Haxe Roundup 528

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

• The results for the Newgrounds HaxeFlixel game jam have been published!
• Code Wars now supports Haxe! via Noah Betzen. Here is the announcement post on the Haxe forum.
• Coconut.UI bootstrap library showcase by Mark Knol.
• Armory Digest May 2020. Join this months Armory3D community game competition!
• Renaine Kickstarter Update #28 - Growing the Team and Other Updates by Octosoft.
• Small Untitled RPG Devlog #7 by Peter Achberger.
• Kha has over 1k stars now, that’s more than 10% of CryEngine To celebrate the occasion, check out Kha’s and Kinc’s new mascot!. 🦜
• Extra Quarantine: Defender’s Quest 2 Progress for April 2020 by Lars Doucet.

Videos & Music

• Ep. 90 - Making Games with the Haxe Programming Language Part 2 by CodebaseAlpha.
• Quick-tip videos for Stencyl developers by Luyren:
  • Why you should use behavior’s.
  • Know the Basic Events.
  • Use Custom Events.
  • Get and Set Attributes.
  • Beware of Friction.
  • Know your Collisions.
  • Check for non Collisions.
• 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

• Playata are looking for a AS3/Haxe/PHP Software Developer to join them.
• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.
• Lars Doucet’s list of various open bounties.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Product Releases & Announcements

• Dolorosa has arrived in Darksburg.
• Gummywormz has released TrashLand onto itch.io.
• Full Moon Coffee is a game created by Oleg Dolya for Adventure Jam 2020.
• The first Stencyl game port by Ratalaika just got QA-approved on Switch & Xbox One, while still waiting for PS4. If you have any Haxe or Stencyl games and want porting let them know!
• Shaman4d has created a few variations of tetris game:
  • TetrisHx in zen mode.
  • ColumnsHx.
  • ColorConjuctionHx.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Lubos Lenco has released Armory3D 2020.5.
• Experimenting with Angle Gradients on 2D polygons by Nanjizal.
• BASS MASTER ONLINE by Austin East is open sourced!
• Urjasvi Suthar has released Rice2D 2020.5.0. Check out the 2-player Pong clone example.
• Sausage Redemption made by Gauthier Billot for BBQJAM #1. The game is open sourced.
• Kaelan Evans continues his work on Haxe port of Doom:
  • Tried reasoning out my own triangulation algorithm. Everything seemed fine on paper, but it did not work in practice.
  • Getting closer to floor drawing in Doom.
  • Finally worked out how to sort the vertex data per sector in a way I can start triangulating the data.

Closed Source

• Editing in Marching Cubes by Urjasvi Suthar.
• Here are some new Phantom Path screenshots. The release is near, so stay tuned! Wishlist the game on Steam.
• New quick video from Skullz’n’Skeletons by Pizza.
• What will he decide… from Leapin Lads by Cory Martin.
• New quick video from WIP turn based puzzle game by mauve.
• Quick video showing breakable platforms in “Go! Go! Pogo Girl” by Andrej.
• GIFs from new WIP Stencyl based game by Robert Alvarez:
  • Working on a new one-button game.
  • Added some rotation changing pickups.
  • These blocks turn off when switching from one side to another.
• A couple of GIFs by Lewis Lepton, showing his experiments with collisions:
  • Collision with rotation.
  • This is fine.
  • Trapped doing tests.
• A couple of quick videos from WIP Stencyl based game by Ben Simms:
  • Loads of tweaking to do, but at least one dude is talking…
  • Added some “moody” lighting.

LD46 “Keep it alive”

In case you missed missed it.

• Brawnfire .
• 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

• coconut.react-dom 0.3.0
• tink_domspec 0.3.0
• cobbles 0.100.1
• coconut.react-core 0.2.1
• kha 16.1.3
• coconut.vdom 0.8.1
• coconut.diffing 0.2.1
• coconut.ui 0.11.2
• dropecho.dungen 0.4.0
• dropecho.interop 0.0.1
• DomWires 1.0.0-alpha.13
• echo 1.4.2
• tink_state 0.11.1
• tink_pure 0.5.2
• tink_anon 0.5.1
• coconut.data 0.10.1
• openfl-aseprite 1.2.0
• aseprite-lua 0.0.2
• faxe2 0.2.0
• Rice2D 2020.5.0
• tink_semver 0.1.0
• tink_htmlstring 0.1.0
• resize 1.2.0
• hxnodejs-node-jose 1.0.1
• test-adapter 1.2.8
• travix 0.14.1
• transition 1.0.8
• pony 1.2.7
• rit5 0.0.1
• 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

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

• Compiler is not renaming name clashes fixed.
• [eval] StringBuf with emojis throws uncatchable exception fixed.
• [php] Array class should implement the native Countable interface fixed.
• final not respected by write access with unrelated constructor fixed.