Haxe Roundup № 488

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

• Two weeks left to back Feathers UI for Haxe and OpenFL.
• If Feathers UI can get to $10K, the Moonshine IDE team guarantees $15K to reach the Kickstarter goal!
• War Stories: Designing Dead Cells was a marriage of man and machine - an interview with Dead Cells lead designer Sébastien Bénard.
• A new role based access control library for Haxe has been released!
• Write your first ‘Hello World’ Game Screen in 5 seconds with HaxeFlixel by Priyansh Sangule.
• Procgen Mansion by Oleg Dolya has been updated: size selection, floor plans export and lots of small visual improvements.
• Defender’s Quest 2 Progress: February - July 2019 by Lars Doucet.

In case you missed it

• New update on Feathers UI Kickstarter campaign: SWF targets now enabled in the OpenFL version of Feathers UI!
• New ArmorPaint builds are up! Now with curvature baker, 16/32bit painting, .exr export, undo for layer operations, custom keymaps and 256 layers per project!
• Flaxe - A Flash/AS2/AS3 conversion helper by Eric Bishton.
• Gamedevbynight has made an extern generator for OpenUI5. Checkout the externs themselves and examples repo.
• 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!
• 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.

Videos & Music

• Shader Tutorial Series - EP027 - Image color.
• Shader Tutorial Series - EP028 - Image manipulate.
• Checkout the Darksburg PvP trailer!
• Armory3d - Dissolve Tutorial video by Armory Blender.
• SciAnts Evolved Gameplay Trailer [BETA] by Axol Studio (the game is being made with HaxeFlixel).
• 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

• Tankzors Lux (made with Kha) by RblSb has been released onto Android.
• Attraction Force by Ohsat Games will be released on July 26th 2019.
• BREAK N TAKE by Alex Johansson is available for preorder on iOS. The game will be released on 28th of August 2019. Alex has also prepared a press kit for the game.

In case you missed it

• Anders Nissen has released his Stoneset game onto iOS.
• The Signature Edition of Northgard is available to pre-order now for XBox One, PS4 and Nintendo Switch.

Code Examples

• Threading macro like Clojure and pipe operator article.
• 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

• Jeff Ward has been playing with SDF‏ and Heaps.io. Checkout the web version of his experiment and the source code.
• A little bit of fun with HaxeUI bitmap themes from Ian Harrigan.
• Guilherme Recchi C. forked Sébastien Bénard’s game jam project template and removed all Motion Twin closed source code. Checkout the itch.io template page and the GitHub repo.
• Proof of concept by Matthijs Kamstra that his creative coding library can switch between canvas and SVG rendering.

Closed Source

• Headbang Club are working hard on Double Kick Heroes!
• Cross promo popup for BREAK N TAKE integrated in other games by Alex Johansson.
• New GIF from the game by Austin East.
• Spooky GIF from the WIP 2D adventure game (made with Kha) by 1speed studio.
• Bulbombs in Renaine are territorial desert plants which fire mortal seeds at intruding knights. Jump over them and they’ll unleash a sneaky vine attack!
• Debugging in Renaine can look kinda funky.
• Flappy Nerd - a GIF from an upcoming platformer game Joe Williamson.
• Super simple platform game by Hello Lightbulb using assets from Phaser tutorials.
• New GIFs from Dicey Dungeons by Terry Cavanagh:
  • Select your episode!
  • Finishing up the last episodes.

Some Library Releases

• electron 5.0.7
• echo 0.5.1
• fuse 0.0.25
• h2dTiled 0.0.1
• bitmap 0.1.2
• stablexui 1.2.4
• hxWidgets 1.0.3
• RBXHaxe 1.0.1
• Checkout the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

In case you missed it

• Performance improvement proposals for Geometrize-Haxe discussion.
• [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

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

• Fix implicit return of arrow functions for :Void pull request.

In case you missed it

• HashLink 1.10 released.
• Date improvements merged.
• Add Context.info(msg,pos) merged.
• [js] Improve TypedArray merged.
• Add js.lib.Number pull request
• Context warnings API merged.
• Add Context.info(msg,pos) merged.
• [cs] Add using statements via @:csUsing 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.

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!