Simone Cingano has, available from GitHub, TileCraft a 2.5D modeling program written with OpenFL. TileCraft is touted as being a “fast multi-platform modeling tool to make tiles for games, icons or whatever you want”. The project has decent documentation with a quick start guide, how to build from source, ready to use examples and more. This is one to watch.
Another library from Simone, akifox-asynchttp, a “multi-platform asynchronous HTTP+HTTPS requests [library]” has been updated adding SSL support, custom headers, redirection handling and lots more.
Giuseppe Di Mauro has released hxClipper which “performs clipping and offsetting for both lines and polygons” and is a port of the polyclipping library.
Patrick Le Clec'h has release another Hacking Haxe example, this week introducing the def keyword for property and method creation.
A game created with HaxeFlixel, called Sort!Sort!Sort!, available from the Play Store, is a “hardcore timekiller in [the] nearest dystopian future” created by Николай Ермаков, whos looking for your feedback.
Leong Wai Yin has written the HaxeFlixel tutorial Using The Camera. This is a great flowing tutorial with its easy to follow code, plenty of screenshots, it will teach you camera shake, flash, fade, fill, following, bounds and more. Dont be deceived by its simple title, its a treasure trove of information.
Sean Kim has written the article Post-Mortem of The Legend of the Yo-Yo Salesman, an LD32 game created with HaxeFlixel.
Ipsilion Developments have released an update on to haxelib for OpenFL UnityAds a native extension updated to support SDK version 16-4-2015.
Another haxelib update this time from Justin Donaldson, is promhx a “promise and functional reactive programming library for Haxe” thats fixes some macro magic around Streams.
Franco Ponticelli's call to action to get Haxe support added to Microsoft's Visual Studio Code, currently sits at the 8th most requested feature, with 1203 votes. I don't think Franco will be happy with 8th position... ;)
To finish this weeks roundup off, Sven Bergström has published the alpha-2.0+0010 recap. Alot has happened, so if your invested in snõwkit, take some time to read up on all the new features.