Haxe Roundup № 476

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

• The Haxe Summit has moved to FlowPlay’s office. More details about the upcoming Haxe Summit will be blogged about soon.
• The Haxe Summit is Small Potatoes by Josefiene Pertosa.
• Haxe US Summit 2019 - Announcing the second Haxe Summit in the United States.
• The Haxe US Summit tickets are now available. Tickets are now $313.33.
• Andy Li - Building Giffon with Serverless and Haxe.
• Hugh Sanderson - XhX - 10 years of Haxe.
• 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.
• “Eating Soup with a Fork: Retooling the Lime Stack to Embed an OpenFL App into a .NET Control” talk by David Hamiter and Alex Rothman from Ionosoft.
• Juraj Kirchheim will teach us about Declarative UI Programming in both a talk and a workshop.
• Josh Tynjala, the creator of Feathers UI, will be attending the Haxe Summit in Seattle.

Community Updates

News and Articles

• Small Untitled RPG Devlog 3 by Peter Achberger.
• New post: Blurry Timeline Allies (Demo and Kickstarter Soon) by Ingénoire.
• An interesting Twitter thread about Ceramic engine, an open source minimal & portable cross-platform 2D game engine by Jérémy Fa.
• A very short devlog from Lewis Lepton - OTO 1.0.1 an update for Mojave users.
• Top 10 Games of Pax East 2019: Dicey Dungeons.

In case you missed it

• Alexander Gordeyko is still looking for a full-time job.
• Will Blanton has made PT++ - a Playable Trailer in a sense, but it really stands for Pregnancy Test++. He and his wife Julie are expecting twin boys! And this little game is a tribute to celebrate their teamwork!
• A few approaches to utilize Haxe and its targets written by Kevin Leung.
• class HaxeFoundation extends Manpower - Alexander Kuzmenko joins the HF as a full-time compiler dev and Aurel Bily joins as an intern for 6 months working on various projects!
• FeathersUI will be fully developed with Haxe and OpenFL by its author Josh Tynjala. He is planning to open a crowd-funding campaign for to fund it. Checkout his blog post about it and announcement on OpenFL forum.
• Haxe 4.0.0-rc.2 has been released!
• Dead Cells had been nominated for 2019 British Academy Games Awards in the Original Property category!
• 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.
• A new article from Jaime Domínguez, How to profile Haxe HXCPP with Visual Studio.
• The Joy of Haxe - FontStruct’s love affair with a neglected programming language.

Videos & Music

• Kha Tutorial - EP121 - Tween Refine Library by Lewis Lepton.
• Kha Tutorial - EP122 - Renaming Refine Library by Lewis Lepton.
• A new video from Dead World Heroes - Get the hell out of GenLab!
• A very interesting slide from Juan Linietsky’s “The State of Godot” talk.
• A Bartender, a Bounty Hunter, a Nun and a Werewolf walk into a……Zombie Outbreak?! - take a look at first Darksburg gameplay trailer! You can also wishlist the game on Steam.

In case you missed it

• A short interview with David Elahee about Double Kick Heroes made at PAX East 201.
• Video of Sebastien Benard’s talk from GDC 2019 is available now: ‘Dead Cells’: What the F*n!?. Plus presentation slides.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• There will be a Stencyl Jam from April 12th - till April 22nd. The top three entries will receive a Stencyl Studio license. Sign up now!
• The next Haxe Summit in Seattle is scheduled for 8th-10th May 2019.
• Haxe transpilation to PHP: static typing, arrow functions, metaprogramming and more by Aleksandr Kuzmenko on 14-15 June at Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2019.
• What’s new in Haxe 4 by Andy Li on 14-15 June at Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2019.
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Playtika are looking for a Haxe programmer to work at their Minsk branch (Belarus). They are maintaining a Html5 version of their C# game engine, so required skills are: C#, Haxe, Javascript & WebGL. Please contact Ed Ryzhov for details.
• 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.
• Lars Doucet’s list of various open bounties.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Product Releases

• Pavel Alexandrov has ported his old game called Victima which he made in 2015 with OpenFL to Heaps. You can play it here (Russian only).

In case you missed it

• Peasant Knight, the puzzle-platformer has been released (the PC version made with HaxeFlixel) so far on Steam, Switch, PS4, and Vita.
• OTO is a minimalist platform puzzle game by Lewis Lepton made during the notGDC Jam 2019. And he started development of a bigger version of OTO with more mechanics, more levels, sounds, music!
• fangoals.games is a game by MediaMonks made with Haxe and Pixi.js.
• You can playtest MONDAR’S DUNGEON - a game by Rat King and Jana Reinhardt.
• hidezip.com is a web app by Kevin Leung made with Haxe and Coconut that lets you camouflage an archive file to make it looks like an image file in your file explorer.
• The Heart of Dead Cells is half artbook, half making-of.
• Spellbreak is a new battle royale RPG with epic magic combat by Proletariat Inc..

Code Examples

• Example Heaps iOS app by Justin Walsh.
• tink_http local and AWS Lambda setup.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• ArmorPaint gearing up for ray tracing.
• New generative art sketches by Matthijs Kamstra:
  • sketch.art.CC067 - blobs wiggling.
  • sketch.art.CC070.
  • sketch.art.CC068 - all for one and one for all.
• New features for HaxeDevelop have been implemented by SlavaRa:
  • Converting static method calls into static extension calls with codegenerator.
  • Added completion for EnumValue.
• Craxe is growing! Externs and closures are implemented:
  • An example of async tcp echo server based Nim externs asyncnet and asyncdispatcher.
  • An example of closures.
• While refactoring HaxeUI macros classes, Ian Harrigan has added the:
  • ability to construct HaxeUI custom components from XML metadata and better binding.
  • ability to create complete HaxeUI types (custom component classes) from XML files alone and also use them in code or markup.
• Two new projects by Mark Knol, Online haxe-formatter and LZString an LZ-based compression algorithm for Haxe.
• Pavel Alexandrov has released the source code to his Ludum Dare 42 entry Edgy Fantasy Battle Deluxe.
• A new project by 'Damilare Darmie Akinlaja called HXDL, which is a Haxe DirectMedia library (a Haxe wrapper for SDL, inspired by Lime).
• Armory Lightmapper is an addon for Armory3D that implements lightmapping and denoising capabilities for GI texture baking with support for HDR Lightmaps.
• Oleg Dolya’s Random compass rose generator is available on GitHub.

Closed Source

• A new GIF from Renaine, if he hot, he hop.
• A couple of GIFs from Jitter Sandbox by Syo, all objects, including particles, depend on dt and added panning for sound.
• Alex Johansson has made a late night game where you use frisbees as ping pong paddles, Frisbee + Table Tennis = FLING PONG and some close up footage of FLING PONG.
• It seems that Dan Korostelev is working on externs for Godot engine. A button in Godot responses with “Created from Haxe!” message, with a preview of the Haxe code for it.
• A playable demo of Darksburg was also presented by Shiro Games at TwitchCon Europe 2019 in Berlin, Germany on April 13-14.
• New screenshot from unnamed RPG game by Peter Achberger - Took me a day to parse and apply Tiled templates properly.
• New screenshot from Frontier Story by jmw.
• Ben Simms has added a scrolling ticker so he can update game news & give shoutouts in the app remotely.
• Aine is getting some new attacks in Renaine - reverse slash, down strike, and much more!
• Baron Von Darksburg is one of the main foes in Darksburg.
• Powerups of Attraction Force.

Some Library Releases

• hxdl git
• deepstate 0.13.2
• fuse 0.0.15
• HagglerVNE 1.1.0
• apollo 0.1.3
• react-next 1.114.0
• material-ui 0.14.7
• cobbles 0.3.0
• tink_hxx 0.22.0
• tink_parse 0.3.0
• mime 0.1.2
• json2object 3.6.1
• crypto 1.0.1-alpha
• no-vdom 0.4.1
• react-router-4 0.2.7
• hxp 1.1.2
• lzstring 0.0.1
• uglifyjs 0.0.91
• Checkout the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

• None this week.

People & Projects to support

• Robert Konrad, the Kha author, is creating Programming Toolkits.
• 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

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

• [crypto] Release 1.0.1-alpha Better performance for Java, CSharp and Python. Release.
• HaxeLib “boot” discussion.
• Weird modifier combinations with final methods issue.
• [hxcpp] Unicode fixes merged.

In case you missed it

• [display] Macro reification support issue.
• Disallow \xNN for values higher than 127 fixed.
• Unicode sys tests pull request.
• Fast version of startsWith/ endsWith merged.
• -java-lib on non Java targets issue.
• [python] Resources are not embedded issue.
• @:using not working on interfaces issue & discussion.
• Static extension @:using doesn’t seem to work on abstract fixed.
• @:using should work on typedefs issue.
• Reconstruct do-loops pull request.
• [php] Improve generation of anonymous objects declaration with a 50% speed improvement issue.

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!