Haxe Roundup 551

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

• The Proletariat CEO discusses the development of Spellbreak and what they’ve learned designing for players first.
• Better Binding in HaxeUI by Ian Harrigan.
• Village Generator 1.2.2: trees, islands, customizable palettes by Oleg Dolya.
• Vadim Dyachenko has made GameMaker extension which lets you dynamically load animated GIFs as sprites. It is based on Haxe format library. 👏
• Vadim Dyachenko has also released YYDebugView git, which is a small tool for viewing code inside .yydebug files generated by GameMaker when running from IDE. It is intended for code recovery. Check out the blog post for further details.
• Congratulations to Mark Knol on winning 14th place in overall and 9th place in mobile categories in js13kGames this year! 🏆
• Heaps.io vs OpenFL for portable 2D games?.
• What will be documented next? by Pavel Alexandrov

Videos & Music

• The HaxeIn 2020 playlist is already available!
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• 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

• The team behind Forge of Empires at InnoGames is looking for a Haxe developer, feel free to contact Dan Korostelev in case of any questions! More info can be found at the company’s website.
• 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

• Shiro Games are releasing a limited edition vinyl version of the Northgard soundtrack in the next few weeks. 🎶
• Lucas Pope has updated “Papers Please” for 64-bit systems & added Chinese localization. It should be up on Steam/GOG/etc now or very soon. The last update was in 2014, one hundred million years ago.
• Tank doodles are now exportable as PNG by Oleg Dolya.
• Genie Quest: Aladdin Matching Game has been just released in Early Access. Made with Haxe, OpenFL & Starling.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Kaelan Evans is looking for some help with HxDoom git. He’d like someone well versed in Heaps or Kha that can help make a rendering pipeline for a Doom engine.
• LEd, now with selections & copy! by Sébastien Bénard.
• Creative coding calendar by Matthijs Kamstra.
• Dan Korostelev has shared a small nicety he made recently: image previews for typed assets in Haxe and VS Code. Check out the demo repository.
• djA git - This is a helper library for HAXE, it contains some target Agnostic/general purpose tools.
• Ian Harrigan continues his work on a custom Haxe IDE, which will have online & offline versions:
  • Every target and dark mode.
  • Haxe Studio compiling and running inside Haxe Studio.
• Some “behind the HaxeIn 2020 scene” photos by Josefiene Pertosa:
  • Working on the HaxeIn setup…
  • The mess on the other side…
  • Simon and I are looking forward to Wednesday!
  • Abk together!
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Alex Lanzetta’s release of “A Festival in Sand” includes a fully programmed music video, written in Haxe and Lime.
• The Spaceport Alpha common area in Steel Seraph, where Seraphine meets allies who see her off to the orbital elevator for the final battle. Made in Stencyl.
• Luyren’s latest updates on their AI and Combat pack over on the Stencyl forums.
• Jefvel is mixing 3D models with 2D pixel art and reworking character rendering from plain stacked 2 sprites to sort of 3D. so it is possible to attach items dynamically and animate and rig them in 3D.
• Syo previews jitter sandbox moving based on two joints, made with Heaps & Nape. He is also working on a system of triggers.
• Who brings a tennis ball to a gig? A preview of JanoGames Stage Dive game, made with Stencyl.
• Fab is still messing about with Heaps.
• Lighting is fun in Croaking Hill, as always.
• Collecting keys and unlocking doors in WIP puzzle platformer by Robert Alvarez.
• The Current state of the WIP browser 3D racing game by Ed Ryzhov, which he is planning to convert to hyper-casual game.
• The President of Space is working on some title screen and menu system for Caverns of Ksantarus.
• Andrej has been toying around with tiles that dampen your bounce force.
• tfw you need to make sure players figure out where to go by mauve. ❓
• New quick videos from Renaine:
  • Testing out a hitStop effect.
  • The unstoppable, unbeatable, king of the ring himself, Kraken! 🐙
  • The glitch with the wrong animation.
  • How it started /// how it’s going.

LD47 “Stuck in a loop”

In case you missed it.

• two tapes by Aurel and Eido Volta.
• Loop Invader by Alejandro Ramallo made with HaxeFlixel.
• Closed Circuit by Criobite with timelapse.
• Despairship by Bowl of Soup made with Heaps.
• Superposition by disktree and Michael Gerstl made with Armory3D.
• Friday Night Funkin’ by Ninja Muffin made with HaxeFlixel.
• Loop Heart by Vsio made with HaxeFlixel.
• Curly’s Chase by Dan Lin made with HaxeFlixel.
• ringtale by torcado made with Stencyl with timelapse.
• Car game by Daniel B made with Kha.
• Hands on Work by jefvel made with Heaps.
• Fort Loop by Sébastien Bénard made with Heaps.
• Chamber by Pedro Medeiros made with Heaps.
• Heaven Slash by Spitko and friends made with Heaps.
• Duplicafé by Veggie Donut made with Stencyl.
• “Donut Island” by Oded Rosenblatt. Check out the postjam version of the game with some major improvements.
• Pulsewave by BitDecayGames, made with HaxeFlixel.

Some Library Releases

• test-adapter 1.2.10
• fonthx 0.0.2
• hxmemcache 1.2.1
• which 1.0.2
• gitea 0.2.1
• Check out the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

People & Projects to support

• Pavel Alexandrov is primarily contributing to the Heaps engine and is the creator of format-tiled library.
• 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

• Allow enums to opt-out of publishing their constructors in the implicit global scope proposal.
• 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

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

• [format] Amf3 UTF8 fixes merged.
• [eval] Adopt libuv draft pull request.
• [cpp] Allow multiple include metadata entries pull request.

You can get started using the latest features by downloading a nightly build of Haxe and see the impact the latest changes have on each target by browsing the benchmarks site.

Take it easy everyone, stay safe and have a good week!