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HaxeFlixel is open source software developed by volunteers, click here to meet the team!
If you're a developer and like what we're doing, read the docs and get involved.
In case you're looking for resources, help, or just want to interact with the community:
HaxeFlixel was created by Alexander Hohlov, also known as Beeblerox who continues to be the project lead. The codebase started largely from a Haxe port of the AS3 version of Flixel written by Adam “Atomic” Saltsman and Richard Davey's Power Tools
Special thanks go to the community contributors Werdn, gamedevsam, impaler, ProG4mr, Gama11, sergey-miryanov and more.
HaxeFlixel presents substantial enhancements from the original Flixel AS3 code:
- Use of a robust and powerful, open source language
- Flexible Asset Management System
- Cross-platform development for Linux, Mac and Windows
- Texture Atlas and Layer enhancement for cpp targets
- Integrated and robust Tween System
- Access to OpenFL native extensions
- Compile to Mobile and Desktop targets with native code through OpenFL
- Impressive Native Performance using GPU accelerated drawTiles implementation on cpp targets
- A powerful debugger with a console as well as an advanced logging system
- A vibrant community that keeps updating the engine and adding new features to it
If you are wanting to contribute code, please review the following documentation:
If you have a question or have not contributed on GitHub before, there are friendly people in the community that help out in the forums.
For using git with GitHub we recommended using a GUI application to manage your changes, for example SourceTree.
The current possible targets are:
| Mobile | Desktop | Web |
|---|---|---|
| BlackBerry | Linux | Flash |
| iOS | Mac | HTML5 |
| Android | Windows | |
| WebOS | Neko |
- Display thousands of moving objects
- Basic collisions between objects
- Group objects together for simplicity
- Easily generate and emit particles
- Create game levels using tilemaps
- Text display, save games, scrolling
- Mouse, keyboard, controller, and touch inputs
- Math & color utilities
- Record and play back replays
- Powerful interactive debugger
- Camera system for split screen
- Pathfinding and following
- Easy object recycling