HN: Why Adobe still can't figure out Flash on WASM?
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I tried the Flash AS3 at school and it was nice
It takes a little while to get comfortable with heaps.io, largely because tutorials in the Haxe world are pretty limited. Here's a good place to start:
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Everybody always says to 'build your own projects' or 'solve your own problems', what are some things you've done or personally solved for yourself that can inspire others to get their own ideas from?
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that most people use Unity or Godot for jams these days. But as long as your framework exports for the web, you should be fine. Personally, I use haxe and heaps.io, but it's a bit of an outlier and probably requires learning a new language on top of learning a framework.
Phaser
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Simple React Game Tutorial
Just use an actual game framework https://phaser.io/
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Not only Unity...
Phaser (MIT/JS) https://github.com/photonstorm/phaser
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Thirteen Potions Build Log
I used the Phaser framework to build the game! I didn't pick it for any particular reason, I just saw that they were offering prizes at the end of the game jam so I thought it'd be a good choice. In hindsight, once again, I should have read the fine print and realized that Phaser is very large for this kind of game jam, but MOVING ON.
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Alternative Game Engines for Marooned Unity Developers
Phaser: I've actually used this engine before! It's pretty decent if you're just making small browser games and really easy to use. I taught a programming class to kids aged 10-15 and we used this for a couple of projects. They had no problem making some decent games with it. MIT Licensed and would definitely recommend giving it a go if you want to make something that has the same sort of style as older browser flash games we all used to play on Miniclip and other similar sites.
- FLaNK Stack Weekly 18 September 2023
- Phaser: A fast, fun and free open source HTML5 game framework
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Consider web technologies for game development
https://phaser.io/ is a great framework to get started with
- Bitty Engine: A tiny powerful game engine
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Building a Mobile Game with Phaser and Ionic Vue: Part One
I love playing video games, especially console and mobile games. I learned about Phaser (an open source framework for building games with JavaScript) last year and have wanted to try out game development using the skills I already have as a web developer.
What are some alternatives?
flixel - Free, cross-platform 2D game engine powered by Haxe and OpenFL
kaboom.js - 💥 JavaScript game library
Kha - Ultra-portable, high performance, open source multimedia framework.
PixiJS - The HTML5 Creation Engine: Create beautiful digital content with the fastest, most flexible 2D WebGL renderer.
Godot - Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
GDevelop - :video_game: Open-source, cross-platform game engine designed to be used by everyone.
openfl - The Open Flash Library for creative expression on the web, desktop, mobile and consoles.
BabylonJS - Babylon.js is a powerful, beautiful, simple, and open game and rendering engine packed into a friendly JavaScript framework.
armory - 3D Engine with Blender Integration
three.js - JavaScript 3D Library.
raylib - A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
nextjs-boilerplate - A NextJS boilerplate with tailwindcss, eslint and prettier