Haxe Roundup 520

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

• Armory3D has its own roundups! Check out the Armory Digest - March 2020!
• ArmorPaint launches on Android - development builds are up, with support for pen pressure, touch, keyboard, mouse and mirroring to big screen. iOS will follow!
• Sébastien Bénard has written a complete guide to getting started making games using Haxe and the Heaps engine, the same tech used for DeadCells.
• Ammer and Anvil: Haxe Native Extension Toolkit - community thread.
• The Stencyl team are planning to do a Stencyl Jam in a couple of weeks from now!
• Fedellen’s latest devlog #18: Holographic dolphins.
• Dead Cells won the first Pegase of the ceremony which is the reward for the Best Mobile Game!

Videos & Music

• Luyren Stencyl Tutorial Series #2: RPG Elements by Vítor Eduardo.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• 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

• New bounty by Kaleido Games: Bounty to make OpenFL work with (FNA/UWP).
• 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 been busy making a game for #AustisticaPlayJam which is now live on itch.io!
• Oleg Dolya has submitted Book Hunter in the last minutes of #7DRL made with Haxe and OpenFL, available on itch.io.
• U-Ge! by Funplox is now being submitted to AppStore and GooglePlay.
• Rogue Mage by Ben Simms has gone live on KaiOS app store! The game is made with Stencyl.
• danausApollo from Haxe discord has released Chat Cafe game made with HaxeFlixel.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• SyncTube git is a synchronized video viewing with chat and other features.
• nme-enhance git by Hugh Sanderson - Interface to the enhance.co mobile extensions.
• Haxe Open Database Connectivity Native Extension: HxDBC git is a native-extension library for the ammer FFI/stub code generator.
• Gioele Bencivenga is making his first ever game with HaxeFlixel for a school project.
• “Just flip it, easily, quick and stupid simple” Matthijs Kamstra using mirrored animation for a quick good looking animation. And another animation “just mirrored” combined with character animation!

Closed Source

• Footage from the Sonar Smash android beta using Explosive Shot to its finest! Coming April 8th on iOS, Android, PC and Mac!
• Gregory Seed is actively working on a DLC for his puzzle free game Little Square Things.
• A quick video playthrough of Ben Simms game Star Burst, featuring all the latest changes! Made with Stencyl.
• Moving along the path in JitterSandbox by Syo.
• WIP stage select screen from turn based puzzle game by mauve.
• Introducing the Darksburg Leaderboard.
• Alex Johansson showcases his snazzy pickup with a sonar pulse animation, which shoots out a ring of bullets when collected for his latest game The Belt, made with Stencyl.
• Alex Johansson also has made his own spin on 2048 where you’re cleaning files up on an old computer’s desktop. Check out the game running on mobile.
• Alex Johansson has also updated UI for Morse.
• A couple of GIFs / videos from WIP Stencyl game by Robert Alvarez:
  • Made some test levels and improved the background.
  • Some blocks don’t combine with others and just get in the way.
• A couple of new GIFs from Heck Deck by torcado:
  • A progress shot of the next boss.
  • It’s got turrets too…

Some Library Releases

• hxnodejs 12.0.0
• dox 1.3.0
• OpenFL-Animate-Atlas-Player 1.9.2
• tink_hxx 0.23.0
• tink_anon 0.5.0
• tink_domspec 0.2.0
• coconut.data 0.10.0
• tink_macro 0.19.0
• datetime 3.1.3
• p2p 0.1.40
• vscode-debugadapter 1.39.0
• ripper 0.1.0
• sneaker 0.3.1
• hxid3 1.0.0
• fuzzaldrin 0.1.1
• vscode 1.43.0
• deepnightLibs 0.0.34
• no-vdom 0.5.0
• csss 0.6.0
• reaxe 1.0.4
• pony 1.2.2
• electron 8.1.0
• Checkout the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

• None this week.

People & Projects to support

• Alexander Gordeyko is developing Pony, a Haxe open-cross-library.
• 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

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

• [jvm] Implement typed functions merged with before & after bench.
• [macro/extern] macro functions in extern's default to private issue.
• Immediately bound constructor closures create redundant functions issue.
• [cs/java/jvm] Clean up -main handling merged.

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!