Haxe Roundup 582

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

• Jérémy Fa has written “Discover ceramic, a cross-platform and open-source 2D framework”.
• Elements and Leeches: DQ2 progress report for May 2021 by Lars Doucet. Lars has also shared his impressions of getting back into modern HaxeFlixel development.
• Kino Rose has written about “Haxe Build Macro Basics”.
• “Loading LDtk maps in HaxeFlixel” article written by bloodninja from the Haxe Discord server.
• The HaxeFlixel forum switched to to using GitHub Discussions.
• Make sure you don’t miss the PC Gaming Show this Sunday, where Shiro Games’ newest title may very well be making an appearance.
• RPG Playground related news:
  • Stats on RPG Playground.
  • Premium version of RPG Playground news are incoming.

Videos & Music

• Haxe and OpenFL Tutorial: Part 2 “Exploring Haxe and OpenFL” video by Chris Speciale.
• Rogue of Vallas Devlog #18: VGA Colors Conundrum by Merrak.
• Introduction to HaxeFlixel Part 14 by Questionable Programming.
• Haxe + Node a perfect combination | 2D Stealth indie game devlog #2 by Richard Oliver Bray.
• ArmorPaint. News. June 4, 2021 video by Alexander Kiryanov.
• Super Cosmic Heist - Fierce’s Theme composed by Pat.
• Morgan Lewis is streaming their work on Project Fire.
• Cameron teaches coding streams:
  • Episode 1.
  • Episode 2.
  • And the source code from streams is available on GitHub.
• 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

• Saharan’s brand new site is made with Haxe which you can tell so by viewing its main.js.
• Unlimited masks per layer and mask blending now in the latest ArmorPaint builds.
• Lampysprites’ Volk-san: Egg&Catch game is out and available on itch.io and gumroad.
• New Build of “Patches Of Adventure” is Ready by RobClemmonsJr.
• A demo of Energy Island Corp. by Spirkop Games will be available during the Steam Next Fest, it will start the 16th June!

From the Haxe Discord server

• Team Commander has been published to Newgrounds by Anshnagda, built using HaxeFlixel.

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

• OpenLR Pass 23 update by Kaelan Evans.

Git Repos

• ceramic 0.7.7 has been released.
• hx-layout-lib git - A library to handle UI layout independently from rendering pipeline or library.
• fount git - Extensions & additions to the Haxe standard library.
• HaxeUI-Example git project by Matthew Rawcliffe.
• New 2021.6 releases by Lubos Lenco:
  • zui
  • iron
  • Armory2D
  • Armory SDK
  • Armory3D
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Fried Flyla doesn’t sound very appetizing in Super Cosmic Heist by Fierce. And more level design in progress.
• Matthijs Kamstra has updated his 3D shapes in his desktop app Paper-Toy-Builder and worked on Truncated Cone.
• Screenshots from the revised “High Security Compound” level in Rogue of Vallas by Merrak.
• Ape of rage by Mig Moog using HaxeFlixel.
• RPG Playground is working on the game project tree.
• SavanDev has opened page for Colorless on itch.io. The game itself will be available soon.
• This week’s Mine Blocks update gives you item search, anvils, and name tagging!
• JanoGames is building game transitions for the “Scare the birds off the park” mini game.
• Cameron is also fixin RAM issues in Friday Night Funkin.
• Matching key blocks to unlock doors from new WIP game by Robert Alvarez.
• New GIF from Jitter Sandbox by Syo:
  • Working with text.
  • Animated planets in the background are generated with Pixel Planet Generator.
• New GIFs from Renaine:
  • Door transitions are the future!
  • The default HaxeFlixel logos in their natural habitat…
  • Art team requested more bees Honeybee in the hive Honey pot and I’m not one to disappoint.

From the OpenFL Discord server

• Chris is just wrapping up some last minute things.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Clyde is working on a game using Heaps which is “inspired by Diablo and Path of Exile. All about stacking up crazy items with interactive effects to get through harder and harder levels of a dungeon”.
• You can now stomp at any time in Go! Go! PogoGirl! The switches have been changed so that now you need to activate them via stomps.
• Skyfire2008 has added a screen shake to their game.
• Markl has shared video of prototype which is being made with HaxeFlixel.
• Daniel has added coloured marbles to WIP marble sim.

Some Library Releases

• hx-ios-uikit 0.0.3
• css-types 0.9.3
• react-types 0.12.1
• ecso 1.0.0-alpha.4
• travix 0.15.0
• haxe-autodiff 0.0.1
• LunaTea 1.1.1
• Aseprite-Api 0.9.1
• electron 13.1.0
• 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

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

• Nothing of interest this week.