Haxe Roundup № 466

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

Haxe US Summit 2019

• Haxe US Summit 2019 - Announcing the second Haxe Summit in the United States.
• The Haxe US Summit tickets are now vailable. Early bird tickets are $299.00, but after 28th February they will cost $450.
• You can submit your talk proposals for this years US Haxe Summit 2019 via the online form by Josefiene Pertosa.
• Photos from previous Haxe meetups via Josefiene Pertosa.

Community Updates

News and Articles

• Haxe 4.0.0-rc.1 is here! Checkout the changelog and download from the Haxe website.
• HashLink 1.9 has been released! This release is compatible with the latest Haxe 4.0.0-rc1.
• HaxeFlixel 4.6.0 is now available on HaxeLib. Among other things, it adds compatibility with Haxe 4.0.0-rc.1, a new FlxAction API and blend mode support with OpenFL 8.8.0. See changelog for details.
• Initial release of grig.midi - midi support for Haxe.
• How to make Math.random() deterministic.
• HashLink target status in OpenFL by Joshua Granick.
• Caribou has made a curated list of Haxe gamedev resources, available on GitHub.
• Players are already adding mods to the Dicey Dungeons game by Terry Cavangh. The mod system in this game is powered by Lars Doucet’s polymod framework.
• SlavaRa can make HaxeDevelop / FlashDevelop run under MacOS and Linux, but he’ll do it for $8k-10k and 2-3 months of work, for the same money and time he can transfer all the functionality to VS Code.

In case you missed it

• Evoland Legendary Edition (both games in one) will be released on the PS4, Xbox One and Switch on February 7th. Checkout the Announcement Trailer. This is going to be… LEGENDARY! .
• DomKit - CSS based components, strictly typed UI framework for Haxe by Nicolas Cannasse, which was originally created as a part of the Heaps engine, but now it’s a separate project. Nicolas presented this framework at HaxeUp meetup at Docler.
• Developers, friends, Haxe people - take the 2019 Stack Overflow Developer survey and be heard!
• Announcement trailer for Nintendo Switch version of Double Kick Heroes, a game made with OpenFL.
• WWE announced a partnership with Massive Interactive.
• Dicey Dungeons by Terry Cavanagh is nominated for Excellence in Design at Independent Games Festival 2019.
• Dead Cells is the Best Action Game of the year at The Game Awards.
• The Joy of Haxe - FontStruct’s love affair with a neglected programming language.

Videos & Music

• Evoland: Legendary Edition trailer for Playstation 4.
• New video from Charles Griffiths - A brief story in which an exploring hero is beaten up by rats
• Product Editor Prototype #2 video by Michael Bickel. Built with React Components using haxe-react.
• Installation Guide: Haxe Pony Library on MacOS - a new video from Alexander Gordeyko.
• Shader Tutorial - EP011 - We Scale Our Shape.
• Shader Tutorial - EP013 - Warp Grid.
• Shader Tutorial - EP014 - Water Color.
• Shader Tutorial - EP015 - Water Color 02.
• The hero is ready to explore the map video by Charles Griffiths and made with Kha.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

In case you missed it

• Haxe-React UI Prototype video from Michael Bickel.

Past Events

• Some highlights from the recent HaxeUp 2019 at Luxembourg:
  • YouTube playlist with separate talks.
  • Full Twitch stream recording with limited time remaining.
  • Who are these amazing people?
  • Haxe community cheat sheet by Josefiene Pertosa.
  • A few photos from Haxe meetup.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• 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.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Matt Braun has a business associate who is looking for Haxe talent. Anyone available for Haxe architect and development work should get in contact with him.
• Job offer in Durban, South Africa by Christopher Mandlbaur.
• The Proletariat Inc team is growing. They are looking for artists, engineers and strong community people. Apply Here!.
• 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

• Mechangrejo by Joaquin Bello (made with Kha) for Global Game Jam.
• Rocket House - A local multiplayer 2.5D shooter made with Armory3D for Global Game Jam.

In case you missed it

• Anders Nissen has released an update for Stoneset game, which adds new a “Journey” game mode. Get it at Google Play!
• A Game Boy inspired metroidvania Tiny Dangerous Dungeons by Jussi Simpanen is coming to Steam on 1st of March for PC and Mac!

Code Examples

• Gestalt_3.1 by Stephen Lavelle, with the source code available on GitHub.
• Rat King has followed Peter Shirley’s “Ray Tracing In One Weekend” tutorial, but in Kha and Haxe. Source code is available on GitHub.

In case you missed it

• A simple LR(0) HScript Parser.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Maps of the same city with the “elevation” option on and off by Oleg Dolya.
• Armory terrain test! Wandering in a 1x1km world.
• A few generative art sketches by Matthijs Kamstra made with Haxe, with sources on GitHub:
  • sketch.cc0011.
  • sketch.cc0011.part2.
  • sketch.cc013.
  • sketch.cc0012.

Closed Source

• A few GIFs from Jitter sandbox by Syo:
  • Added an image analyzer that generates zones for navigation and everything.
  • Probably have to do caching in the pathfinding system.
  • Now it’s like a space fleet.
• Fast-travel using checkpoints… from Phantom Path game by Kirill Poletaev.
• A few screenshots from the Stencyl game Ben Simms is working on:
  • Added shop and pleased with how this one has turned out!
  • “debug” mode.
• Couple of GIFs from Techy Wrinkles:
  • Playing with Actuate and OpenFL.
  • Being away from 3D for so long, I forgot how many verts are needed for a smooth path.
• Terry Cavanagh had been a bit carried away with tutorial for Dicey Dungeons!
• A few GIFs from SHOTDOGS game by Alex Johansson:
  • A game about skimming guns across a lake.
  • Some uzi action.
  • Got the map integrated and a bunch of critters in each level.
  • Chillin on the back of a whaaaaaale.
• New “Turtle Town” tiles for Renaine.
• New grass for Ed Ryzhov’s new 3D racing game.
• Overlink - a new puzzle game made with Haxe and Unity3D will be released soon.

Some Library Releases

• redistHelper 0.3.3
• vscode 1.31.0
• format 3.4.2
• argan 0.9.9
• fuse 0.0.8
• flashbite-lib-haxe 1.5.1
• material-ui 0.14.1
• grig.midi 0.0.1
• flixel 4.6.0
• flixel-demos 2.7.0
• flixel-addons 2.7.2
• flixel-ui 2.3.2
• mlib 2.0.3
• munit 2.3.3
• modular 0.11.0
• react 1.5.0
• tink_domspec 0.1.3
• tink_state 0.10.1
• tink_hxx 0.19.1
• react-next 1.108.0
• css-types 0.1.2
• react-router-4 0.2.5
• tink_anon 0.3.3
• electron 4.0.4
• js-object 0.0.6
• pony 0.9.4
• jstack 2.3.10
• safety 1.0.1
• tink_core 1.20.0
• gm2d 4.0.22
• hexmachina 1.0.0-alpha.7
• delay 1.2.2
• Checkout the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

• [kore/krom] Implement script serialization pull request.

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 implementations within interfaces proposal.
• 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

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

• Null safety feature has been merged.
• Dash in XML literal node name not parsing issue.
• [std] Modernize some @:optional/@:extern/@:final/@:enum syntax merged.
• [hxcpp] Unicode vs reflection issue…
• [nullsafety] Add tests for some Null<BasicTypes> behaviour pull request.
• [webidl] Modularize JavaScript output and update binder pull request.
• [webidl] Exporse intermediate buildTypes function and capitalize class names pull request.
• [hl/cs/neko] Funky String.lastIndexOf performance issue.
• [eval] Slightly optimize find_substring for ascii strings commit.
• [eval] Runtime arguments are added twice to Sys.args() fixed.
• [nullsafety] Null safety strictness levels issue.
• Allow object."field" syntax discussion.

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!