Haxe Roundup 543

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

• OpenFL 9 is here! 🎉
• Stencyl 4.0.3 has been officially released! 🎉
• Double Turn Combat Experiment #2: Environmental Stuns devlog by Kenny Goff.
• Jim Stormdancer wrote a blog post “How I Modernized My Flash Game”.

Videos & Music

• 5 Reasons why I enjoy using HaxeFlixel and why you should give it a try video by Richard Oliver Bray.
• Create RPG’s on Android, iPhone & iPad with RPG Playground. RPG Playground’s YouTube channel has reached 400 subscribers, so 5 new dog characters have been released.
• Armorpaint | Hydrant - Getting Started #0 by ArmoryBlender.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Go! Go! PogoGirl by Andrej will be at SAGE 2020 September 5th-12th.
• HaxeIn 2020 virtual Haxe Summit on October 14-17th 2020.
  • Matthijs Kamstra is planning on submitting a talk proposal.
  • Lewis Lepton has submitted his talk for the HaxeIn, called “Do can? Teaching I good”.
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Looking for work

• Justin Mills is looking for a fulltime job. Justin is an ex Flash/AIR/Away3D/Papervision3D expert who’s been using Haxe for 10 years, a good lateral thinker & loves visual stuff, maths and capable at fine art.
• Andreas Drewke is looking for a part time job.
• Kevin Leung is wondering if any Haxe Australian companies are hiring?
• Torcado is looking for a publisher/indie fund to help him fund the rest of the development for Heck Deck. He would love to know any recommendations you may have.

Job listings

• MY.GAMES (Moscow, Russia) are looking for Haxe programmer to work on UI system for their new game project Warface: Breakout.
• Spiele-Palast GmbH are looking for a full time Haxe game developer for web and mobile in Berlin.

Bounties

• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.
• Lars Doucet’s list of various open bounties.

Product Releases & Announcements

• Bitmapkid has released kurushi to itch.io for #LOWRESJAM 2020. Check out the devlog for in-depth details.
• HotDog 64 made for #LOWREZJAM 2020 using HaxeFlixel, FMOD, FL Studio and Pyxel Edit.
• Alex Lanzetta has released the Haxe port of A.R.B.F.
• 100 vacas by Edu Alonso is now available for purchase with a 15% launch discount!
• StateGo, a visual programming tool has added support for Haxe. Check out their sample project on GitHub.
• Even the Ocean originally made with HaxeFlixel has been ported by Ratalaika Games to game consoles: PlayStation 4, XBox One and Switch.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• GlassySundew previews the command bridge for the Pascal class ship mockup made in Heaps. Check out the pre-production source code of the game.
• Adrain Veith has revived the nim lang experimental target, with the first benchmarks showing good performance compared to other targets.
• HxDoom 0.0.6 alpha has been released.
• LunaTea git is a Haxe Core Library for RPGMaker MZ/MV plugin and tool development.
• hx-quadtree git - Fast, optimized and configurable collision-detection library with Quad Trees.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Defenders Quest 2 progress tweet by Lars Doucet.
• Mine Blocks, in beta, is a classic Flash game being rewritten in Haxe, currently 20% complete.
• Michael Bickel had the need for some high performance graphs for real time web based monitoring, so he made it with Haxe, React, UIKit, WebGL, Web Workers and Web Assembly.
• Edu Alonso shares a deNaves update showing bombs and a HUD, which was mentioned in last weeks roundup.
• Saving & loading implemented for Skullz 'n Skeletonz by Pizza.
• Help save your aging guitarist - bat away the pint glasses in Stage Dive by Jano Games.
• Redrawn player sprites for WIP turn based puzzle game by mauve.
• Andrej patrons can now play an early demo of Go! Go! PogoGirl!.
• A few GIFs from Go! Go! PogoGirl by Andrej:
  • I…I don’t think this is right.
  • Never mind I fixed it.
  • So, I wanted to make the gems flash again to make them look more fancy. Think I overdid it?

Some Library Releases

• utest 1.13.1
• openfl 9.0.2
• coconut.react-core 0.2.2
• tink_lang 0.7.0
• tink_hxx 0.24.3
• dataclass 2.2.1
• HxDoom 0.0.6-alpha
• dropecho.lib_example 0.5.2
• vscode 1.48.0
• test-adapter 1.2.9
• swf 3.0.0
• Check out the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

• None this week.

People & Projects to support

• Ian Harrigan is working on primarily HaxeUI, as well as hxArduino & hxWebSockets.
• Kaelan Evans is working on HxDoom, a Haxe adaption of Doom.
• Richard Oliver Bray is teaching people the things he’s learnt, like React, Typescript and Haxe.
• 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 destructive assignments proposal.
• Add notation for native optional arguments proposal.
• Add Matcher: setting variables and guard as expression in a pattern proposal.
• Add Single pattern check proposal.
• 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

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