Overview

cocos2d for haXe is a framework for building 2D games, demos, and other graphical/interactive applications. It is based on the cocos2d design: it uses the same concepts, but instead of using objective-c or python it uses haXe. cocos2d for haXe is a direct port from cocos2d for iPhone

cocos2d for haXe is:

• Easy to use: it uses a familiar API, and comes with lots of examples
• Fast: ...
• Flexible: it is easy to extend, easy to integrate with 3rd party libraries
• Free: is open source, compatible both with closed and open source games
• Community supported: cocos2d for iPhone has an active, big and friendly community (forum, IRC)
• cocos2d for haXe supports: Flash, NME (HTML5, iPhone, iPad, Flash, Android, WebOS)
• Features: Scene management (workflow), Transitions between scenes, Sprites and Sprite Sheets
• Effects: Lens, Ripple, Waves, Liquid, Twirl, etc.
• Actions (behaviors):
• Trasformation Actions: Move, Rotate, Scale, Jump, etc.
• Composable actions: Sequence, Spawn, Repeat, Reverse
• Ease Actions: Exp, Sin, Cubic, etc.
• Misc actions: CallFunc?, OrbitCamera?
• Basic menus and buttons
• Integrated physics engine (...)
• Particle system
• Text rendering support (variable and fixed width fonts)
• Texture Atlas support
• Tile Map support (TMXmaps): Orthogonal maps, Isometric maps, Hexagonal maps
• Parallax scrolling support
• Sound support
• Streak Motion support
• Render Texture support
• Point based API: Supports Retina Display
• Touch/Accelerometer support (iOS). Keyboard / Mouse support (Flash)
• Portrait and Landscape mode (iOS) / Fullscreen support (Flash)
• Integrated Pause/Resume
• 32-bit textures
• Language: Haxe