Haxe Roundup 546

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 Toolkit plugin v1.3.1 for IntelliJ IDEA, Android Studio, and other JetBrains products is now available!
• Dan Ogles, Director of Gameplay at Proletariat Inc, talks about Spellbreak being written with Haxe.
• Spellbreak has 2 million players, 5 days after launch!
• Switching to a new Tech Stack by tizilogic.
• Perilous Shores 1.0.2: tags, dunes and improved UI by Oleg Dolya.
• Path-traced viewport and ray-traced baking in ArmorPaint now runs on both Direct3D12 and Vulkan, Windows and Linux, Nvidia and the upcoming AMD cards.
• LunaTechs MV/MZ Plugins & Tools by LunaTechsDev.

Videos & Music

• How to add/load a 2D sprite to a game in HaxeFlixel video by Richard Oliver Bray.
• When to use Singletons video by Richard Oliver Bray.
• OSS Development Livestreaming recording by Thomas J. Webb from Osaka Red LLC.
• Bitesize Heaps.io Tutorial Part 1 video.
• BiteSize Heaps.io Tutorial Part 2: Basic 2D Stuff video.
• BiteSize Heaps.io Tutorial Part 3.1: Flappy Bird video.
• BiteSize Heaps.io Tutorial Part 3.2: Flappy Bird video.
• Genie Quest - Trailer - A match 3 game that is made entirely with Starling/OpenFL. This game is in soft launch currently.
• 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 has submitted his Haxe talk for the HaxeIn Summit.
  • Lewis Lepton’s talk hasn’t been accepted. But he’s going to record it anyway…
• 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

• Austin East introduces Wet Jet Racing, an extreme jet ski racer and a game made for #GBJAM using HaxeFlixel.
• Go! Go! PogoGirl demo is available. It features 3 levels and lots of bouncing!
• Dicey Dungeons v1.9 is going to be released on the 14th of September. via Terry Cavanagh.
• Poor Thief! To win, you must die by Tom Brinton is coming to iOS October 15th and available for preorder.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Snekky 0.3.0 release.
• [tink_state] Version 1 merged.
• PXShadow has released Weblink git, which links Hashlink to the web as a HTTP server. Also check out the early benchmarks.
• zenclip git - Like a Promise you can Pause.
• exmock git - A mocking library for Haxe.
• hxprompts git - Haxe externs for prompts by inc0der
• hlcairo git - Aiming to be Cairo bindings for Hashlink repository.
• HeapsBallBounce git - Ball bounce game made with Heaps.
• psgg-mermaid-flow git by stategotool.
• A minimum Heaps project to play around with Firedancer by FAL.
• FAL has also added some more Firedancer examples.
• Auto-layers are coming in next LEd update (not released yet).
• Open Source Game Code for OpenFL projects.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Juriën Meerlo is working on a small puzzle game where you connect power to lights.
• Vsio is implementing stage selection in their KelinKelin game made with HaxeFlixel.
• Michael Bickel is testing his platform and components for his future Haxe drone swarm brain. 🧠
• Benny Heller released a demo of a little infinite-runner metroidvania “Arachnowopunk”.
• Robert Alvarez has started working on a puzzle game where you shoot to slide:
  • Shooting through portals.
  • Shoot blocks to push them and also crush enemies.
• Some quick videos by tizilogic:
  • Procrastinating just a little bit…
  • It was empty w/o platforms… had to be done…
  • Custom slider widget.
  • Starting to connect the visual widgets with functionality… slider can slide!
  • In-game UI just got INCEPTION like capabilities: Frames, that can be nested inside other frames and scrolled through individually.

Some Library Releases

• firedancer 0.1.3
• utils 1.1.4
• grig.osc 0.0.1
• haxefmod 0.7.1-alpha
• banker 0.7.1
• dropecho.langgen 0.5.0
• tink_core 2.0.0-rc.1
• notifier 1.1.24
• dropecho.storygen 0.8.0
• Check out the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

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

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

• Method closure sameness discussion.
• Per-thread event loop has been merged.
• --no-inline is broken issue.