Haxe Roundup 549

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

• LEd is an open-source 2D level editor for the indie dev community LEd 0.3.
• Check out the LEd video by GameFromScratch and the thread on Hacker News.
• PogoGirl devlog #6 Springtime is Here! by Andrej.
• WIP: Trees in Village Generator 🌳 by Oleg Dolya.
• API documentation for h2d is now finished, status update and wish-list box devlog by Pavel Alexandrov.
• A little devlog Twitter thread by Mauve and visual novel/adv game level++ quick video.

Videos & Music

• The first devlog video by Dave Doublee about WIP turn-based RPG game being made with Stencyl.
• Making RPG’s with RPG Playground: Q&A by RPG Playground.
• Luyren Stencyl Devlog #3 - AI Showcase by Luyren.
• How to add gravity to a sprite and collisions in Haxeflixel - Part 1 video by Richard Oliver Bray.
• How to add gravity to a sprite and collisions in Haxeflixel - Part 2 video by Richard Oliver Bray.
• How getters and setters work in Haxe - Part 1 - Access identifiers video by Richard Oliver Bray.
• 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

• Havana24 has released Hop Hop Miner, their entry for the #vimjam, which is also their first game with procedural levels. Made in Stencyl.
• The ANNIVERSARIES update for Little Square Things by Gregory Seed is live on Steam.
• 𝙵𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚙𝚙𝚘 𝙱𝚘𝚍𝚎𝚒 has released GoGoSpace!.
• Vinnie’s Tomb: Chapter One is a faithful HTML5 recreation of Vinnie’s Tomb, a free game created by Reldni Productions and released in 1997 for Windows 95.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• hx-gcode git - A lightweight G-code generation framework in Haxe.
• openfl-jsrunner git - Use JS codes & libraries in your native OpenFL Android apps by Sinh Nguyen.
• three.hx git - Haxe→Three.js type definitions by disktree.
• How to display Haxe errors in the Defold console GitHub readme by Sinh Nguyen.
• Matthijs Kamstra’s presentation for the HaxeIn 2020 is going good!
• Use nodes to control layer masks in ArmorPaint.
• And painting translucency in the upcoming ArmorPaint ray-tracing update.
• Everyone’s making an ECS, so here’s another one by Aidan Lee.
• LEd in Flixel code sample.
• Austin East has added slopes and custom shapes to echo’s tilemap generator.
• FlxEcho.hx: Quick Flixel <-> Echo integration.
• Looks like Hugh Sanderson is working on Metal backend for NME.
• Antriel created a repository phaser3-hx git.
• Pavel Alexandrov is implementing text appearance effects for RichText from Heeps (which is Pavel’s advanced Heaps extension library).
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• The Renaine team is proud to announce Bees! 🐝
• Shiro Games has made it possible for you to upload your own custom translations for Northgard to the Steam Workshop!
• Take a listen to “Cave Theme” from Poor Thief, made with Stencyl and available for Pre-order for iOS.
• Sinh Nguyen previews their Defold and Haxe powered game with their newly commissioned art.
• 1speed has released a demo of their adventure game about ghosts and… some other stuff… onto itch.io called Croaking Hill, made with Kha. 👻
• Vsio implements UI for mouse input in stage selection for KelinKelilin, made with HaxeFlixel.
• The senseless death of the Death Star by Syo made with Heaps, with a plan to publish a build onto itch.io. The project will allow for customization, partly as it is being made using Tiled.
• Bad candy in Leapin Lads by Cory Martin.
• Destroying the laser barriers in puzzle Stencyl game by Robert Alvarez.
• Who wants some Haxe cookies?
• Doors 🚪 transition by ty.
• Jamming with a PS4 controller turned into a music instrument by Jérémy Fa. Would anybody be interested in a downloadable app to do this with your own PS4 controller?
• Who brings a sheep to a gig? by JanoGames.
• Some progress again on In-Game UI… by tizilogic.
• Screenshots and quick videos from The Grand Grimoire Chronicles by Jeffrey Driver:
  • Something different with in-game menu.
  • Map now is fully functional.
  • New map system is finally finished.

Some Library Releases

• uuid 2.3.0
• yloader 0.0.1
• led-haxe-api 1.0.12
• deepnightLibs 1.0.49
• nwjs 1.0.0
• DomWires 1.0.0-alpha.14
• extype 3.0.3
• littleBigInt 0.1.0
• wrenparse 0.0.3
• grig.osc 0.0.3
• munit 2.3.5
• robotlegs 2.0.6
• echo 2.2.0
• grig.midi 0.0.5
• 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

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

• [jvm] Strange behaviour with a conditional fixed.