Haxe Roundup 517

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

• Tabletop RPG Map editor II update 15 is out by Sébastien Bénard.
• Devlog #15 Bring the Mechanics Together by fedellen.
• Help the makers of SUPER Cute Alien find a new name! Any suggestion would be really helpful!
• Two new posts by Oleg Dolya, announcing the release of City Viewer 1.0.1 and the release of Blueprint editor for Procgen Mansion.
• You know there is #yeswekha hashtag for Kha, but now there is a new one - #hailtothekinc for Kinc. via Robert Konrad.

Videos & Music

• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Cory Martin will be showing his game Leapin Lads at The Game Dev House Party which is a funny coincidence as it happens to be on Leap Day.
• Osaka Red LLC are co-hosting a HaxeUp with CrashSpace taking place on April 6th in California.
• EU Haxe Summit 2020 - Let’s meet in Linz.
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Availability for work: Andreas Drewke is available for small to medium sized Flash/OpenFL projects!
• NX Studio (Moscow, Russia) are looking for a Haxe programmer to work on their game called “Throne Rush”.
• Shiro Games are recruiting for different roles to expand their studio and work on upcoming, exciting projects!
• Lars Doucet’s list of various open bounties.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Product Releases & Announcements

• Hello Lightbulb have updated the Scales: A Pangolin Story demo on itch.io. Now you can select levels and replay them to your hearts content.
• You can play the WIP version of StarBurst game by Ben Simms.

Code Examples

• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Heaps + ammo.js demo by Tong.
• Procedural generation of triangular glyphs by Carles Hernandez-Ferrer.
• New repo by George Corney: Gluon which is unified WebGL implementation for HXCPP with improved typing.
• Matthijs Kamstra:
  • is attempting to create spatter patterns in this latest creative code screenshot.
  • and working on drips…
  • and his wheel is rounder.
  • and has published cc-handdrawn where you can find source code for his new sketches.

Closed Source

• Fantomon is looking for someone who wants to join in a tiny tamagotchi-like side project.
• A little early screenshot of the Heaps-based game by Pirhana, a demo of the game will appear soon.
• Alex Johansson has released another update for his chess game, improved visual indicators and more, made in stencyl.
• Updated trailer for Steel Seraph, pre 1.7.0 with a new HUD, made with stencyl.
• Gauthier has made Inverted Pac-Man with Haxe and Phaser.
• fedellen shows off upcoming obstacles coming to their unicorn game.
• Sneak peek of KelinKelilin by Vsio made with HaxeFlixel.
• Early access roadmap for Darksburg by Shiro Games.
• Some one-way arrows by Robert Alvarez.
• A couple of GIFs from WIP turn based puzzle game by mauve:
  • barrel barrel BARREL BARREL!
  • Finished the new tileset.

Some Library Releases

• benched 0.2.0
• trie 1.1.1
• Tree_Map 1.1.0
• DomWires 1.0.0-alpha.1
• modular 0.12.0
• pony 1.1.1
• headbutt 0.6.0
• genes 0.0.1
• colyseus 0.12.3
• OpenFL-Animate-Atlas-Player 1.8.0
• Checkout the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

• None this week.

People & Projects to support

• Andy Li is working around the Haxe ecosystem: CI, packaging, docs and learning materials.
• Kevin Leung is creating open source software libraries.
• 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 Abstract classes proposal.
• Add ReadOnlyArray optimisation proposal.
• Carry comments through to target language proposal.
• Add support for on site getters & setters proposal.
• Add support for Self access for abstracts proposal.
• [RFC] Xml Dsl’s discussion.
• 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

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

• [draft] Start working on module-level functions pull request.

You can get started using the latest features by downloading a nightly build of Haxe and see the impact the latest changes have on each target by browsing the benchmarks site.

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!