Haxe Roundup № 467

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

• Take the Haxe 2019 Survey.
• Version 2.6.0 of the Haxe extension for VSCode is now available, including debugging support for Haxe 4’s new macro interpreter and markdown highlighting in doc comments.
• Haxe Test Explorer for VSCode - an extension to visualise test results from munit, utest, buddy and haxe.unit.
• The Adventure Pals - Porting to console via Unity - Part 1 - a new article from DO games.
• How to have Haxe comments included in the generated target output?
• Mike Robinson adds his own experience using Haxe to the thread “A quoran wants to know about Haxe”.
• Check out the new exhibit at Teknisk Museum - a virtual hydropower plant - made by Logic Interactive and created using Unreal Engine and Haxe.
• A new feature helps study Kerchhoff circuit law, by showing current analysis.
• ArmorPaint is getting more and more refined.

In case you missed it

• Haxe 4.0.0-rc.1 is here! Checkout the changelog and download from the Haxe website.
• 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

• None this week.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

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

• There will be little Haxe meetup in Saint-Petersburg, Russia on 2nd of March. More details will be available soon.
• 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

• The Moonshine IDE team are asking for help to bring their IDE to Haxe.
• 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

• Survival GGJ 2019 entry, with source available on GitHub by John Doughty.
• Ostranauts is a Noir spaceship-life sim set in the NEO Scavenger universe. Coming in late 2019 to Steam.
• Spellbreak is a new battle royale RPG with epic magic combat by Proletariat Inc..
• GrannyQuest is a new game on RPG Playground which is made with Kha.
• Flesh to Stone: Rock Hard Edition is finally out on Newgrounds and made with HaxeFlixel.

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

• LiquidFX - a simple water shader for Armory.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Medieval Fantasy City Generator v0.6.0 by Oleg Dolya.
• SlavaRa continues his work on HaxeDevelop / FlashDevelop: this week he has added code navigation for variables used in string interpolation and multiline editing.
• Nicolas Cannasse have written documentation for the DomKit library.
• Matthijs Kamstra continues making generative art sketches. Checkout his gallery of all of them so far.

Closed Source

• Persona clone incoming (cutscenes btw) from the game by Don’t Panic which he is making with Kha.
• A few screenshots from SUPER Cute Alien:
  • Improving our hit fx.
  • Added swirly eyes for knock outs, is it any good?
  • Hacking mini game.
• Couple of GIFs from Jitter Sandbox by Syo:
  • Interaction of fire and air.
  • Infinite Improbability Drive demonstration.
• Not sure if this is gonna make it into the game yet, but it’s kinda fun! from Dicey Dungeons by Terry Cavanagh.
• Critters from Phantom Path by Kirill Poletaev.
• Couple of GIFs from Renaine by Octosoft:
  • The Phoenix Burst has a very simple control scheme.
  • Simple use item test.
  • Non-glamorous side of gamedev - transcribing a map tile by tile.
• The perk system of Dead World Heroes is under development.
• Alex Johansson has shared a lot of GIFs, screenshots and sketches of SHOTDOGS, a game he’s making with Stencyl:
  • Got a bunch of different weapons available.
  • Gun menu is implemented but most Importantly… THE TUBA.
  • Got UI for unlocking new weapons implemented and resizing the Interface for phone screens.
  • Hanging out with the Jellyfish Queen and ordering some hotdogs.
  • Some doodles for the various obstacles.
  • Got a cute little marker on the map that moves based on which island in SHOTDOGS you’ve reached.
  • Using a mouse on the wall is fuuuuuuun.
  • Some scenic shots from SHOTDOGS being displayed at Camb Game Devs.
  • Added a nice little slo-mo effect on the gun once it hits the optimal angle to shoot.
  • Added a cinematic frame for the first throw.
  • OMONOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM.
• Ohsat Games had been toying with the idea of remaking/expanding his old game jam entry Boxtermination. What are you thinking about it?
• Couple of GIFs from Overlink 3D puzzle game:
  • Two’s company… but three’s a crowd or something?
  • Worked on some new color schemes.
• Debug geometry screenshot from Ed Ryzhov’s 3D racing game.
• Few GIFs from Ben Simms game he’s making with Stencyl:
  • You have to collect a certain amount of crystals before unlocking the big gem.
  • Trying to make the scenes look a bit more “alive”.
  • Short intro.
• Progression of Stoneset by Anders Nissen from early prototype to latest beta release.
• Preview of a new class in Defender’s Quest 2 – “The Jumper”. And current DQ2 status: 13 / 45 battles have been designed and rough balanced.
• Peter Achberger have added fully event based ECS interaction with entities and happy pet dog in his RPG game he is making with Haxe and PhaserJS.
• jmw had been busy writing a parser/lexer for a scripting language to use for dialogue and cutscenes in Frontier Story. He has shared a few GIFs and screenshot:
  • Ridiculously large acorns.
  • Attempting to make you feel sad when you have to destroy all those poor weeds.
  • I wanted there to be at least one other actual farm in the game.
  • Overalls are in.

Some Library Releases

• haxe-phaser3 3.16.2
• test-adapter 1.0.1
• utest 1.9.2
• hxp 1.1.0
• fuse 0.0.9
• pony 0.9.5
• flixel-templates 2.5.4
• stablexui 1.2.2
• test-adapter 1.0.1
• signals 1.0.7
• utest 1.9.2
• tink_hxx 0.20.0
• csss 0.5.0
• html-inline 0.2.0
• flixel-addons 2.7.3
• vshaxe 2.5.0
• Checkout the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

• [kha] Khabind WebIDL binder pull request.
• [kha][armory3d] Documentation on how to use Khabind, binding CPP libraries to Kha for JavaScript and HashLink comment.
• [tink_web] Dynamic parameter names issue.
• [tink_web] Merge params from different sources issue.

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

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

• Null safety feature has been merged.
• Rare issue with compiler cache issue.
• [js] HTML externs: modernize typedefs and change whitespace convention merged.
• [js] HTML externs: add new API’s merged.
• Faster CRC32 implementation using precomputed tables merged.
• Context.defined/definedValue keys should translate dashes to underscores issue.
• [std] Modernize some @:optional/@:extern/@:final/@:enum syntax merged.
• [hxcpp] Unicode vs reflection issue…
• [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!