Haxe Roundup 556

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

• McLeodGaming just launched a Kickstarter campaign for their upcoming customizable 2D platform fighter named Fraymakers, powered by Heaps!
• Feathers UI beta.1 for Haxe and OpenFL is now available! The latest of multiple preview builds that are planned before the first stable release in 2021!
• Open source Haxe track on Exercism is looking for assistance getting everything up to date.
• Sébastien Bénard has added support for “linear” worlds to LDtk in next update (in “linear world” levels are organized one after the other). Re-organizing your levels using drag’n’drop is such a pleasure!
• Stencyl 4.0.4 is available for download! Check out the list of changes over on the community forum.
• Vadim Dyachenko made a web-based icon converter, read the introductory post about it. Also Vadim has written about giving Neko VM executables a custom icon.

Videos & Music

• Rogue of Vallas Devlog #5: Cinematic-Style Animations video by Merrak.
• Adding a goal to our level in HaxeFlixel video by Richard Oliver Bray.
• 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

• Shiro Games are still looking for a Senior Gameplay Programmer to join their team of passionate developers in Bordeaux.
• 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 be releasing the Clan of the Dragon on consoles for Northgard on 25th November, due to some late certification issues.
• Luyren has released their AI and Combat packs! Add combat, special skills and enemy AI to your Stencyl games!
• Mine Blocks “The Hardcore Update” 1.30.0 is out, the final Flash version of Mine Blocks.
• Mine Blocks 1.30.2 is out which fixes super broken chests, but more importantly adds zombies with afros.
• Steel Seraph is 66% off on Gamejolt and Itch.io until November 25th.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Disktree has published all the Armory3D examples online to browse.
• Feathers UI v1.0.0-beta.1 for Haxe and OpenFL has been released.
• Ian Harrigan has made HaxeUI dialogs draggable by default.
• George Harpwood has created a Memory match game and a Minesweeper game powered by HaxeFlixel, the first two prototypes out of 10 planned games. The source code for both of the games is available on GitHub: Haxeflixel-Memory-Cards-Game git and Haxeflixel—Minesweeper git.
• Gauthier B has updated their fork of Ash git, which no longer has class name collision in Nodes.
• XANOZOID has created a repository EchoHaxePunk git - which is one way of Echo can be used in HaxePunk. Check out the GIF showing its work.
• minks-got-covid git - The Minks got COVID-19 game.
• haxe-skija git - Helper library for using JetBrains’ Skija with the Haxe JVM target.
• gstatem3 git - The state machine for Haxe.
• huxly git - Haxe parser combinators.
• flixel-animation-editor git - A animation editor for HaxeFlixel.
• KhaPenguinPlatformer git by XANOZOID.
• Haxe Shader Demo git by George Corney.
• Jérémy Fa is working on “Unity backend” for Ceramic engine:
  • Now clipping/masking works.
  • Also managed to make render textures work (here same Haxe code running through Unity and through WebGL/JS export to check that it does the same thing).
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Double Kick Heroes now has more than 120k players!
• Double Turn introduces The Brawler and The High Flyer!
• Hayden Kowalchuk had to write a web game for uni this week, so why not show it off by using a PlayStation 5!
• Check out the Steel Seraph live playtest supercut which is almost 3 hours long. A game made in Stencyl.
• Juriën Meerlo has created a small game for the weekly game jam 174, with the theme being “tennis”, available on itch.io and made with Kha.
• Ty is making a game where you can go into thoughts, made with HaxeFlixel.
• Using ice can freeze enemies so they can slide across in new WIP game by Robert Alvarez.
• Arrow gimmick demo GIF by Vsio NeithR.
• Here’s a new screen from Caverns of Ksantarus game by President of Space.
• JanoGames has released a demo of Stage Dive available on itch.io.
• Location test by Luke Rosuto. Made with Heaps. more info about the game coming soon.
• Marching Squares by BlackGoku36. Made with Kha.
• A couple of quick videos from Renaine:
  • Fun Fact: since it closes its eyes to shoot, this silly birb shoots at where you were at the start of the animation, not where you’re at.
  • This birb works as a bowling ball.
• New screenshots from #GitHubGameOff jam game by Snappy Sloth:
  • Day 10. We have an internal prototype!
  • Day 11 & 12. Will you see what is placeholders and what is not (but still WIP)?

Some Library Releases

• StoryblokClient 0.5.0
• buddy 2.12.3
• electron 11.0.1
• starling-text-display 0.8.0
• ldtk-haxe-api 0.5.1-rc.2
• zsparticle 1.0.0
• deepnightLibs 1.0.54
• fuse 0.1.1
• feathersui 1.0.0-beta.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

• 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

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

• Thread Pool support has been merged.
• Int64.modInt and Int64.intMod issue.