Haxe Roundup 548

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

• Welcome to Kinc & Kha GitHub Discussions.
• The Little Things in Games article by Andrej from Ohsat Games for Go! Go! PogoGirl.
• Combat Update: Signatures & Stuns devlog v0.20 by Double Turn Games.
• Spellbreak Reddit AMA with the gamedevs.
• Medieval Fantasy City Generator 0.8.0: new buildings, improved UI by Oleg Dolya. Plus a short interview with Oleg.
• Spellbreak’s latest set of stats, 5 millions players, 4 million hours watched on Twitch, 4 million messages in the Discord server and 25 billion spell damage done!
• The latest Haxe propaganda via Justin Donaldson and Alexander Hohlov.

Videos & Music

• How to add sprite sheet animations in HaxeFlixel video by Richard Oliver Bray.
• What is an Enum and why use them in Haxe? video by Richard Oliver Bray.
• RPG Playground will do a YouTube live Q&A, coming Saturday at 17:00 UTC.
• HxDoom Heaps test by Kaelan Evans.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• 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

• Joshua Granick is looking for paid 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

• Cayetano Gaming are looking for a remote Haxe Developer to join them.
• 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

• IriySoft have released the 3rd instalment from the Moto Maniac series, this time you ride through the forest and a bear is chasing you… 🚴‍♀️🐻 made with OpenFL.
• Poor Thief! is coming to Android in October! Made in Stencyl.
• Little Square Things pre-Anniversaries update by Gregory Reed.
• Darksburg the city sprawling, zombie infested, co-op roguelike is complete and has now left Early Access and entered 1.0 with a ton of new features, improvements and content! Get 50% off via Steam!

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Two Alakajam! games made with Haxe:
  • H.M.S. Relentless Puzzler by Aurel.
  • Sailor Swift by Typix and Titaninette.
• Ian Harrigan has shared a cool UI proof of concept created in HaxeUI.
• led 0.1.7-alpha has been released.
• littleBigInt git - Little pure Haxe cross-platform BigInt implementation.
• haxe-phaser git - A port of phaser from js to haxe for native exports.
• PowerBracelet git - A simplified input library for Kha.
• cc-interactive git - Interactive minimal art with cc-sketch-plus & cc-gamepad.
• lix-switch-version git - Dependency version switch for lix package manager.
• Red.js-haxe git - Temporary repo while Red.js is moved from TypeScript to Haxe.
• hxlog git - Haxe Externs for tslog a beautiful logging experience for Node.js
• Matthijs Kamstra has cleaned-up and added some ❤ to his Gamepad demo.
• Creative Coding with a game controller by Matthijs Kamstra.
• Matthijs Kamstra now has to change this mess into an Haxe presentation and work on the last creative coding goal.
• A short video of the Luna Mouse System plugin working in RPGMaker MV and MZ.
• THWORD an open source word game ported to Haxe 4, via Glasir Games.
• Live material node preview, new blur node and a boatload of bug fixes now in the latest ArmorPaint builds.
• Ian Harrigan is working on an update for KodeGarden:
  • Current and new (incomplete) style.
  • The new logo in the about window.
  • Not completely convinced about the shake, but its easy enough to turn off.
  • Still not totally “face lifted” , but getting close.
  • Starting to feel nice… especially the sync between views.
  • Its the little things.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• NPCs in Renaine now have animated dialogue box backgrounds.
• Vsio shares a preview of the pixel art character thumbnail in KelinKelilin’s title screen, made with HaxeFlixel.
• Filippo Bodei previews his #agbic entry made with HaxeFlixel.
• In Steel Seraph, the third and final bonus weapon stage is almost complete. Made in Stencyl.
• Havana24 is working on their #vimjam entry and just needs to make it procedural. Made in Stencyl.
• Jefvel shows equipping items is important so the soldiers can fight good, in their Heaps powered game.
• Happy Autumn! from Leapin Lads By Cory Martin.
• Here’s a platforming penguin 🐧 by Xoidal. Made with Kha.
• Some new screenshots from WIP puzzle game by mauve:
  • Made a new chapter 2 map, one of the few things left on the list…
  • Tweakable lighting.
  • Some day, the game’s name will be up there…

Some Library Releases

• grig.midi 0.0.5
• colyseus 0.13.2
• led-haxe-api 1.0.10
• extension-lvl 0.0.1
• p2p 0.1.44
• grig.osc 0.0.2
• SvgBitmapFont 0.4.0
• deepnightLibs 1.0.46
• 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

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

• Allow @:noDoc on fields merged.