Haxe Roundup 553

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

• Ian Harrigan’s latest HaxeUI feature and post is about the ability to interpolate string values inside HaxeUI CSS animations.
• Oleg Dolya has written about the 1.2.0 release of One Page Dungeon Generator.

Videos & Music

• Merrak has released their second video devlog for Rogue of Vallas - AI and debugging in Stencyl.
• Armorpaint - Angel Statue Tutorial video by ArmoryBlender.
• Adding collectables with Tiled Map editor to a HaxeFlixel game - Part 1 video by Richard Oliver Bray.
• Adding collectables with Tiled Map editor to a HaxeFlixel game - Part 2 video by Richard Oliver Bray.
• The latest RPG Playground devlog videos:
  • New feature - set walking speed.
  • Improving my Tilemap Editor.
  • A smart rectangle tool for tilemap editing.
• 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

• Javid Jafari is looking for a job.
• 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

• Bloognoo is looking for a Haxe developer to help them save live venues.
• 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.

Bounties

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

Product Releases & Announcements

• Shiro Games will release their next update, the Clan of the Dragon for PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch on November 17th.
• Oded Rosenblatt has submitted their Ludum Dare entry, Donut Island, the final version, to Newgrounds. Made with HaxeFlixel.
• The next update to Dicey Dungeons will feature a Catalan translation.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Haxe implementation of “The Ray Tracer Challenge” community showcase.
• With recent updates to the HaxeFlixel HaxeUI backend, Ian Harrigan has HaxeUI playing much better with cameras.
• Ian Harrigan has a GIF showing the Project panel in Haxe Studio and a preview showing the structure & outline view of Haxe Studio.
• Nanjizal awhile ago ported 3D WebGL texture to Haxe to better understand 2D textures, available on GitHub.
• voxel git is a voxel engine by Daniel B made with Kha and Haxe.
• colyseus-hx 0.14.7 has been released.
• led 0.4.0-beta and led 0.4.1-beta has been released.
• Luna-multisplash git - An RPGMakerMV/MZ plugin that lets you show multiple splash screens back to back.
• Luna-menu-disable git - A RPGMakerMV/MZ plugin that disables use of the standard menu.
• snekky 0.6.0 has been released.
• snekkyd git - Disassembler for Snekky binary files.
• NativeLibrary git is a sample project showing how to call native C code on Kha.
• An example of a vector shader for HaxeFlixel which contains a matrix transform.
• Discwheel by Will Blanton made for disc room game jam 2020. Source code is available on GitHub.
• [hxmath] Add Kha structures pull request.
• [haxe-inspired] Depot 1.3.0 has been released, a CastleDB inspired structured data editor built inside VSCode.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Shadowlife is a school project by Daniel B.
• Discer3 by Snsvrno made with Haxe and Heaps for disc room game jam 2020.
• JanoGames is working on level 3 for Stage Dive. Get your mic back! 🎤
• Jeffrey Driver has mostly finished the title graphic for The Grand Grimoire Chronicles allowing him to continue writing the story. Made with Stencyl.
• MortMort created a game over two days inspired by Jump King meets typical mobile game. Made with Stencyl.
• Alex Lanzetta has ported Str1ngle game. Made with Lime.
• The new title screen from Caverns of Ksantarus by matzieq.
• Mauve has fixed the roller logic so they move at a constant rate and update cleaner.
• A little preview of Dungeon Pest Control by 𝙵𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚙𝚙𝚘 𝙱𝚘𝚍𝚎𝚒.
• Gamepopper has released Gigi Console.
• Ever write code and it works? by ty.
• Gepatto has HaxeFlixel working on a Rapsberry Pi 4 on x11.
• Episode 9 of Sheepolution’s 2-minute gamedev podcast with torcado.
• Andrej is working on making the pools of water in Go! Go! PogoGirl look a bit nicer. And an animation glitch.
• A couple of new GIFs from WIP puzzle game by Robert Alvarez:
  • A couple of bouncy blocks.
  • These portals are different sizes and can’t transport characters bigger than them.

Some Library Releases

• hxWebSockets 1.4.0
• haxeui-heaps 1.3.1
• hxWidgets 1.6.1
• haxeui-winforms 1.1.3
• haxeui-pixijs 1.1.3
• haxeui-openfl 1.1.3
• haxeui-nme 1.1.3
• haxeui-kha 1.1.3
• haxeui-hxwidgets 1.1.3
• haxeui-html5 1.1.3
• haxeui-core 1.1.3
• hiss 0.0.2
• helder.std 0.0.2
• genes 0.0.3
• helder.set 0.3.0
• deepnightLibs 1.0.52
• buddy 2.12.2
• uuid 2.3.1
• colyseus 0.14.7
• holi_ecs 1.0.0
• holi_macros 1.0.0
• rehaxe 0.0.2
• electron 10.1.5
• led-haxe-api 1.0.13
• haxe-poco 1.0.0
• 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

• Add local static proposal.
• 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

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

• [cpp] Use cpp.Int64 for haxe.Int64 instead of a class pull request.