Haxe Roundup 526

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

• Village Generator 1.1.0 devlog. Waterbodies and PNG export have been added by Oleg Dolya.
• A little trip through dependencies and accompanying difficulties by Nikolay Grebenshikov.
• Version 1.0.0 of Scales: A Pangolin Story by Hello Lightbulb is out! And its source code available too!

Videos & Music

• WTF is Haxe by Pontus Alexander.
• Part 3 of Stencyl Resource Packs tutorial series by Luyren.
• Creating materials for Minecraft RTX in ArmorPaint via Lubos Lenco.
• Dynamic Rope implementation in Haxe + Heaps + Nape video by Edwin Syarief.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Newgrounds is hosting the HaxeFlixel Game Jam, ending on April 27th! With prizes ranging from $50-$350.
• EU Haxe Summit 2020 - Let’s meet in Linz.
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features and one of the them is already claimed.
• 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

• Ratalaika has finished his first port of the Stencyl game and sent it to QA for PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch! Hopefully it will be released in a few weeks. So if you have a Stencyl game and want to port it to consoles let them know!
• Sokoban game demo built with Haxe + OpenFL. Made by shaman4d.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

LD46 “Keep it alive”

• JarHeads by Aurel300.
• The Little Ship That Could by Gama11 (made with HaxeFlixel).
• Tumble Baby by Will Blanton (made with HaxeFlixel).
• Keep it Alive, Keep them Alive by Jérémy Fa (made with ceramic engine).
• Corona Grocery Run by sneaky cocoon (made with Heaps).
• “Covid Conundrum” Civil Policy Simulator by merrak (made with Stencyl).
• Mr.Virus by Blackgoku36 (made with Kha and Rice2D).
• Fire Logs by Joaquin Bello (made with Kha and khawy).
• Save Ivee by Piotr (made with HaxeFlixel).
• Bastion Defender by AxG (made with PixiJS and Pony).
• JUMPGOLF by torcado (made with Stencyl).
• Tower Defence of the Heart by Terry Cavanagh (made with Heaps).
• Keep It Powered by Robert Alvarez (made with Stencyl).
• Keep On by Cory Martin (made with Stencyl).
• Mis Vacas by Edu Alonso and hhmod-mus (made with HaxeFlixel).
• Anibun Help Me! by Dan Lin (made with HaxeFlixel).
• DEBUGGER by Ruari O’Sullivan (made with OpenFL and haxegon).
• Crystalium by Andrei Rudenko (made with clay engine).
• Feed King or Die Starving by jefvel and rosettastoned (made with Heaps).
• Soul Seed by Unept (made with Stencyl).
• Pet Protecc TD by Mlle. Psychosis (made with HaxeFlixel).
• Let’s stick together by Sergij Kryvosheia (Syo) (made with Heaps).
• Keep it alive by ZwodahS (made with Heaps).
• Delivery Space Attack by ck656 (made with HaxeFlixel).
• Morphology by Theodote, Elvendan, Shess and Pavel Alexandrov (made with Heaps).
• None left Behind by pirhana (made with Heaps).
• Save the Space Whales! by Aik (made with HaxeFlixel).
• Big Monster Bird by Fab.
• ANTRUM is an unfinished entry by disktree (made with Armory3D), with source code.

Open Source

• Check out Gauthier Billot’s new interactive website! With a fully functional OS! Made in Haxe
• HaxeFlixel game jam repository template has been released, the best part, automated deployment of HTML5 builds to GitHub Pages!
• 2D vector generated die, (no textures), demo by Nanjizal.
• Ilya Kuzmichev has made quick and dirty build of Haxe Support plugin for support for new IntelliJ IDEA 2020.1.
• Small update for HxDoom being made in Haxe and Lime, Kaelan Evans has reduced memory usage from 300mb to about 80mb.
• Jonas Nyström has updated HxTrueType.
• haxe-strings v6.0.1 has been released.
• Haxe-concurrent v3.0.0 has been released.
• Colyseus-hx v0.13.0 has been released.
• Aseprite files as OpenFL sprites.
• Couple of tweets from Ian Harrigan about HaxeUI:
  • HaxeUI Heaps has some life breathed into it again.
  • A bit of Sunday fun theming HaxeUI using KenneyNL’s free assets!

Closed Source

• Stage select code complete from WIP turn based puzzle game by mauve.
• Luyren has added parallax camera movement to their Utility Pack, and also added an HTML5 showcase game for both that and the Map System pack.
• Austin East redid his networking project to replace socket.io with colyseus. Check out this gif that is showing the client-side interpolation system he wrote.
• Moving spikes are fun by Andrej.
• Pavel Alexandrov is working on plugin for HIDE, the Heaps IDE. Here are couple of screenshots, tile coords editor and Photoshop-like outline shader.
• Praelian is working on the boss encounter with HaxeFlixel.
• A bunch of new quick videos from WIP Stencyl based game by Ben Simms with more at his Twitter:
  • A quick video demoing the mechanics and the art.
  • A little introduction level.
  • Ability to flip gravity.
  • 3rd power - Pausing time!
  • Added the ability to speed up time.

Some Library Releases

• travix 0.14.0
• haxe-files 2.0.0
• dropecho.lib_example 0.1.8
• dropecho.storygen 0.2.3
• haxe-concurrent 3.0.0
• tink_json 0.10.1
• haxe-strings 6.0.1
• awe6 2.10.564
• haxe-doctest 3.1.0
• openflFilesystem 1.0.7
• openfl-aseprite 1.0.0
• ase 0.9.1
• colyseus-websocket 1.0.7
• formatter 1.10.2
• tokentree 1.0.27
• Spork 0.1.0
• Checkout the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

• [tink_web] Facade for tink_web discussion.
• [coconut.ui] Multiple backends now supported.

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.
• 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 Default implementations in interfaces proposal.
• 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.

• Large file support discussion.