Haxe Roundup 558

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

• Dicey Dungeons from Terry Cavanagh and Darksburg from Shiro Games, are part of this year’s Jingle Jam Charity Bundle with 100% of the proceeds going to charity!
• Fraymakers Content Spotlight #7: Rockman and Lea Kickstarter article from McLeodGaming.
• Mark Knol from MediaMonks has released Cable Detective, a point and click adventure game, to celebrate this years AWS re:Invent virtual conference!
• PogoGirl Devlog #9: Making Enemies article by Andrej from Ohsat Games.
• Kino Rose has published Haxe Builds files & Compilation, a quick look at an example Haxe Build file that they use for their plugins and games.
• Alexander has published Новости из вселенной Haxe, a transcript of Aleksandr Kuzmenko’s talk given at HaxeIn 2020. via Haxe.ru.
• An article about level creation in Armory3D.
• Perilous Shores 1.1.0: legend, visual & UI improvements by Oleg Dolya.
• Armory Digest - December 2020 issue is now available!
• LDtk by Sébastien Bénard now has an official shiny website!

Videos & Music

• Linking states/levels together in HaxeFlixel - Part 1 and Part 2 by Richard Oliver Bray.
• ArmorPaint. Concept. New Mask system interface video by Alexandr Kiryanov.
• 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

• The Clan of the Dragon, plus the latest console updates for Northgard by Shiro Games, are now officially available on the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and PS4!
• Robert Alvarez has released his newest puzzle game, Elemental Tiles, available on itch.io and Newgrounds. Made with Stencyl.
• Motion Twin has announced the new DLC for Dead Cells called “Fatal Falls”. You should wish list it on Steam.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Fire Falcom have released their entry for the #GitHubGameOff jam, called MoonLander.
• Ty has released their entry for the #GitHubGameOff jam, created with HaxeFlixel, called Nite.
• Havana24 has released Relic Splatter for the #WebMonetization jam. Made with Stencyl.
• LeHaine has finished their first game jam with #GitHubGameOff by releasing Moon Liberator.
• Snappy Sloth have released their entry for the #GitHubGameOff jam, called “Are you there?”
• Orbeetles is another #GitHubGameOff jam entry, made with OpenFL.
• WIP texture test by Nanjizal.
• Jérémy Fa shows off exporting a LD46 game created with Ceramic, exported for and running inside Unity!
• Jeremy Meltingtallow is spending their quarantine holiday on a renoise tool for the Akai Fire, focusing on sequencing and made with Haxe.
• Demo Armory3D learning website by ArmoryBlender. Please share your suggestions for possible improvements.
• ldtk 0.6.0 “Take over the world!” edition, has been released.
• haxebullet 2020.12 has been released.
• iron 2020.12 has been released.
• zui 2020.12 has been released.
• armory 2020.12 has been released.
• hxnodejs-stream-json git - Haxe/hxnodejs externs for the stream-json npm library.
• hxnodejs-stream-chain git - Haxe/hxnodejs externs for the stream-chain npm library.
• haxe-injection git - Straight-to-the-point dependency injector for Haxe.
• promisehx git - Simple promises implementation for Haxe ported from promise.ts.
• Luna-social-system git - An RPGMakerMV/MZ plugin that creates a social system within your game.
• tixy-haxe git - A t.i.x.y Haxe clone.
• Luna-rogue-engine git - An RPGMakerMV/MZ plugin that adds Rogue-Like elements to your game.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Use the stun bombs from the Surprise Roll emblem to flash your enemies in Renaine!
• In level 5 of Stage Dive by Jano Games, you got to hit fans with the t-shirt cannon! Made with Stencyl.
• Vsio shows off another level with arrow gimmicks in Loop Heart, made with HaxeFlixel.
• Samir Sabri has published Normalized Waveforms over on DCACLab.
• Test/dev stream of puzzle game by mauve. Thanks to this stream he has fixed a dozen bugs, a couple of which were actually critical.
• Steel Seraph is in the middle of the final update.
• New game by ustance incoming. #YesWeKha.

Some Library Releases

• pony 1.3.3
• vector-math 1.5.0
• ldtk-haxe-api 06.0-rc.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 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

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

• In array comprehensions, empty objects match any structure fixed.
• [haxeparser] Add StringLiteralKind values to string consts merged.
• [eval] Max input for Std.random fixed.
• Float64Array actually use 64bit floats merged.
• isInt64 is true for Int value on cpp issue.