Haxe Roundup 581

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 #19: Demo Time! article by Andrej.
• How to emulate @:native metadata for typedefs? question.
• Nullable/Non-Nullable function return type depending on nullability of input question.
• General Progress Update devlog for Patches Of Adventure by RobClemmonsJr.

Videos & Music

• Introduction to HaxeFlixel Part 13 by Questionable Programming.
• The importance of a game design document - 2D Stealth indie game devlog #1 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

• Peter Achberger is available for freelance work.
• Andreas Drewke is looking for a freelancer job or part time job.

Job listings

• HaxeFlixel RPG project.
• Allan Dowdeswell is looking for Haxe developers for outsourcing relationship.
• Nexters (Moscow, Russia) are looking for a Haxe developer to work on their HTML5 game.
• 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

• Restaurant Streets: feed friends in your own restaurant. Made with OpenFL.
• Tommy Søreide Kjær has released PSYCHOFUNK available on iOS and Android. Made with Stencyl.
• Robert Alvarez has released Jumphase, their newest puzzle platformer available on itch.io and Newgrounds. Made with Stencyl.
• Gauthier made a little recruitment game for Fire Falcom game studio.
• Armory SDK 2021.6 was released, now with support for Blender 2.93 LTS versions. Other changes include the new Nishita sky model, lightmapping improvements and a redesigned add-on UI (changelog).
• The last two Friday updates about Mine Blocks introduced enchanting and brewing into the port! Also, there are now slimes, magma cubes, and alerts when you get achievements.
• Premium version of RPG Playground new will be announced next week.
• Duke has released Road to Eternity, available on itch.io, from the Armory Discord server.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Zwodah has released an early prototype of Explore the Abyss, available on itch.io and who is looking for feedback!
• Type and team have released Type-a-Latte, a café themed game for a university class project, using OpenFL, available on itch.io.
• A new version of Mammoth Herder had been released on Newgrounds by wayward.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Disktree has updated the Haxe type definitions for Three.js .

From the Haxe Discord server

• Kino Rose previews their macro generated Aseprite script commands in a type safe language which is available on GitHub. Still need to add the commands to the API but 90% there.
• Tyler has shared their Snapper gist which “implements coyote time, jump buffering and squash-and-stretch in HaxeFlixel”. Check out the preview.
• More awesome water FX by Sébastien Bénard for Nuclear Blaze. Recently Sébastien discovered the crazy rich SCP Foundation universe and decided to connect the story of Nuclear Blaze to it.
• Harpwood has released FlxRes git, their initial version of an easy multi resolution handling lib for HaxeFlixel, also available on itch.io.
• Seifer Tim has created a merge request which adds support for Unicode Combining Diacritical Marks in FlxBitmapText. THERE we GO!.
• FlappyGame by edu0112, with the source code available on GitHub.

Git Repos

• hx-ios-uikit git - An extern for Haxe to write native IOS applications.
• monaxe git - Monaxe - ReactiveX Library For Haxe Inspired By Monix.
• why-bluez git - BlueZ (Bluetooth on Linux).
• why-dbus git - Macro-powered DBus Abstraction.
• why-tuple git.
• walker git - Immutable asynchronous state charts.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Twitter thread about Scraps of Light RPG.
• Defender’s Quest 2 progress: leeches! by Lars Doucet.
• Change the speed of the game with triggers assigned to different shapes in Syo’s Jitter Sandbox. Or become a space hammer!
• Matthijs Kamstra progress with his WIP paper toy builder app menus and pattern.
• Super Cosmic Heist - World 3-3 WIP by Fierce.
• Watch out for motion sensors, they will set off a trap! in Fierce’s Super Cosmic Heist.
• Mauve had been doing some notes on how to fix up / finalize new tileset for Addlemoth.
• Alex Lanzetta has made a text field which is working in WebGL/OpenGL rendering mode in Lime.
• New GIFs from WIP game by SavanDev:
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  • Why are you not moving?
  • Welcome to ColorLess!

From the OpenFL Discord server

• Chris previews their WIP small GUI tool built with OpenFL & FeathersUI to help manage dependencies, project configuration alongside any IDE. And it will be open sourced in the future!

From the Haxe Discord server

• Skyfire has added bullet time and a new enemy type that launches homing missiles at you.
• Slow but steady progress by bloodninja.
• Jefvel is working a bit on a postjam version of their LDjam game.

Some Library Releases

• tink_macro 0.24.0
• hx-ios-uikit 0.0.1
• pony 1.4.7
• hxweixin-mini 0.1.1
• openfl-glsl 0.0.9
• 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 Safe navigation operator proposal.
• 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

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

• JSON parsing slow and memory intense on eval - due to Reflect.setField issue.
• [js] Added -D js-global to customizes the global object name pull request.
• Allow passing null values to Std.string() when null-safety is enabled pull request.
• [python/php] Null Safety false positive issue.
• [python] Null Safety false positive issue.
• Breaking change macro CString backslashes issue.