Haxe Roundup 604

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

• Moonshine IDE’s code editor powered by Feathers UI!
• iOS & Android Native Extension discussion.
• Taking Hostages – DQ2 Progress Report for October 2021 by Lars Doucet.
• PogoGirl Devlog #26: Shwing! by Andrej Preradovic.
• Personal website made entirely with Armory3D by Rogério Perdiz.
• Happy anniversary to Double Turn!

Videos & Music

• How get sprite to follow path HaxeFlixel tutorial by Richard Oliver Bray.
• Make your first game with Armory3D beginner tutorial by Willbot Studio.
• Make your first game in Armory3D part 2 beginner 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

• Little team is looking for a Haxe developer to work on HTML5 games.
• 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

• Nuclear Blaze by Sébastien Bénard released on Itch.io.
• IriySoft has ported Battalion Commander to Android, the iOS version is coming soon!
• Memory Match Game Prototype for OpenFL by George Harpwood.
• Surprise! This Thursday the 11th, Dicey Dungeons is coming to Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S!
• Heck Deck by torcado will be released on PC and mobile on January 11th, 2022!
• Via the Haxe Discord server, Jefvel has released an endless mode for Grandpa’s Minigun.

Previews & Demos

HaxeJam 2021 “Overlords”

• Harold Swore An Oath by Nathm8, source available on GitHub.
• Distactia by Kino Rose, source code available on GitHub.
• Dice Kingdom by ZwodahS, source available on GitLab.
• Put a Flag on It! by Drewby and Sparkhur, source available on GitHub.
• Git Gold by John Doughty, source available on GitHub.
• Dash OVERLORD by Bogdan2D, source available on GitHub.
• Battle of the Overlords by Serius Games, source available on GitHub.
• OverloadS by GoKritz, source available on GitHub.
• Haxe Jam by CerealBuffer, source available on GitHub.

Open Source

Community Previews

• Sidebars and splitters working in haxeui-pdcurses (text mode user interface)… because… … why not!
• HaxeUI now has a very simple, but very useful “card” component!
• Kaelan Evans has added an arbitrary angle snap to LineRider and here is some cool effect when using 179 degree snapping.

Git Repos

• Setup HashLink VM GitHub Action by Cédric Belin.
• math-parser git - A simple math parser, used more of as a learning experience.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Go! Go! PogoGirl by Andrej will be released this year!
• Winter is coming to Go! Go! PogoGirl!
• Super Cosmic Heist - Machinery Repairs Station.
• Super Cosmic Heist - World 5-1 WIP.
• Knock! Knock! The Drifter from Heart Machine will be soon in Dead Cells!
• Oleg Dolya is back to the idea of “neighbourhood generator”.
• Cliff Hall’s tweet about Haxe code enduring.
• Ddmills has written their first Haxe Heaps shader in order to shroud any entities in the fog.
• Using Poisson-Disc sampling to place colonies on the map.
• Tyler shows some bird-flying physics made in HaxeFlixel.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Bumble Bee has been working on a lil game for a while now, its supposed to be a beat-em up bullet hell. Here is the WIP boss.
• Early WIP of a 3D game by Kino.
• Jefvel tests object batching in Heaps - framerate starts to drop at around 60k entities.

Some Library Releases

• mc2it_theme 1.4.0
• mc2it_rte 1.2.2
• itertools 0.0.5
• tyd.hx 1.0.1
• advanced-layout 0.11.0
• linc_luajit 0.0.4
• markov-namegen 1.0.9
• wasm-c 0.1.0
• chaos-framework 2.0.3
• 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 better Overload Support proposal.
• Add haxe.Int64 Numeric Literal Suffix proposal. ️
• Add Static Extension Meta Functions proposal.
• Add Number Separator proposal.
• Add Safe navigation operator proposal.
• Add enum abstract over enum proposal, plus clarification…
• Add Enum abstract instances proposal.
• Add Null coalescing operator proposal.
• Add local static proposal.
• Add support for Self access for abstracts proposal.
• [RFC] Xml Dsl’s discussion.
• Add support for default type parameters proposal.
• Add Default values for enum parameters.
• Do you have an idea to improve Haxe? Consider creating a proposal.

Core Changes

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

• [java] @:java.default vs interface order issue.
• The Haxe Evolution meeting has taken place to discuss proposals, rejecting the following:
  • Add Destructor 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 polymorphic this types proposal.