Haxe Roundup 557

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 discusses their OpenFL-powered homebrew editor FrayTools for their upcoming Heaps-based game, Fraymakers.
• Fraymakers are doing great with their Kickstarter campaign! The next stretch goal is a full metal alternate soundtrack. 🎶
• HaxeFlixel Tutorials! announcement by Andrej from Ohsat Games.
• Kino Rose has published “Why I Use Haxe As My Language of Choice”.
• Village Generator 1.2.3 by Oleg Dolya is available, featuring new trees, SVG export and more.
• How to interchange data including structures between engine and scripting language community question.
• Getting started with Cocos Creator and Pony guide by AxG.

Videos & Music

• Rogue of Vallas Devlog #6: State Governance video by Merrak.
• How to use FlxSubState to create a level complete screen 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 people to join their team of passionate developers in Bordeaux to work on a new unannounced project.
• 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

• CrossCode is in early access on Amazon Luna!
• The Clan of the Dragon from Northgard is now available on Nintendo Switch and Xbox One and will be released on PlayStation 4 a bit later.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Ian Harrigan has made some small nice additions to HaxeUI’s tables to make working with dynamic data and variable item renderers more pleasant.
• A small cheat-sheet on HXSL shaders by Pavel Alexandrov.
• Floor and ceiling triangulation are almost done for Kealan Evens’ Doom engine.
• HxDoom 0.0.7-Alpha has been released.
• Jérémy Fa is almost feature complete regarding handling graphics for his Ceramic engine using Unity as a backend. In this GIF you can see Bunnymark test running within the editor.
• Ludovic Bas has ported the Flash Starling particle editor to HTML5 with OpenFL, with the source available on GitHub.
• Ninja_muffin99 been busy these past few weeks, and released Friday Night Funkin 0.2.2 update.
• DDOM git - Agnostic data access. DDOM uses selectors to access data in an agnostic way. It is similar to DOM/CSS/JQuery selectors, but has some unique aspects due to how data can be managed and the potentially circular nature of data references.
• DDOM-DB git - DDOM database access helpers.
• DrakoSpace git - A rouge-like game.
• peote-layout git - Nested layout containers in Haxe based on Jasper library.
• HaxeDOM git - A tiny Haxe framework for working with the DOM API.
• haxe-lwjgl git - Helper library for using LWJGL with the Haxe JVM target.
• ola git - Synchronized video viewing with chat and other features. Lightweight modern implementation and very easy way to run locally.
• bson git - Pure Haxe implementation of the BSON spec.
• WikiAdventure git - A multiplayer browser game with Wikipedia API. Challenge your friend and be the first to go from one page to another. Made with Haxe and HxNodeJS.
• setup-dart git - Set up your GitHub Actions workflow with a specific version of the Dart SDK.
• Simple platformer prototype git by Andrej Kesely made using Haxe and Heaps.io.
• whiplash git - HTML5 game framework combining Haxe, Phaser, Babylon.js and Ash.
• cavegen git - A Cave Generator based on Cellular Automata​.
• hsluv git - Human-friendly HSL, reference implementation.
• haxeflixel-snake prototype made by Harpwood. The the source code is available on GitHub.
• Daniel Blaker is working on little Minecraft-like thing built with voxel git which uses Kha and Haxe:
  • The first (incorrectly lit) dirt house was made.
  • Work on ambient occlusion.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Oh yeah, it’s all coming together 🔪🐦 via Renaine.
• The President of Space has added a new font, tests bubbles and tutorial messages in Caverns of Ksantarus, a metroidvania game made with HaxeFlixel.
• A very nice lady from WIP game by mauve.
• These doors open only when a certain number of enemies are killed in the WIP puzzle game by Robert Alvarez.
• Tom Brinton is working on some new levels for Poor Thief! (made with Stencyl).
• A platformer, a hard to reach collectible and a HUD that keeps track of them. You know how this goes, right? from Go! Go! PogoGirl by Andrej.
• Arachnowopunk (made with OpenFL) by Benny Heller is now free on Android. There’s also a new update, here are couple of new GIFs from the game:
  • Block-pushing puzzle meets infinite-runner.
  • Hat shop!
• New screenshots from WIP GitHubGameOff entry by Snappy Sloth:
  • A first look at the module screen.
  • More modules have been drawn.

Some Library Releases

• dropecho.langgen 0.6.1
• dropecho.storygen 0.8.3
• HxDoom 0.0.7-alpha
• fast-xml-parser 3.0.0
• fuse 0.1.5
• pony 1.3.2
• hcc 2.0.3
• 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 Enum abstract instances proposal.
• Add Null coalescing operator proposal.
• Add local static proposal.
• Allow enums to opt-out of publishing their constructors in the implicit global scope proposal.
• Add destructive assignments 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

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

• Abstract type cannot modify itself with --no-inline issue.
• Variable / Rest arguments pull request. This implements rest arguments as an abstract over targets native corresponding features.