Haxe Roundup № 470

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. Tickets are now $450.
Ryan Davis will talk about using Haxe for database engine building.
Thomas .J Webb from Osaka Red LLC will talk about audio development with Haxe.
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.
Hugh Sanderson and Andy Li will be at US HaxeSummit 2019.

Community Updates

News and Articles

Speak Up! - The US HaxeSummit 2019.
The Haxe 2018 survey results have finally been published, thanks to Valentin Lemière.
Small blogpost (in Russian) with some photos about the recent HaxeUp in Saint-Petersburg.
Stencyl 4 is finally stable and available for download.
Consider adding a minimum Haxe version property to haxelib.json discussion.
Threads, untyped CPP data and the garbage collector discussion.
The discussion on Defold forum about using Haxe continues, gaining increased interest.
A small update for Dicey Dungeons is out, fixing a few small things from v0.16 big update. Here’s the changelog.
HEAPS.IO, UN MOTEUR DE JEU SOUS HAXE - A blogpost from Benjamin François about his first impressions on Heaps.io.
DO Games (a company which handles porting across all major platforms, and which ported some of the Haxe games for consoles) gives some tips on porting your game.
Big Twitter thread by Gabrielle about the game she is making for 7DRL Challenge 2019.
Some facts about upcoming ArmorPaint v0.6:
- New ArmorPaint development builds are now up if you feel adventurous, approaching the 0.6 release!
- Fill tool in 0.6 can fill individual faces. Will get more robust for painting colour id maps & masking. Full process runs on the gpu.
- Advancing the decal tool in ArmorPaint. Applies all channels at once and supports opacity masking now.

Videos & Music

New video from Lewis Lepton: Kha Tutorial - EP116 - Setup Visual Studio Code.
New video (in Russian) from Igor Vasilev about debugging Haxe C++ applications in VSCode.
Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

Double Kick Heroes will be at PAX East 2019 (28-31 March).
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.
Come speak in the Haxe Track at Hong Kong Open Source Conference 14-15 June 2019 by Andy Li.
Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

Make a JS target implementation of *.vm.Thread using Web Workers for $200 bounty.
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

Northgard is in the Humble Bundle Monthly!
The Open Beta for the Northgard Relics update is available now! To get your code, fill in this survey form.
Something big is coming for OVERWHELM game. What it could be? Oh, it’s Nintendo Switch port which will come out on 4th of April with the new co-op mode (will be available only on the Nintendo Switch).
Game Boy inspired mini-metroidvania Tiny Dangerous Dungeons by Jussi Simpanen is now out on Steam. Get it at -10% launch discount until 8th of March! And here is a little review of the game.

Code Examples

HaxeVM is a prototype compiler/virtual machine in Haxe for Haxe.
Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

flixel-pixel-perfect by Austin East is a simple example demonstrating how to achieve “Pixel Perfect” rendering with Haxeflixel.
Gauthier B has updated the Super Mario message service which is made with Haxe and Phaser.
Dan Korostelev has updated hxdefold to latest engine APIs (Defold 1.2.148) and added hot-reloading support \o/.
hxTShopify and folderNode are moving forward, like adding functionality to save a product to binary file with help of hxBit.
In case you were wondering about how this vshaxe thing works…
Jordon have released sources for the Robo Wall Crawler - a game he made for his kids in 2014 with Haxe and HaxePunk. Sources are available at GitHub and Gitlab.
New generative art sketches from Matthijs Kamstra with sources available at his gitHub:

Closed Source

Some news about Overlink from Danny Yaroslavski;
- Why launch just one game, when you can launch two? Overlink Shadows features 30 more 3D puzzles, and some cool, dark colorschemes.
- Overlink is now live on iOS and Android
- Premium level pack IAPs will come later
- Always Be Iterating #3: Dark color theme proved to be more popular with players.
A few GIFs form Peter Achberger’s WIP RPG game which he is making with Haxe and Phaser:
- My foray into shaders begins with making things gray.
- It’s alive! Color grading using lookup table.
- And here is the shader code for the previous effect.
- Fetch! Who’s a good boy!?
- I wonder what’s next on my TODO list… Oh, right.
- Made a small tool to visualize the current state of AI behavior tree. In the future it should help with debugging.
Some news from RPG Playground:
- Working on the new entry point of RPG Playground. Here you can create your own game, or play adventures made by others.
- New lobby will enable RPG Playground to be put on various platforms such as itch.io, kongregate, etc. Your shared game will be instantly playable by everyone!
- Some stats: Out of 10.584 user created projects, 140 were shared on the forum with title and description.
Ben Simms has been working on a Ridiculous Fishing style ending for his game’s levels.
Your magnet gun is broken, so it can only pull… from the new game called “Attraction Force” by Ohsat Games. A playable alpha build will be available soon.
Debugging custom hierarchical FSM for Jitter sandbox.
Preview of the upcoming version of Control Your Tongue by Nightblade.
Wardy’s first attempt at building something in HaxeFlixel. Just need to get some more suitable audio and scale it properly but it’s mostly there.
Alex Johansson continues his work on SHOTDOGS. He’s working through list of feedback on the game.
jmw has added penguins in Frontier Story game since he reached 120 Patrons goal.

Some Library Releases

Framework Updates

None this week.

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

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

[null safety] Null safety errors in inlined code issue.
[lua] Printing of recursive values causes stack overflow issue.
[php] Improve generation of anonymous objects declaration with a 50% speed improvement issue.
[wip] Improve parser error handling merged.
Static extension @:using doesn’t seem to work on abstract fixed.
Enum match on variable name fixed.
Can’t define enum abstracts from other abstracts issue.
-D analyzer-* and @:analyzer details comment.

Haxe Roundup № 470

Haxe US Summit 2019

Community Updates

News and Articles

In case you missed it

Videos & Music

Upcoming Events & Talks

Job Offers & Bounties

Product Releases

In case you missed it

Code Examples

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Closed Source

Some Library Releases

Framework Updates

People & Projects to support

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

Core Changes

In case you missed it