Haxe Roundup 591

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

• Go2hx, the GoLang to Haxe compiler - Work in Progress : 8 Month Update by PXShadow.
• Ian Harrigan has released Dependency Analyzer “that will display the dependency tree of a project” and of course its made with HaxeUI.
• Fun fact: OpenFL in Steam. Engine detection is made with participation of Lars Doucet.
• WIP, Perilous Shores and other updates article by Oleg Dolya.
• New Attacks, New Effects, New Costumes! - July 2021 Fraymakers Roundup via Fraymakers Game.
• Syo is inviting everyone who wants to take part in the early pre-alpha tests of Jitter Sandbox. You can join game’s Discord server where you can find game launcher and discuss it.
• Kirill Poletaev has shared screenshots of the fifth and final world of Pilie Pals game.
• “Wartales promises an immersive, medieval turn-based strategy romp” PCGames article. You can also sign up to take part in the upcoming playtests!

Videos & Music

• Introduction to HaxeFlixel Part 23 by Questionable Programming.
• HaxeFlixel vs other game engines video by Richard Oliver Bray.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Looking for work

• Rudy Geslin is looking for full-time remote work.
• Peter Achberger is available for freelance work.
• Andreas Drewke is looking for a freelancer job or part time job.

Job listings

• Sébastien Bénard is looking for a Japanese translator for the upcoming game Nuclear Blaze SCP.
• Small startup Moddy is looking for the Haxe developer to work on game engine and game editor (they are using Heaps) for their upcoming game console.
• 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

• Spellbreak - Chapter 3: The Wardens has been released.
• Super Cosmic Land - 1 Year Anniversary update is out now! “Help a greedy bandit retrieve treasure that he rightfully stole from a mysterious mass of evil!” Created by Fierce, available from itch.io.
• Version 0.3.2 of Fiscal Jesters is live! This build fixes some kapsule bugs and completely redoes the coin patterns.
• Chessformer by Robert Alvarez now has a Steam demo.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• “Simple Go Library Bundles” idea for go2hx git.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, Nanjizal has shared cornerContourGluonTest, which is a test for cornerContour working with Gluon git library by George Corney.

Git Repos

• ceramic 0.8.0 has been released.
• haxe-strings 7.0.1 and 7.0.2 have been released.
• haxe-joomla-module git - Example Joomla Module made with the Haxe programming language.
• haxe-feathersui-webaudio git - Haxe WebAudio experiments using the FeathersUI/OpenFL UI toolkit.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• What horrible weather to repel an invasion in! from Super Cosmic Heist by Fierce, made in Stencyl.
• Syo is cooking popcorn, with sound in Jitter Sandbox!
• Andrej is polishing the cutscenes of Go! Go! PogoGirl for the upcoming Sonic Amateur Games Expo demo.
• Alex Johansson is building the functionality for a shop in 100% POOL for table skins!
• Rogue of Vallas outdoor areas have gotten a facelift! Merrak is going to brush up some character artwork.
• Super Cosmic Heist - World 4-4 WIP by Fierce.
• Some new quick videos from Bad soccer Manager by JanoGames:
  • Adding a new minigame. Too many ref bribes will mean you have to outrun the law!
  • Built in the ability to resign. Best to jump before you are pushed!
  • Bit more work on “4th and Long”.

From the Haxe Discord server

• 01010111 robot battle sim game is coming together! Plus it now has gameplay UI and the ability to hack enemy bots. Also available on Twitter.
• Robert Clemmons has shared couple of screenshots from Patches Of Adventure: Potions for everyone and An exciting inventory in progress screen.
• luRaichu has shared screenshots of title screen of WIP Ikachan game.
• Aidan Lee is updating Flurry engine to use vector-math git library by George Corney to take advantage of the new 4.2 overload functions.
• SeiferTim would love to get some feedback on the Eggsolotl game. Especially: the Tutorial!
• Zeptos has shared some GIFs from the WIP fighting game:
  • Live communication between two players via websockets.
  • Added synchronized attacks + animations.

From the FeathersUI Discord server

• Chris’ game, Stellar Dominion launches August 28th! Originally created in Starling/AS3 and moved to OpenFL & Feathers UI.

Some Library Releases

• xa3.format 0.2.2
• openfl-spine 1.8.1
• pony 1.4.9
• haxe-files 3.0.0
• coconut.feathersui 1.0.9
• watch 0.0.2
• haxe-strings 7.0.2
• 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

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

• Macro @:from and array unification issue.
• [hashlink] I64 implementation pull request.
• [hl] I64 implementation API pull request.