procedural-spider VS heaps

I feel like ECS is that in a lot of ways, where the sweetspot is narrower than it seems. I'd veeeeeery much recommend trying out Macroquad + HECS (or even bevy_ecs). I remember the feeling I got after taking yet another round of gamedeving with bevy and going into macroquad, and I was just blown away by how much more productive I was. Maybe it's the way my brain works, and maybe I'm too much of a "hacker" to do things properly first, but if you want a specific example check out this small game I made in Macroquad (link to github in description). I went from "never used this" to "maybe I should do procedural animation" to finished game in about a day.

I made a small open-source game with Macroquad for the last Ludum Dare and it was quite easy (source code and assets here (MIT license, use however you want)).

Source code + assets (MIT license): https://github.com/darthdeus/procedural-spider

Maybe the engine used for Dead Cells, https://heaps.io ?

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.

Not really the worst, but you can say my least favorite, and that would be heaps.io

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.

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.

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:

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.