Haxe Roundup 608

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

• “Sometimes, trace is not enough”, introducing ZenLog by Scott.
• Stoking Rivalry - DQ2 Progress Report for November 2021 by Lars Doucet.
• Dealing with the Android back button for Heaps/Hashlink article by Brad Gill.
• LumbirBwut has written a new entry about adding a Life Bar for Haxe and LDtk tutorial.
• Programming can be fun by MSGhero.
• Heck Deck by torcado had been featured on the App Store in 9 countries, including the USA!
• Kaelan Evans has started tumblr page with notes about daily progress.
• Congrats to Jefvel for Grandpa’s Minigun getting best game of November. via George.

Events

• HaxeJam 2021: Winter Edition starts in three days by logo4poop. ️

Videos & Music

• A Substance Painter Alternative On The iPad Pro?? Is It Any Good? video by Dev Gods.
• Welcome to the HaxeIn by Fiene & Nenad Bojkovski.
• Elvenar - Haxe: Switching to Haxe During Production by Alexander Rotter.
• Introduction to the Glory Framework by Allan Dowdeswell.
• Haxe Winter Report by Simon Krajewski.
• 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

• Frontend Game Developer job offer in Moscow, Russia.
• AS3 to JavaScript (React) via Haxe job offers.
• 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

• “Just act as if nothing happened, human”. The Hold My Beer update will double the content of Nuclear Blaze: new areas, enemies and secrets! And an alternated ending. And cats.
• Spirkop now has a windows version of Energy Island Corp. with Electron and Steamworks integration.
• Addlemoth 1.0.1 demo is out. And mauve wants your feedback!
• TANKMAS HAS STARTED!!! Tankmas ADVENTure 2021 on NewGrounds.
• Mine Blocks bugfix update went out including like 42 improvements!

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Advent of Code 2021 repo by Tim I Hely.
• Drawing with texture, animated by Justin.
• HaxeUI “action manager” is coming along nicely. Still a lot to do, but currently available in GIT version and working well for selected components at least.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, Jeremy Fa is adding a list component to immediate UI API for Ceramic with sortable items, lockable etc…

Git Repos

• ceramic 0.9.3 has been released.
• tink_onbuild git - This is a helper library to streamline onGenerate/onAfterGenerate passes.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• “Daddy I want a fire station in the firefighter game” - That’s how Sébastien Benard prioritize gamedev tasks.
• Sometimes in Renaine you try to be flashy and end up getting blown up twice.
• Rotating a group of objects GIF from Techy Wrinkles.
• Check out what’s planned for stage 1 of WarTales Early Access.
• Super Cosmic Heist - Close Up Gameplay Snippet and Gameplay Snippet #2.
• Oleg Dolya is hoping to turn this into a simple castle eventually.
• Mine Blocks 2 will be getting an engine replacement surgery soon.
• New GIFs from SavanDev:
  • Chapter 2: Laziness.
  • It is now possible to fire more than one bullet.
• New GIFs from Jitter Sandbox by Syo:
  • Improving the air system.
  • Air management system.
  • Improved air emitters.
  • The main menu for demo.
• New GIF and screenshot from Go! Go! PogoGirls by Andrej:
  • Well, I guess localization is happening!
  • Adding more polish, such as a sound test menu to complete that retro experience!

From the Haxe Discord server

• Bloodninja’s editor can finally save and load files.
• Naoya shared a GIF from the WIP game.
• ZwodahS is reworking the UI for the game made for haxe-jam.
• ManuKruopos has shared a quick video from WIP game which is being made with Haxe and Heaps.
• Daniel Blaker is having fun with orbdig on Android.
• More Heaps stuff from Kino.
• Bumble Bee been making a few upgrades.
• Idenner is really happy with how this boss fight is turning out.

Some Library Releases

• lcov 3.0.0
• hxfabric-glue 0.3.0
• raycast 1.2.1
• polymod 1.3.1
• jsasync 1.2.3
• hxasync 1.1.2
• hx_selectors 1.0.1
• 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.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

• Add a type for meaningless values (similar to unit type) proposal.
• Add better Overload Support proposal.
• Add Static Extension Meta Functions proposal.
• Add enum abstract over enum proposal, plus clarification.
• Add Enum abstract instances proposal.
• [RFC] Xml Dsl’s discussion.
• Add Default values for enum parameters.
• Do you have an idea to improve Haxe? Consider creating a proposal.

Core Changes

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

• [php] SHA-256 is wrong on PHP… issue.
• Optimize catch handling merged.