Haxe Roundup 575

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

• Friday Night Funkin’: The Full Ass Game - Cartoon Rhythm Gaming Excellence Kickstarter has launched, currently at $1,081,247.
• Cameron Taylor interviewed in “Kickstarter launched for Friday Night Funkin’” article.
• 🏰 Medieval Fantasy City Generator 0.8.3: assorted improvements article by Oleg Dolya.
• Kickstarter Devlog Roundup: April 2021 article by Josh Tynjala.
• PogoGirl Devlog #15: The Platform Rundown article by Andrej.
• Kino Rose has published three articles this week:
  • Inlining With The Inline Keyword article.
  • Writing Externs Calling Other Language’s Code article.
  • Where To Try Out Haxe article.
• “Sight” The Horror Game has been announced by ArmoryBlender.
• [patreon] To celebrate the destruction of the first Patreon goal, Andrej has posted the next TWO parts of HaxeFlixel Breakout tutorial in early access.
• [patreon] Install Haxe without docker with binaries from my GitHub repository article.

Videos & Music

• HaxeIn 2021 powered by InnoGames playlist by Alexander Hohlov.
• Introduction to HaxeFlixel Part 7 by Questionable Programming.
• Luyren Stencyl Quick Tips - Image API video by Luyren.
• ArmorPaint. Leather chair. Procedural material + my new nodes. English and French videos by Alexander Kiryanov.
• More mobile friendly website video by RPG Playground.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Job listings

• To reach their goal of helping to save one million lives every year by 2030, Laerdal is looking for a Software Platform Developer to join them in Copenhagen. Remote work is possible, but will require several days a week on site.
• Shiro Games are looking for an Engine/Graphics programmer.
• 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 & Hong Kong.

Bounties

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

Product Releases & Announcements

• Friday Night Funkin - Week 7 is out now! Timed exclusive to Newgrounds!
• Legends of IdleOn is an idle MMO made in Stencyl by one person. Go check it out now on Steam! via Stencyl.
• Ragdolls Can’t Dunk by Fresh Juice Games is getting released on May 5th to the iOS and Android stores, made with Stencyl.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• LDtk 0.9 preview showing off the new cool features being released by Sébastien.
• Ian Harrigan previews the work in progress sidebar component in HaxeUI.
• Patrick’s first attempt using the Raspberry Pi Pico (C SDK) as a gamepad with Rotaryencoder in OpenFL and HaxeFlixel. Continuous mode or clamp mode via switch.
• Senk Ju has made a new website for Snekky programming language which is written in Haxe and inspired by JavaScript’s syntax.
• Thanks to the amazing Aseprite-heaps git lib from Austin East, it’s now super easy to load an Aseprite file directly into Gamebase by Sébastien Bénard. Preview via the Haxe Discord server.
• Getting started with Go2Hx compiling to CPP.

Git Repos

• ldtk 0.9.0 - Biomes and tags, 0.9.1 and 0.9.2 have been released.
• colyseus-haxe 0.14.9 has been released.
• CHAOS framework git - A framework that has it’s own User Interface components. It include Sound Manager and 2D elements.
• GmlCppExtFuncs git - Auto-generates GML <-> CPP interop code.
• rpgmaker-game-template git - A template for working with RPGMakerMV/MZ games in Haxe using the LunaTea framework by Kino Rose.
• datetimelang git - Multiple spoken language helpers for day/month names when using Haxe datetime git library.
• Cs2Hx git - C# to Haxe converter.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Super Cosmic Heist - World 2-6 WIP by Fierce, made with Stencyl.
• JanoGames is finishing off the morale games of “Bad Soccer Manager” Creating more holes to play in the golf game.
• New GIF showing a little bit of progress made for WIP sandbox game by 1speed studio.
• Chris has made a colour picker extension for FeathersUI and OpenFL, previewed on the OpenFL Discord server. With live example available online.
• Kino Rose is working on one of their first games in Flixel since well…Snake and RPGMaker, shared via the Haxe Discord server.
• New screenshot and GIF from WIP game by lampysprites:
  • Slow progress. menus are demotivating.
  • Now you can rebind the keys.
• New GIFs from Jitter Sandbox by Syo:
  • Asteroid shooting.
  • In the shooting range.
  • Mars Helicopter.
• Couple of GIFs from WIP game Renaine by Octosoft:
  • Mondays be like.
  • Classic Chompy is hatching.

Some Library Releases

• ldtk-haxe-api 0.9.2-rc.2
• Console.hx 0.2.15
• markdown-openfl-textfield 1.0.2
• colyseus 0.14.9
• react-portal 1.2.0
• flixel-tools 1.5.1
• captain 0.1.0
• flixel-demos 2.7.4
• flixel-templates 2.6.6
• haxe-c-bridge 0.5.3
• Check out the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

People & Projects to support

• Funkin’ Crew is making Friday Night Funkin’, a cartoon rhythm gaming excellence
• Patrick is creating Raspberry Pi 4 support for Haxe/Lime/OpenFL/HaxeFlixel.
• Josh Tynjala is working on Feathers UI — open source, cross-platform UI components built with OpenFL.
• 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 Destructor proposal.
• Add enum abstract over enum proposal.
• 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

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

• Nothing of interest this week.