Haxe Roundup 561

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

• PogoGirl Devlog #10: Gems and Goals by Andrej from Ohsat Games.
• The markdown-based dialogue system devlog by Syo.
• How To Change Output Names In Haxe article by Kino Rose.
• Where was I? by GhostID.

Videos & Music

• Rogue of Vallas Devlog 10: RPG Balance and Design video by Merrak.
• Adding a finite state machine (FSM) to a HaxeFlixel sprite - Part 2 - Using switch case and enums video by Richard Oliver Bray.
• ArmorPaint. New functions of the program. January 8 2021 video by Alexander Kiryanov.
• Mundusnine has streamed the process of making a platformer example project for Foundry2d engine git.
• Michael Bickel has finished the first draft of a simple vertex-based physics engine. The demo is running on top of Snow.
• 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.
• 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.
• BeeInventor Limited are hiring for a Haxe fullstack developer to join them in Taipei.

Bounties

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

Product Releases & Announcements

• Terry Cavanagh announced that the next update to Dicey Dungeons will have an Arabic translation. A public beta is live on the Steam branch “arabic” right now! This means that OpenFL will possibly have support for RTL and ligatures text rendering (at least for native platforms).
• Maze Genius available on itch.io made with HaxeFlixel by newlibarian via Haxe Discord server.

Code Examples

• How to get Map size via native methods across the various Haxe targets.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Poga has written a Chip-8 simulator that can be run in the browser and locally with HashLink, check out the vis-chip-8 git GitHub repo.
• Nanijzal shows how to use inlines, typedefs and abstracts in his NextTo try.haxe.org demo and over on gist.
• Kaelan Evans previews multiplayer Line Rider made in Haxe and Heaps using WebRTC and PeerHX. Source code for OpenLR git is available on GitHub.
• Nanjizal previews experimental class and typedef iterator abstract code and the generated JavaScript source.
• Sébastien Bénard is working on LDtk levels loading & rendering in HaxeFlixel.

Project Progress

• [openfl] Implement UDP via DatagramSocket pull request.

Git Repos

• hxrx git - Haxe 4.2 reactive extensions.
• externs.hx git - Partial Haxe externs for common JavaScript and PHP libraries.
• fure git - Functional Reactive Framework.
• HExt git - HTML templating with code-completion.
• Haxe-C-Bridge git - [WIP] Easily embed a multi-threaded Haxe program within a native application via an automatically generated C header.
• LucidText git - LucidText is a HaxeFlixel library designed to give easy access to juicy text in the style of games like Paper Mario, Animal Crossing, and Celeste.
• postgres-ext git by Benjamin Dasnois provides sys.db.Connection for PostgreSQL.
• HaxeTools git - Набор часто используемых инструментов для Haxe / A set of frequently used tools for Haxe.
• Kat git - Music Player for music listeners and streamers.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Techy Wrinkles is using OpenFL for their turn based roguelike game.
• Syo shows off full ship docking in Jitter Sandbox, his indie Heaps powered game.
• Sergey Lerg previews his current progress with Haxe and Defold with scene transitioning, with a screenshot showing the code. His framework is called Spiral Kit.
• Cory has made some long overdue improvements to the puddle VFX in Leapin Lads.
• The President of Space is working on new obstacle types for the Caverns of Ksantarus.
• Character creation using HaxeFlixel + HaxeUI screenshot by guifes from Haxe Discord server.
• R.c from Haxe Discord server is working on fully procedural island generator for the next game, made with Heaps.
• Many optimizations and fixes on the chunk system for Fault by GhostID.
• A couple of new GIFs from WIP curvy platformer by Austin East:
  • Making a game about my favourite monke, sonic the hedgehog.
  • Rolling added.
• The latest new GIFs and screenshots from PogoGirl:
  • menu selection intensifies
  • Improved the HUD a little. Replaced the text with icons.
  • In the process of mocking up a better level end screen.

Some Library Releases

• atom 1.54.0
• deepnightLibs 1.0.58
• externs 0.3.0
• nwjs 1.1.1
• pony 1.3.9
• 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

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

• [cpp] Fix typing of cpp.Native.star merged.
• Macro reification of abstract/final class/interface issue.
• Problem with overloading of compound assignment operators issue.