Haxe Roundup 535

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

• Haxe 4.1.2 has been released!
• Devlog #2 for Go! Go! PogoGirl: Bouncing Science by Andrej.
• Village Generator 1.2.0 by Oleg Dolya is out, now with a new visual style, village renaming and more!
• A couple of posts by Feathers UI:
  • Feathers UI alpha.2 preview build on Haxelib.
  • Feathers UI extensions for Visual Studio Code.
• A couple of announcement posts from OpenFL forum:
  • OpenFL 8.9.7 Hotfix Release for Haxe 4.1.
  • Lime 7.8.0 Release.

Videos & Music

• A channel about Haxe and Typescript video by Richard Oliver Bray.
• How to use the Override keyword in Haxe video by Richard Oliver Bray.
• How to make your first RPG in 5 minutes for FREE (and publish it!) by RPG Playground.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• HaxeIn 2020 virtual Haxe Summit on October 14-17th 2020.
  • With Matthijs Kamstra and Lewis Lepton planning on submitting talk proposals.
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Alexander Gordeyko is looking for a job.
• Fedor Strelkov is looking for someone to port a car racing test app from AS3 to Haxe/OpenFL.
• A bounty to port junkbyte’s flash-console to OpenFL for $50.
• OpenFL/Lime Bounty to add playable video on iOS and Android for $1000.
• 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

• OpenFL powered Tilt trail bike game by IriySoft is now available to play.
• Jeffrey Driver announces The Grand Grimoire Chronicles 4 will be released on Armor Games and Newgrounds soon. Check out some screenshots while you wait. Made with Stencyl.
• The Steam version of BRDG by Robert Alvarez is now available.
• Egis has released a WebGL game Hamster-Ball made with OpenFL.

Code Examples

• Method chaining / Fluent interface design pattern examples.
• Chapter-2 of Kha’s MC tutorial on terrain generation by Urjasvi Suthar.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• jsImport git - Use ES6 imports in Haxe.
• haxeui-skeleton git - Basic skeleton for a HaxeUI backend by Ian Harrigan.
• Hugh Sanderson has created a website for the NME repo which is currently empty. So maybe there will be new website soon.
• Skyfire2008 continues his work on Spork acteroids, with 3 short devlogs linked on the main page, plus you can look into game’s source code on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Alex Johansson’s game 100% GOLF has passed 180k downloads.
• Ty watering procedurally generated plants made with HaxeFlixel.
• Jefvel has started working on an XML based dialogue system, which allows you to talk to strangers in their game. Dialogue is assigned using HIDE. Made with Heaps.
• JanoGames has made some adjustments to the sleazy agent and bouncers in StageDive. Made with Stencyl.
• Filippo Bodei indie game demos: sunrise time-lapse and drone trails made with HaxeFlixel.
• Updated camera movement and accessibility settings are coming in Renaine.
• Just some terrain with the grass by Dmitry Hryppa. Made with Haxe, bgfx, GLFW, GLM and his frmwrk git built on top of them.
• New card “A force field!” in Heck Deck by torcado pushes cards away from you without destroying them.
• Working on camera code might be hard: it just doesn’t follow the chuffing player.
• Things going good in Aditya Chaudhary puzzle game made in Stencyl.
• So now the Player in the WIP platformer game by Praeshima can collect crystals and gain a power ups.
• Pavel Alexandrov got the multi-texture support in Heaps’ TileGroup working. Now also need to introduce it in SpriteBatch and Graphics.
• Pavel Alexandrov has also decided to do an experiment with crowdfunding some of his work for the Heaps community, so he created a ko-fi page with the initial goals to write docs and manual. If it works out he’ll start delving into implementing new features, do bugfixes and other things.
• MondayHopscotch has been playing around with pseudo-rope physics & particle effects.
• Grass rendered with Kha and set out by HxNoise by 5Mixer. And edges look nice.
• Matthijs Kamstra is back to work on one of his old projects:
  • Working on a old project.
  • Still wrestling with maths.
• Mauve has shared his progress on WIP turn based puzzle game:
  • The last demo stage select map put together… we’re almost there.
  • Development log.
  • Adjusting colours a bit.

Some Library Releases

• buddy 2.12.1
• thenshim 1.1.1
• lime 7.8.0
• yaml 2.0.1
• astar 1.0.4
• monaco-externs 1.0.0
• faxe2 0.1.0-alpha
• haxefmod 0.5.0-alpha
• haxe-fmod 0.4.1-alpha
• feathersui 1.0.0-alpha.2
• tink_template 0.4.2
• exception 2.0.0
• riverbed 0.0.3
• openfl 8.9.7
• hxmath 0.17.0
• pallette 0.0.1
• deepstate 0.14.1
• Checkout the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

• The tink_core v2 update has been merged!

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 Shorthand nullable-type syntax 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 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.

• Unexpected behaviour for ~/\b/g.split() on some targets issue.
• Improve error reporting when accessing non-static fields as static fixed.
• Support covariance for abstracts issue.
• [nullsafety] Cannot disable field initialisation check with @:nullSafety(Off) fixed.
• Type parameter variance of enum proposal rejected.
• Default implementations in interfaces proposal rejected.
• Macro instances proposal rejected.
• Typed metadata proposal rejected.
• Abstract classes proposal accepted.
• Local Variable metadata proposal accepted and now implemented.
• ReadOnlyArray optimization proposal accepted.
• Retain type and field comments in output issue, closing the “comments in AST/target language” proposal.