Haxe Roundup 597

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

• The HaxeJam 2021 has been announced, starting October 16th, hosted by logo4poop.
• Armory 3D Community Game Jam 2.0 page and video announcement, starting October 1st, hosted by Willbot Studios.
• “Hey, Its The First Full Game In Beginning Game Programming!” article by E. Zachary Knight. You can play a browser based version and get the source code for the game.
• PogoGirl devlog #25 Rotating Platforms by Andrej.
• Recent Developments of Patches Of Adventure by Rob Clemmons Jr.
• Version 2.0 of the CHAOS Framework announcement on the OpenFL forums.

Videos & Music

• Introduction to HaxeFlixel Part 29 - Finishing up Boss Testing State by Questionable Programming.
• Understanding the factory pattern | Factory pattern in game development video by Richard Oliver Bray.
• Nuclear Blaze - Behind the scene by Sébastien Bénard.
• 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

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

• Basic Platformer Pathfinding AI for HaxeFlixel $150 bounty.
• FlxG.collide with simple object “mass” for HaxeFlixel $100 bounty.
• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.

Product Releases & Announcements

• Aurel has released Korobo: Save the trees, made in 48 hours for the 13th Alakajam.
• Advent has released Heart Star available on Poki. Swap between the worlds and solve puzzles with the power or teamwork! Made in Stencyl.
• Kanyon Karver by Nikolay Kana is in open testing on the Google Play store.
• Northgard multiplayer for mobile phones will come out on September 29th.
• Fatal Falls and the Custom Mode for Dead Cells are now out on iOS and Android (with the 2.4 version of the game)! New enemies, weapons, biomes: hours of fun await you!
• From the Haxe Discord server, halfbuzz has updated tracker interface. Check project ReadMe for more info.
• From the Haxe Discord server, Poker Quest is in Early Access on Steam now. via Fragsworth.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• How to upgrade all tink_* libraries to latest git version by Andy Li or just write a lix script.
• E. Zachary Knight has “finished coding Memory in HaxeFlixel. This is the 5th project and 1st complete game in the book Beginning Game Programming”.
• Justin previews gradient thickness improvements in cornerContour git.
• Matthijs Kamstra has added documentation about json support for Lua target.

Git Repos

• chaos_framework 2.0 has been released.
• ceramic-demo git - Demo project used in the Discover Ceramic article.
• php-index.hx git - A PHP directory index generator, implemented in Haxe.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Super Cosmic Heist - World 1-1 WIP by Fierce.
• Jérémy Fa previews some very early generative creative coding art.
• Mauve is proceeding work on chapter 3 of Addlemoth.
• New screenshot of Energy Island Corp by SpirkopGames.
• Deltarune from Fraymakers.

Some Library Releases

• hxnodejs-aws-sdk 2.989.0
• electron 15.0.0
• DomWires 1.0.0-alpha.17
• redistHelper 0.5.1
• xa3.format 0.2.3
• chaos-framework 2.0.0
• presskit 1.1.0
• deepnightLibs 1.0.62
• fen 2.0.0
• mc2it_theme 1.1.0
• cxxgraph 0.1.6
• 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.

• No consistent way to unset environment variable issue.