Haxe Roundup 589

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

• Shiro games will be hosting an AMA over on Twitch on 29/07, answering your questions about all of their existing and upcoming projects!
• Implement One-Way Collisions in HaxeFlixel article written by Andrej.
• Aidan Lee has written the “Building an Extensible Asset Pipeline with Haxe and Cppia Scripts” article which goes into how they re-worked their engine asset pipeline.
• Pilie Pals - World 3 Screenshots quick devlog by Kirill Poletaev.

Videos & Music

• Introduction to HaxeFlixel Part 21 by Questionable Programming.
• Pilie Pals - Puzzles with bombs - Devlog #5 by Kirill Poletaev.
• Add a video related to 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

• Nexters (Moscow, Russia) are looking for a Haxe developer to work on the web-version of their project Throne Rush.
• 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.
• 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

• Joaquin Bello has released Yolky for the Newgrounds July Game Jam, built with Kha.
• Michael Miriti has released Pipes Minigame onto itch.io, made in a few hours for #PixelDailes.
• Pixel Turkey has released Egg Match a match-3 game for Newgrounds July Game Jam, made with HaxeFlixel.
• Alex Johansson has made 100% POOL available for playtesting on iOS. If you’re interested in testing, drop them a line! Made in Stencyl.
• Ty has released Sling 2, a "retro platformer~battler" onto itch.io for the #Lospec Game Jam, made with HaxeFlixel.
• Axol Studio have releases a short simple game for Newgrounds July Game Jam, made in a week and with HaxeFlixel, called Eggsolotl!
• Kyatt has released Fiscal Jesters! “It’s a 1-4 player competitive puzzle game inspired by 90s upside-down puzzlers like Magical Drop and Money Idol Exchanger.” Check out the alpha build available on itch.io.
• Northgard has made its way to the Epic Games Store!
• Chessformer by Robert Alvarez now has a Steam store page.
• Stargazers game had been made for the Touch The Stars Game Jam. Update coming soon, so consider it a teaser.
• A New Home (DLC for CrossCode) will launch on PS4, Xbox and Switch on August 5th.
• Luyren has updated the Cutscene Resource pack.
• KadeDev has released Magic Babies onto Newgrounds for the July Game Jam, made with HaxeFlixel, with the source available on GitHub.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Justin has a rough version of cornerContour git work in ceramic git. Check out the demo which shows parsing SVG paths and drawing to canvas rather than GL.
• Josh Tynjala has compiled Feathers UI components-explorer sample on a Raspberry Pi 4 (over SSH from macOS). Here is the photo of it running on Raspberry Pi 4.
• Rainy plans “to support direct rendering of 3D on OpenFL’s WebGL target” in the announcement post OpenFL3D Render, with source code available on GitHub.

Git Repos

• MotivationalQuotesDemo git - A basic app that showcases a motivational quote app in Haxe and React Native.
• ExpressionScript git - A language heavily derived from Expression2.
• HaxeFantasyInterpreter git - A small code interpreter made in Haxe.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• “Who cares about collision detection when you have pathfinding” in the indie HaxeFlixel game by Questionable Programming.
• 100% native HaxeUI app using coconut.haxeui git & the haxeui.hxwidgets git backend via Ian Harrigan. “A glorified but flexible todo app with recurring tasks, being used for an MMO” built by klabz.
• Questionable Programming previews Dread of the Undead , built with HaxeFlixel.
• Super Cosmic Heist 2022 - Four worlds to explore before infiltrating the Prison Planet by Fierce. Made in Stencyl.
• Syo previews Jitter Sandboxes latest preview “In search of a spectacular explosion”. Made with Heaps.
• Mauve has been doing a bunch of stage/backend work on Addlemoth puzzle game.
• Brown cows in WIP game Frontier Story by jmw327.
• SavanDev is ready to update ColorLess using HaxeFlixel.
• Couple of quick videos from WIP Go! Go! PogoGirl game by Andrej:
  • Stomping helps you to get height, hit switches and land on platforms…
  • These platforms drop down after the third hit, so you’d better make every bounce count!
  • To activate a switch you’ll need to perform a pogo stomp

From the Haxe Discord server

• ZwodahS has redrawn most of the assets for Explore the Abyss game prototype.
• Some GUI from Spidyy’s game prototype, which is being made with Heaps.

Some Library Releases

• watch 0.0.1
• mc2it_theme 0.3.1
• 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

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

• [hl] --dce full and a call before super produce JIT ERROR issue.