Haxe Roundup 600

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

• Powering through - DQ2 Progress Report for September 2021 by Lars Doucet.
• MondayHopscotch wrote a little post-mortem of Aerostat game.

Events

• Armory3D Community Game Jam 2.0 page and video announcement, has started, hosted by Willbot Studios.
• The HaxeJam 2021 has been announced, starting October 16th, hosted by logo4poop. ️

Videos & Music

• Introduction to HaxeFlixel Part 32 - Setting Up Win and Lose Screens by Questionable Programming.
• AI enemy in Armory 3D tutorial by Willbot Studio.
• 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 Hero Wars.
• Nevosoft (Saint Petersburg, Russia) are looking for a Haxe developer to work on their mobile game Charm Farm.
• 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

• Via the Haxe Discord server, George Harpwood has finished 8th out of 10 prototype: HxFour. Game’s AI might or might not be improved in the future.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, Squidly has made a little game PAD24 Day 12 - Casino. You can read a bit more about it on discord.
• Zzox (tyler) has made a new rhythm game “panic”, which is available on Newgrounds and Itch.

Previews & Demos

LD49 “Unstable”

• Clable by Andrei Rudenko using Kha.
• Doctor Concoctor: Bullet-helly roguelite twinstick shooter by Aurel.
• GUNSTABLE by torcado. Made with OpenFL.
• Jérémy Fa’s entry - It will Fall. Made with Ceramic engine.
• Jefvel’s entry - Horse with a Human Mask On a Tightrope.
• 鬼心伝 - A Story of Heartful Oni is another one Ludum Dare 49 entry made with Haxe by group of Christopher Ortiz, Chris, Frroyo, Merenge and Juneji.
• ZwodahS’s entry - Unstable OS.
• Aeveis’s entry - Okay & Alright. Made with HaxeFlixel.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, Viole(n)t Cooking made with Heaps. via Yanrishatum.
• Structure Rescue by GlacierEclipse made with HaxePunk.
• Pocobot’s Obligation made with OpenFL.
• A Crumbly Planet by Kumber using HaxeFlixel.
• The Pearl Thief by Furfel using HaxeFlixel.
• Submit your LD49 entry built with Haxe.

Open Source

Community Previews

• Ian Harrigan showed fully native HaxeUI Android backend working nicely. ️
• John Doughty has shared EchoDodger - an example of a dirt simple game running on echoes ECS and rending in Kha.
• John Doughty has also released:
  • A fork of the Echo ECS framework with a separate draw function.
  • EchoSystem git - Game template built off the Echo library.
• Couple of new screenshots from Oleg Dolya:
  • Improved fields.
  • Something brighter.

Git Repos

• hl-chipmunk2d git - Haxe / Hashlink wrapper for chimpmunk2d.
• hxwasp git - Haxe port of wasp-os.
• zero-static git - A Clear and Simple Static Site Builder.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• The very first song reveal from Fraymakers.
• Andrej will tackle a swinging obstacle next for Go! Go! PogoGirl.
• Nikolay Kana has shared some progress on Kanyon Karver.
• Difficulty settings from Sébastien Bénard’s Nuclear Blaze game.
• Mauve has added a feature to highlight players and goal objects at the first turn of a stage in Addlemoth.
• JanoGames has revised menu structure in Bad Soccer Manager. Btw you can DM Jano if you are interested in taking part in TestFlight.
• Spirkop has added the possibility for two rivers to join and also working on sandbox maps for Energy Island Corp.
• Techy Wrinkles has turned spiders into beetles with a simple function.
• Super Cosmic Heist - Sleek The Android Boss WIP by Fierce.
• “Rogue of Vallas takes place in the distance future of what was (today) Eastern North Carolina” by Merrak.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Bloodninja’s next step of the editor… mobile/touch support.

Some Library Releases

• presskit 1.1.2
• openfl-spine 1.8.2
• which 3.0.0
• bootstrap_bundle 1.0.2
• akismet 1.0.1
• hxRaylib 0.9.2
• uuid 2.3.3
• gitea 0.3.0
• 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 haxe.Int64 Numeric Literal Suffix proposal. ️
• Add Static Extension Meta Functions proposal.
• Add Number Separator proposal.
• Add Safe navigation operator proposal.
• Add Destructor proposal.
• Add enum abstract over enum proposal, plus clarification…
• 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

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

• [js] Added a simple way to bypass the haxe $bind by using (inst.func: Dynamic) pull request.
• alescing operator pull request.
• Disable fusion for impure externs pull request.