Haxe Roundup № 461

Welcome to the latest edition of the Haxe Roundup. Haxe is a high level, strictly typed programming language and cross-compiler.

Community Updates

News and Articles

• The call for speakers for next years US Haxe Summit 2019 is now open! Submit your application at the official Haxe Summit site. And there are already talk proposals!
• Robert Konrad (the Kha kreator) will join Deck13 game studio next month.
• Is there a Haxe AU/VST builder?
• Lewis Lepton has published lkl library, which you might’ve seen in his Kha tutorial series. He have also created new GitHub repo (currently empty) for his upcoming shader tutorial series.
• Lubos have shared some details about the upcoming Armory3D v0.6 release. Armory3D will default to HashLink/C for native export, which leads to 3x faster compile times and 30% smaller executable size. And Armory3D will be using a new more compact geometry data files.
• Aurel has posted the post-jam version of his Ludum Dare entry - Temple-Based Sacrifice - now with multiplayer!
• Two old Haxe related books from Packt Publishing Limited are on sale: Haxe Game Development Essentials and haXe 2 Beginner’s Guide. Both are bit outdated though, but might be useful for beginners.

In case you missed it

• Dead Cells is the Best Action Game of the year at The Game Awards.
• New devlog from Oleg Dolya about his progress on Medieval Fantasy City Generator.
• The Joy of Haxe - FontStruct’s love affair with a neglected programming language.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• The next London Haxe Meetup, Show and Tell, will take place on the 6th of February at North West House, Marylebone!
• Sébastien Bénard will be talking about Dead Cells design at GDC 2019.
• The next Haxe Summit in Seattle is scheduled for 8th-10th May 2019.
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

For Hire

• Alexander Gordeyko is currently looking for a job as a fullstack developer. Checkout his GitHub account.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Sigma Software have updated their job post and now they are looking for a Senior Haxe Developer.
• CODEFATHER company (Moscow, Russia) is looking for JavaScript/Haxe programmer who will work on extending game engine built with Pixi.js/Haxe.
• Shiro Games are looking for a Game Designer and a Senior Game Programmer to join them.
• Lars Doucet’s latest bounty for $250 is if you can come up with a nice way to unify HXCPP and HashLink C bindings.
• The HaxeFoundation are still looking for a compiler developer to join the team.
• Lars Doucet’s list of various open bounties.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Product Releases

• The Steam page of Darksburg game by Shiro games is now live!

In case you missed it

• OPEN BETA of SUPER Cute Alien is available. Play for free until 01/01/2019!
• Windows and Mac versions of Solid Aether are released on Steam. The list of technologies used for this game.

Videos

• Kha Tutorial 103 - Particle System Refine Library.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Code Examples

In case you missed it

• New sample for Heaps engine by Tong has been merged into the official repo, try out the demo Helpers.
• Working with zip files.
• [tink_web] Making type safe REST API calls with the Haxe tink_web library.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Armory3D open source unnamed game prototype.
• Nanjizal has added colour examples to his fullK project and added a new experiment showing a simplified SVG renderer within Armory3D’s Iron. You can find a little more detail over on the Armory3D forum.
• New code repo from Sébastien Bénard - gamebase. It provides the basic structure for his personal game projects (which focus on Heaps engine).
• New templates AI for Armory3D project, algorithms for autonomous vehicle steering. Currently it contains only Police AI, but more algorithms are in the plans.
• Paddle Strike is a free open source game created with Armory3D engine by MiloGameWorks.
• Caribou continues work on his game with Heaps and his ECS library with network support.

In case you missed it

• Tong has built a temperature/humidity data logger with Haxe and NodeJS, with sources available on Github. He is planning to port the arduino code to hxArduino.

Closed Source

• jmw327 have shared a few gifs from “Frontier Story” (a farming sim game) which is being made with Heaps engine.
  • Getting started on dialogue system.
  • Plus more experiments.
  • Bales of hay are now a magical hay delivery network.
  • Updated willow tree.
• Kirill Poletaev is currently writing some lore for his unnamed 3D puzzle game.
• Latest update for SUPER Cute Alien adds facial expressions and xmas hats.
• Spirkop Games have shared a WIP screenshot from the Cookin’Truck game which is being made with Phaser and Haxe.
• Ed Ryzhov has been working on new GUI for his 3D racing game, Buttons and DLC?.
• Heaps Tracker 1.0 (written with Heaps engine) by Michel Janicki.
• Joe Williamson has shared a series of GIFs about making a 2D game engine that does something it isn’t supposed to do. And I believe that he’s making pinball game with it.
• Screenshot of Defender’s Quest level editor, repurposed for DQ2 from Lars Doucet.

Some Library Releases

• deepstate 0.12.4
• redistHelper 0.3.2
• pony 0.8.6
• away3d 5.0.8
• material-ui 0.8.2
• lex 0.7.0
• raven 0.4.0
• robotlegs 1.1.5
• doctemplater.hx 0.0.1
• jszip.hx 0.0.1
• hxfsm 1.1.0
• react-types 0.5.2
• vscode 1.30.0
• openfl-samples 8.7.0
• apollo 0.1.1

People & Projects to support

• Lubos & contributors are creating Armory, an open source 3D game engine in Blender.
• OpenFL is creating free open source software.
• HaxeUI is creating an open source user interface libraries.
• HaxeFlixel is creating an open source, cross plaform 2D game engine.
• Slava Ra is creating improvements for FlashDevelop and HaxeDevelop.
• Mark Knol is working on Haxe and its documentation.
• Dan Korostelev is working on the Haxe compiler.
• Lewis Lepton is creating tutorials, code and videos.
• Eric Bishton is creating the Haxe plugin for IntelliJ IDEA.
• Will Blanton is creating HaxeFlixel tutorials.
• Matthew Wallace is creating Haxe By Example tutorials.
• August Late is creating unique 2D lighting tech.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

• Add support for default type parameters proposal.
• Add polymorphic this types proposal.
• Add Type parameter variance for Enums.
• Add Default values for enum parameters.
• Do you have an idea to improve Haxe? Consider creating a proposal.

Core Changes

12~ commits have been made to Haxe compiler in the last week.

• Define -D haxe4 flag commit.
• [js] -D analyzer-optimize breaks exception handling fixed.
• [js] Make Promise interact properly with Thenable commit.

You can get started using the latest features by downloading a nightly build of Haxe.

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!