openfl VS armory

https://www.openfl.org/

Which is not an emulator, but more of a spiritual successor, following the same API, and with tools to convert Actionscript projects

The game was written in Haxe (the language) and OpenFL (the engine).

Ever looked at OpenFL?

https://www.openfl.org/

Couple notable games haves used it. Haxe is a pretty mature ecosystem as well, from what I’ve heard.

I spent my thirties working and unwinding with flash games with my kids, brings back nostalgia thinking about those nights.

I'm interested in updating Bosca Ceoil! But I can't really promise anything - it depends on an old actionscript music library called SiON , which makes this very difficult. Because the tool is open source, I've been looking into porting this library to haxe, which is slowly making progress: https://github.com/openfl/openfl/pull/2515

You should consider https://www.openfl.org/ instead. OpenFl provides all the flash apis and has been battle tested. Your flash product can be ported to use Haxe + OpenFL without much effort and can then be used as a desktop app or HTML5/JS based game.

Dicey Dungeons is created with Haxe, using my own framework, which is an extension on top of OpenFL and HaxeStarling

Heaps has it's own API, but other Haxe frameworks[1][2] reimplement the flash API. Some tools[3][4] help to convert AS3 source code to Haxe, and the typing and compiler are helpful to fix identify issues, so depending on the size and dependencies, conversion can be easy once you get past the main language differences.

[1] https://www.openfl.org/

What's really missing is an open source "bring your own engine and asset pipeline" editor tool. Game editors have pretty much arrived at the Unity data model and editor workflow (game object outliner to the left, scene view in the middle, property panel on the right, asset panel at the bottom, plus custom panels).

The Unity Editor and asset pipeline is hackable enough to use it as editor for another engine, I did that in the past as "proof of concept" and it definitely works, but is most likely a legal minefield.

Blender is also definitely hackable enough to serve that role (see: https://armory3d.org/) (again I did something similar in the past with Maya, it kinda works, but this wasn't very popular with artists because they were overwhelmed by the UI).

There are two primary contenders to replace the BGE. One is Armory3D (https://armory3d.org/) It has a ton of potential, and outputs to multiple formats including web. But it's a one-developer show and it's been really inconsistent. I taught a class on prototyping 3D games with it, but updates are slow and inconsistent, as is the documentation. Too bad, because it's a promising project, with a blueprints-like visual system and Haxe (basically an open-source actionscript) as the programming language.

https://armory3d.org/features is more of a game engine than just a 3d renderer but not as advanced as unity or unreal in certain aspects. One can write game logic in c/c++/rust -- https://github.com/armory3d/armory/wiki/wasm

Website

Armory3D is also interesting, not a fork of the original BGE AFAIK but integrates with Blender.

Armory3d

I don't know what it's worth, but Armory3D is also an engine built with Blender : https://armory3d.org/