Open Source ActionScript Game Development Frameworks for Mac

Hungry Hero is an open source Flash game developed with the Starling Framework, designed as an educational example for developers interested in Stage3D and GPU-accelerated game development. The game demonstrates how to leverage Starling’s features to create smooth, hardware-accelerated 2D experiences while maintaining cross-device compatibility through Adobe AIR and Flash. It showcases core concepts such as handling textures, sprite sheets, parallax backgrounds, and collision detection, providing a clear reference for building interactive games. The project also integrates advanced techniques like object pooling for performance, bitmap fonts for efficient text rendering, and Starling’s particle system extension for visual effects. Though originally built with the iPad 1 and 2 in mind, it can be adapted to multiple devices by adjusting configuration files, emphasizing the principle of “one code, multi-screen.”

A social racing game with distributed leader boards and open-source tracks.

Small scripting language with a minimal yet powerful command syntax developed in ActionScript 3. Heavily inspired by Sauerbraten's console language.

A collection of Flash and Flex program samples that demonstrates how to create multimedia applications in Actionscript.

Flave is a Flash-based, OOP verlet physics engine developed in AS3 and Flash CS3.

Nameless Engine is an open source game framework for ActionScript/Flex which component-based architecture provides maximum flexibility and extensibility, delivering a rapid development pipeline that can be used in many different games.

This library has a collections of classes which are more often used in Game programming. This is culmination of 2+ yrs experience in game programming. The library includes classes from range of ResourceManager (to load & store assets) to AMF connection package & an Isometric engine. It also has a physics engine, which is not completed yet.

This was a multi-user sprite creation tool.

A collection of demos, with source code, demonstrating advanced examples of web programming.

Maggie (Multiprocess ActionScript Generic Game Interface Engine) is a library developed in ActionScript 3.0 to create Flash games.