Haxe Roundup 585

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

• Happy 10 year anniversary of Mine Blocks!
• Using Finite State Machines in HaxeFlixel article by Andrej.
• Perilous Shores 1.1.2: lakes, editable names by Oleg Dolya.
• SlavaRa has added PreviousEdit Plugin for FlashDevelop/HaxeDevelop which allows you to quickly navigate between previosly edited pieces of code.
• PogoGirl Devlog #22: Graphics Overhaul by Andrej.
• Keyreal has republished his Haxe tutorials to https://keyreal-code.github.io/haxecoder-tutorials/ that originally existed on Haxecoder, via the Haxe Discord server.

Videos & Music

• Introduction to HaxeFlixel Part 17 by Questionable Programming.
• 8 Tips to improve your game’s performance in HaxeFlixel 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

• A short term & remote code review job for a HaxeFlixel Browser Game is available.
• 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.

• HaxeFlixel RPG project.
• Nexters (Moscow, Russia) are looking for a Haxe developer to work on their HTML5 game.
• 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.

Bounties

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

Product Releases & Announcements

• CrossCode is out now on the PS5, powered by #kha!
• Announcement from torcado: Heck Deck now has a store page on Steam!

From the Haxe Discord server

• Keyreal has announced his newest game - Pilie Pals, made using his custom game engine YUME written in Haxe. Check out the Demo Trailer and grab the demo available from itch.io.

From the Haxe Discord server

• BobbyBurt’s first HaxeFlixel game has been released to Newgrounds called “Highschool Bathroom Simulator” 🚽.

From the Armory Discord server

• GrMaster has released “Offroad Mania” available on Steam. Check out the trailer on YouTube.

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 previews the new HaxeUI Raylib backend with full text support and combining HaxeUI + Raylib demos into one.
• Ian Harrigan has ironed out a few kinks in the HaxeUI Heaps backend and is finalizing bits for the HaxeUI PDCurses backend!
• Daniel has open sourced marblesim git using Kha, Nape and hxWebSockets, via the Haxe Discord server.
• Oleg Dolya is thinking of adding more colours to Perilous Shores, also inland sea’s and roads.
• PolyProxy has made a 3D demo in Haxe using hxRaylib.

Git Repos

• Ceramic 0.7.12 has been released.
• why-log git
• why-concurrency git
• haxeui-raylib git - RayLib backend for HaxeUI.
• hxtizen git - Haxe externs for Tizen SDK APIs.
• hxlua git - Haxe bindings for luaJIT.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Super Cosmic Heist - World 3 Boss, World 4-1 and a secret room WIP by Fierce, made in Stencyl.
• Techy Wrinkles previews their RType/Fantasy Zone shmup mashup game dodging enemy shots, made with Heaps.
• Avizura has been working on the song editor for their rhythm game #breakbeatbattlemachines made with HaxeFlixel.
• Now each particle is a separate pixel in Jitter Sandbox by Syo, made in Heaps.
• Ode an die Freude in Jitter Sandbox by Syo .
• Syo adding action templates in Jitter Sandbox.
• SavanDev shows their maximum Aseprite skills for creating game dialoges.
• Kino Rose is working on something super small.
• Matching bombs test scene in WIP puzzle game by Robert Alvarez.
• Still WIP but already very useful! The extrusion shape in ✂️ Paper-Toy-Builder by Matthijs Kamstra.
• A couple of quick videos from Bad Soccer Manager by JanoGames:
  • No chance.
  • Created a stoopid name generator.
• Some new screenshots from WIP game Addlemoth by mauve:
  • Finished the tileset upgrades, and also cleaned up a dusk variant of the base tileset!
  • Experiment with CRT shader.
  • Recording validation tests for all the stages so I can ensure they’re clearable.
  • Let’s talk about how good looking my dusk variant tileset is. mm. so leafy.
  • And the changelog for the past few days.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Idenner is trying out some new worldgen for minicology, with an alpha planned within the next month or two.
• ForeignSasquatch has added texture rendering to hxRaylib and has added Mac support to hxRaylib.
• Dean has decided to publish recent rewrite of an old game to itch.io. It’s not 100% finished, but 100% playable - Stupid Aliens!.

Some Library Releases

• coconut.feathersui 1.0.4
• coconut.diffing 0.5.0
• hscript_template 1.1.1
• pixiflash 0.1.1
• openfl-spine 1.7.0
• hxtizen 1.0.0
• hxwebos 1.0.2
• DomWires 1.0.0-alpha.15
• Pancake 1.0.18
• redistHelper 0.4.11
• gmodhaxe 0.2.2
• 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

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

• Nothing this week.