Haxe Roundup 592

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

• HaxeUI v1.3 has been released!
• Cédric Belin comments that “out of the sixty legacy applications (based on spaghetti PHP code) that we maintain, eight have been completely rewritten in Haxe (based on Coconut/Tinkerbell) in just over a year. Proud of the result 🥳”.
• Plans for Steel Seraph 2.0.0 devlog.
• Pilie Pals is on Steam! by Kirill Poletaev.

Videos & Music

• Introduction to HaxeFlixel Part 24 by Questionable Programming.
• Pilie Pals - The Trailer has been released by Kirill Poletaev.
• 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

• Fiscal Jesters version 0.3.5 has been released.
• Michael Miriti has managed to complete #lowrezjam entry within a single day. Made with Haxe and not yet publicly available framework for pixel games.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Bandit and Dungeon by Alexander Gordeyko is a simple platform game example made with Haxe + Heaps + Pony + LDTK.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, Jeremy Fa previews a “sample project for ceramic, showcasing how to load and play a spine animation.”
• Via the Haxe Discord server, Daniel is learning Haxe & Heaps and has made “a super basic game of life implementation”. The source is available on GitHub.

Git Repos

• [lix] Install 64-bit Haxe when available on Windows has been merged.
• Urjasvi has made a maze generator in Kha, available on GitHub.
• ptrparser git - Convert C types into a tree structure and optionally to a Haxe complex type using HXCPP types.
• krita-haxe-externs git - Krita Python scripting Haxe externs.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Merrak needed to add some whimsy in their updated sprite artwork for Rogue of Vallas, take a look at the easter egg for Marika’s idle animation. Plus outdoor areas have received a facelift.
• Flyla The Crescent Owl takes to the skies & Super Cosmic Heist World 4-4 and World 4-5 WIP by Fierce, made in Stencyl.
• Questionable Programming finally has a testing state for their ranged units, 1 day and 249 lines later! Made in HaxeFlixel.
• Syo previews rocket defence and laser defence in Jitter Sandbox.
• Wojtek Rak used this years #lowrezjam to learn Haxe & Heaps.
• MortMort “favorite part about game dev has always been to design levels, and push mechanics to create interesting challenges for the player.” Check out Little Love a game made in Stencyl.
• Updates for Bad Soccer Manager by JanoGames: Play head tennis with a tennis ball and more.
• The life system and the enemies are working well in WIP game by SavanDev.
• The latest Fraymakers preview “highlights new functionality and a brand new move for Welltaro”.
• Couple of quick videos from WIP Chessformer game by Robert Alvarez:
  • Some levels at 3x speed.
  • Knight in a maze.
• Andrej is improving the tutorial section of Go! Go! PogoGirl for the upcoming Sonic Amateur Games Expo demo:
  • Added new signs, small birbs and a big birb with a hat that tells you the controls.
  • New idle animation.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Half Wheat has finished ‘#lowrezjam’ with their brother. Trappy Snail is available to play on itch.io.
• James has “made a little physics engine for their Heaps game”.
• Little floating pickups, small but nice. By GoKritz.

Some Library Releases

• electron 13.2.1
• pony 1.5.0
• dox 1.6.0
• markdown 1.1.2
• haxeui-pdcurses 1.3.0
• haxeui-heaps 1.3.0
• hxWidgets 1.8.0
• haxeui-winforms 1.3.0
• haxeui-pixijs 1.3.0
• haxeui-openfl 1.3.0
• haxeui-nme 1.3.0
• haxeui-kha 1.3.0
• haxeui-flixel 1.3.0
• haxeui-hxwidgets 1.3.0
• haxeui-html5 1.3.0
• haxeui-core 1.3.0
• heaps-aseprite 0.1.2
• vscode 1.59.0
• mc2it_theme 0.6.0
• unreal_python_api 0.0.1
• bootstrap_bundle 0.4.0
• 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

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

• Nothing of interest this week.