Haxe Roundup № 486

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

• A sneak peek of the new Design Mode coming to Stencyl.
• A new FeathersUI Kickstarter reward has been added for a $250 pledge.
• Dice Dice Baby is a little Dicey Dungeons update by Terry Cavanagh.
• Jeff Ward has written some details about how to add hxScout / hxTelemetry profiler support into frameworks. Kha support is currently being discussed.

In case you missed it

• Kickstarter: Feathers UI for Haxe and OpenFL has officially launched!
• Haxe Toolkit plugin v1.2 for IntelliJ IDEA, Android Studio, and other JetBrains’ products is now available. Includes 2019.x support!
• Contributing to the Haxe Manual is easier than ever!
• Ian Harrigan has created a Haxe to Maven transpiler plugin.
• Juraj Kirchheim is looking into putting together a Haxe coding camp on Coconut (a reactive UI framework).
• The Official release of Haxe 4.0.0-rc.3 has been announced, including the new JVM target, improved Unicode support and IDE services!
• Vshaxe 2.13.0 and a brand-new extension for the lix package manager are now available in the VSCode marketplace.
• Green tests are nice, but what about coverage?. A post on the state of coverage, mostly in VSCode.
• Two millions copies of Dead Cells have been sold!.
• 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!

Videos & Music

• Shader Tutorial Series - EP023 - Morph grid.
• Shader Tutorial Series - EP024 - Circle color pulse.
• Checkout the trailer for BREAK N TAKE, an extraterrestrial arcade experience of battering buildings with plasma balls and flinging flailing humans into orbit!
• Checkout the trailer for Trigono, an arcade puzzle game.
• A quick video about OTO by Lewis Lepton.
• The Brinker has tried Haxe with Roblox and made a short video summary of their attempt.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• None this week.
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• A new job offer involving Haxe in Copenhagen at Laerdal Copenhagen.
• Bounty (up to 250 US$) for finishing the implementation UWP (WINRT) using ANGLE (in Lime).
• Nevosoft Inc (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) are looking for a Haxe developer to join Charm Farm team.
• Room 8 Studio (Kiev, Ukraine) are looking for a C#/Haxe developer.
• Inno Games are looking for a Frontend (Haxe) developer (btw, you could apply through Dan Korostelev, who is working at Inno Games).
• Poptropica game are looking for a remote Haxe developer to convert Flash games to web and mobile.
• Haxe developers wanted in Montreal to join Mino Games.
• Julie Games are looking for a Haxe/C# programmer to join their team in Moscow, Russia.
• 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!
• 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 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

• The Signature Edition of Northgard is available to pre-order now for XBox One, PS4 and the Nintendo Switch.
• Trigono has been released, now available on iOS.
• Perfect Fit is a puzzle game (made in Stencyl) about removing triangular segments from hexagons until no parts remain. It’s available on iOS and Android.
• Total Party Kill by Jussi Simpanen is now available on Steam, Android and iOS.
• New game release: funy slug game by gummywormz.

In case you missed it

• Latest version of RPG Map 2 by Sébastien Bénard is out, adding fog/darkness, water, new fonts, map imports and more.
• New game by Stephen Lavelle - steurungsbefehlverfuegbarkeitskachelmarkierungsverwaltungsgeraet, made with OpenFL.
• Anders Nissen has released his free mobile puzzle game Stoneset on Android!

Code Examples

• Prototype SSL Socket Server article.
• Haxe to Emscripten article.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Generative art sketches by Matthijs Kamstra are back!
  • Randomizing the shapes.
  • Beautiful … but not what I was going for…

Closed Source

• New GIF from Heck Deck by torcado: New enemy, poker chips.
• New GIF from Austin East: cookin up some mushrooms tonight.
• Some NPCs could be recruited temporarily in a mission in Hegemone Pass by Ingénoire.
• Checkout Alex Johansson’s game cabinets, at the Super Warehouse indie party organized by Joypad.
• Plus a couple of BREAK N TAKE videos by Alex Johansson:
  • A casual city destruction over a pint!
  • Got a little shop tutorial operational!
• A couple of videos from “Pixel Hero” by Ben Simms:
  • Now there are elements of luck and skill to get the ultimate result!
  • Implemented a drag & draw system for designing pixelart characters.
• A couple of videos from Phantom Path by Kirill Poletaev:
  • Preview of one of the levels in the “city ruins” chapter.
  • The puzzles in chapter 2 of the game span multiple floors, and include new mechanics, such as the arcane bridge.

Some Library Releases

• hijson git
• better-hx git
• swagger-hx-codegen git
• callfunc 0.2.1
• event-types 0.7.0
• chrome-extension 75.0.0
• Nice 2.4.2
• robotlegs 1.3.0
• SvgBitmapFont 0.0.10
• tink_domspec 0.1.5
• tink_svgspec 0.0.1
• jasper 0.0.1
• towser 0.0.2
• tink_macro 0.17.7
• tink_core 1.23.0
• argan 1.0.5
• formatter 1.8.1
• pixi-flump-runtime 4.7.1
• Checkout the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

In case you missed it

• [tink_sql] Revive std driver and start sqlite pull request.
• [nme] NME now supports Gradle and multi-APK architecture support on Android.

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 platform 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 Self access for abstracts proposal.
• Add support for Readable and Writable constraints proposal.
• [RFC] Xml Dsl’s discussion.
• Add new Sys API’s 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

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

• [cs] Add using statements via @:csUsing pull request.
• Add Context.info(msg,pos) merged.
• [js] Improve TypedArray merged.
• Date tests and issues pull request.

In case you missed it

• Add js.lib.Number pull request
• Context warnings API merged.
• Add Context.info(msg,pos) merged.
• Hold error/warning messages while trying to unify call arguments pull request.
• [hxcs] Allow using -D hxcs.DEFINE and add documentation pull request.
• [cs] Enable sys.thread API merged.
• [cs] Add support for .NET core -D netcore_ver merged.
• [hxcs] Add .NET core netlibs merged.
• [cs] Add support for native cs type parameter constraints merged.
• Rework iterator/iterable/array access resolving in for loops merged.
• [hxcpp] Improve build times, linear instead of quadratic, relative to the number of files merged.

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!