Haxe Roundup 583

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 “Getting started with ceramic”, guiding you step by step creating your first project with ceramic.
• Defenders Quest 2 progress - tar! by Lars Doucet.
• PogoGirl Devlog #20: After Demo: Air Charges and Super Stomps article by Andrej.
• Feathers UI Devlog #33: NumericStepper, app scaling, item renderer accessories, TextInput errorString.
• “Haxe Aseprite Scripting” article by Kino Rose.
• Ceramic engine now has its own channel on Haxe Discord server.
• Lars Doucet’s thoughts on “Instant Games”, Friday Night Funkin, Flash games & monetization.

Videos & Music

• Introduction to HaxeFlixel Part 15 by Questionable Programming.
• Sprite packing & player movement in HaxeFlixel | 2D Stealth indie game devlog #3 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

• Saga Education are looking to hire a full-time software engineer focusing on web & edtech. US only.

  • Saga Education, is hiring a senior-level software engineer. We use a lot of tech, both frontend and backend, but a lot of our frontend code is in Haxe. We build cool, meaningful EDTech products like this digital whiteboard: Woot Math Scratchpad.

• Allan Dowdeswell is looking for Haxe developers for outsourcing relationship.
• HaxeFlixel RPG project.
• 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

• PogoGirl Devlog #21: Demo Updated! by Andrej.
• Double Turn Update v1.1.2 is out. Full patch notes are available.
• Kino Rose has released Sprocket onto itch.io, made with HaxeFlixel for #gmtk2021.
• A Renaine demo will be available today or tomorrow on Steam Next Fest. Stay tuned to the game’s Steam page!
• Nicolas Cannasse has announced WarTales, a gritty mercenary game from ShiroGames. Get the free demo available now as part of the Steam Next Fest.
• Energy Island Corp. demo is now available as part of the Steam Next Fest. via SpirkopGames.
• Nuclear Blaze SCP now has a Steam page too, so you can wishlist it! It’s not 100% public right now, so all your feedback would be super useful to Sébastien.

From the Armory Discord server

• Phour has released Bleep Bloop Power Bot made with Armory3D onto itch.io, made for #gmtk2021.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Sodap has released Tres Mangueras available on itch.io made for #gmtk2021 using HaxeFlixel.
• Pirhana has released Pangaea available on itch.io made #gmtk2021.

From the Haxe Discord server

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

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Ian Harrigan shows further progress of the HaxeUI-pdcurses backend over on the Haxe Discord server.
• Michael Miriti has made the Ase library able to create, write and modify aseprite files.
• Disktree has released Noise Gen, a white, pink and brown noise generator, with the source available on GitHub.
• Edu has shared source code of their version of FlappyBird game developed with Haxe and HaxeFlixel.
• Elton Silva has made a new feature for Ogmo Editor: show all levels together.
• ColorLess v1.0.1 is here by SavanDev. And the game’s source code is available as well.

Git Repos

• ceramic 0.7.9 and 0.7.8 have been released.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• After 26 attempts, Jano Games finally lands him in the bath, more bath celebration levels to follow in Bad Soccer Manager. ⚽🛁👀 Made with Stencyl.
• Gepatto has gotten Friday Night Funkin running on the RaspberryPi as a proof of concept.
• Hello from Syo’s Jitter Sandbox, made with Heaps.
• Matthijs Kamstra continues to improve Paper-Toy-Builder WIP ✂ by working on trapezoid and the splash screen.
• Nuclear Blaze SCP by Sébastien Bénard gets a title screen, Options menu & is coming out soon!
• The latest Mine Blocks Beta update is out, with fishing 🎣, clouds & lightning ⚡, mobs and more.
• Matching arrow blocks to move obstacles in WIP puzzle game by Robert Alvarez.
• Mauve has spent some time and added The Good Kind of Button Config for WIP Addlemoth game.
• Fried Bandit on the other hand… from Super Cosmic Heist by Fierce.
• Fantomon is coding a fake command line console with Haxe and HaxeFlixel.
• RPG Playground has shared plans on project tree improvements.
• New GIFs and video from Renaine:
  • The mouse society’s got a new mayor.
  • Hmm let’s see how the first area I haven’t touched since the big backend rework is looking 2 days before the major demo.
  • What bee sound do you guys like the most?

From the Haxe Discord server

• 01010111 shares a video of a game they are making for work inspired by Super Crate Box, made with PixiJS, OGMO and Echo.
• Skyfire2008 has added a preloader to avoider.

Some Library Releases

• coconut.vdom 0.9.1
• openfl-spine 1.6.7
• bootstrap_bundle 0.2.2
• udprotean 0.3.3
• poke-api 0.7.1
• openfl-aseprite 1.3.2
• ase 2.0.0
• externs 0.5.6
• lc-hotp 1.0.1
• aseprite-api 0.9.5
• 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

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

• Add methods to get Map and EReg sizes pull request.