Haxe Roundup 601

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 has started!!! This year’s theme is Overlords. 57 people have joined! ️
• Need ideas for good uses of HaxeFlixel Patreon funds article.
• Closed Hands Review by The Sixth Axis via Dan Hett.
• Porting Haxe to a new OS?

Events

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

Videos & Music

• Introduction to HaxeFlixel Part 33 - Adding HUD and Level 2 by Questionable Programming.
• How to hide sprites behind other sprites in HaxeFlixel | 2D Stealth indie game devlog #5 by Richard Oliver Bray.
• Extra logic nodes for Armory 3D video by Willbot Studio.
• Changing materials In Armory 3D + Game example 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

• Pilie Pals by Kirill Poletaev has been released on Steam!
• Nuclear Blaze by Sébastien Bénard is now available on Steam!. And Sébastien is already teasing something for the game.

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

• Justin has added more arrow endings to cornerContour. You can see the test source for trying line endings at GitHub, where you can also find demo links.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, Kaelan Evans has made a rudimentary Mandelbrot shader in Haxe. Here is the shader code itself.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, Jeremy Fa is experimenting with a new API for Ceramic: take screenshots of the window.

Git Repos

• Snekky bytecode has been reworked.
• ren git - Roguelike Engine written in Haxe/Heaps. Requires their other library zf git.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Talking animations in Renaine.
• Swinging obstacle for Go! Go! PogoGirl. And the game has Steam achievement support.
• Robert Alvarez is working on a new web game with color-based collisions.
• JanoGames is adding in pregame quandries in Bad Soccer Manager.
• Halloween in Northgard?
• Motion Alarm Test WIP by Fierce, made in Stencyl.
• Fraymakers October update all about Octodad’s unique physique!
• Clean shots of the Sleek Boss Fight in Suoer Cosmic Heist by Fierce.
• New screenshots and quick videos from Addlemoth by mauve:
  • Added a splash effect! sploosh!
  • Last stage in chapter 3 content is complete. Just have to finish the story content and it’s probably go time.
  • New rock golem sprite is looking much better than the old one.
  • Working on a perfectly normal cutscene,
  • We have LORE.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Bloodninja is editing level with pen input on a tablet.
• ZwodahS shows new fog of war implementation for Explore The Abyss which is in Early Alpha state.
• Pavel Alexandrov shows work on game editor:
  • Some tooling for object selection.
  • Added general “CanvasArea”.
  • Slowly getting along with node editor.

Some Library Releases

• hxnodejs-aws-sdk 2.989.1
• bootstrap_bundle 1.1.1
• Spork 0.9.0
• bind 0.4.13
• nme-toolkit 6.3.3
• uuid 2.4.0
• mc2it_theme 1.3.0
• 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

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

• [python] Tracing some native values may throw fixed.
• [ci] Enabled sys tests for node target merged.
• Don’t die when resolving overloads fixed.