[cableshaft]

Thanks for your thoughts. I've tried Construct2 and GameMaker before and before too long it felt like I was in a straitjacket I couldn't break free from. That's why I specified any genres, because those both seem to handle puzzle/strategy games rather poorly (Construct2 moreso than Gamemaker).

I've tried LibGDX and I just ran into too many little issues that slowed down development (especially for certain platforms) with not enough discussion online to help fix it. It wasn't the Java part of it (I have a decent amount of Java experience), it was the library. I had that same problem with Haxe as well, which I really wanted to make work for me. I did not try OpenFl, however.

CreateJS seems appealing because some of my flash assets are tons of frame by frame vector animation, and I'm not wanting to manually convert those to bitmaps. It'd take forever and the filesize would be huge.

But I looked at a 2d tutorial for Phaser last night and that had a syntax that looked very comfortable for me, so it's looking like that might be the way to go. CreateJS is tempting for ports, though.