Haxe Roundup 527

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

• Do you want a colour named after Haxe? Well, you can vote for it!
• A brief Haxe Tutorial by John Gabriele.
• Heaps Cool Guide Part 1 by jefvel.
• The Stencyl jam 19 results have been announced!
• The HaxeFlixel Newgrounds game jam was a great success with a total of 24 games being submitted!
• Tom Rhodes has created a little one pager for a friend to try and drum up some online teaching business.
• Sébastien Bénard has written Part 3 - Distributing a Haxe project and Part 4 - Localize texts using PO files.
• FeathersUI Haxe OpenFL devlog: TreeView, optimised virtual layouts in ListView, GridView progress, PageIndicator, PageNavigator and more.
• Josh Tynjala has posted a thread about how the Haxe/OpenFL version of FeatherUI is coming along.
• Updating the Haxe-FMOD integration for Windows and Web.
• Haxe devs are a different kind of weird You can run Haxe code and use a Haxe library on Discord. via 'Damilare Darmie Akinlaja.

Videos & Music

• Real time path tracing in ArmorPaint by Lubos Lenco.
• Implementing dynamic rope in the learning project (Haxe + Heaps + Nape) by Edwin Syarief.
• Playing Newgrounds HaxelFlixel Jam Games twitch stream by Joe Williamson.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• 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

• Nothing found this week.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Kenney-ui HaxeUI theming is coming along nicely by Ian Harrigan.
• Some material like styling with HaxeUI by Adrian Veith, which they are going share code next week.
• Jefvel has created his Heaps Game Base template.
• Terry Cavanagh has created “terryheaps”, a personal framework to make games with Heaps.
• Pavel Alexandrov has published the source code of his Ludum Dare games made with Haxe and Heaps.

Closed Source

• Breakable glass platforms in Go! Go! PogoGirl will respawn once they’re offscreen.
• Pizza’s progress on Skullz 'n Skeletonz quick video.
• Andrej is having fun bouncing around in his own game.
• Atlas editor plugin for HIDE by Pavel Alexandrov is now more or less complete. He is planning to make it publicly available after some fixes and internal testing.
• Robert Alvarez is making extra levels for a post-jam version of “Keep It Powered”.
• Not so perfect, but this is Dmitry Hryppa’s first water done in 3D. Made with Haxe and BGFX.
• GlassySundew has shared new GIF from his WIP Heaps base game: new generated models for dropped items.
• Unfortunately DrowsySound couldn’t finish his game for the NG Haxe Jam. Check out their mock up.
• Twitter devlogs from Alex Johansson:
  • 100% GOLF dev update.
  • New stuff for 100% GOLF.
  • BULLET HELL CHESS screenshot Saturday. Check out the tasty music!
• Screenshots from WIP Stencyl based game by Ben Simms:
  • Playing with some bloom effects.
  • Trying out new tiles…
  • Some mobile action!

LD46 “Keep it alive”

In case you missed it.

• 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.

Some Library Releases

• keyboard 1.1.0
• tink_io 0.8.0
• tink_streams 0.3.3
• tink_hxx 0.24.1
• tink_parse 0.4.0
• tink_json 0.10.3
• tink_testrunner 0.8.0
• tink_unittest 0.7.0
• tink_cli 0.5.1
• raven 0.6.0
• tink_web 0.2.1
• tink_lang 0.6.3
• tink_macro 0.19.1
• redistHelper 0.4.4
• deepnightLibs 0.0.40
• openfl-aseprite 1.1.0
• ase 1.0.0
• faxe2 0.1.15
• spork 0.3.0
• electron 8.2.4
• dropecho.fsm 0.2.1
• dropecho.behavior_tree 0.1.0
• dropecho.langgen 0.4.0
• hxtelemetry 0.4.0
• urxvt-pixbuf 0.1.0
• tink_hxx 0.24.0
• broker 0.2.0
• banker 0.5.0
• ripper 0.3.1
• sneaker 0.9.0
• prayer 0.1.1
• sinker 0.1.0
• tink_template 0.4.1
• xDOM 0.2.2
• dropecho.storygen 0.6.4
• colyseus 0.13.1
• hxtf 2.0.2
• dropecho.dungen 0.2.0
• dropecho.ds 0.2.0
• submit 0.2.1
• tink_typecrawler 0.6.4
• tink_url 0.4.2
• Checkout the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

• None found 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.
• 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

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

• Nothing found this week.