Haxe Roundup 609

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

• Catch-up on the rankings from The HaxeJam 2021: Winter Edition!
• PogoGirl Devlog #28: The Release Date!
• Heaps/Hashlink on Android and saving data for Android.
• Happy New Year! Let’s Talk Goals article by E. Zachary Knight.
• New Fraymakers Music! December 2021 Fraymakers Roundup.
• Making an Underwater Music Effect in HaxeFlixel article by Andrej.
• Nicolas Cannasse announces that Shiro Games are working on a new Dune strategy game called Dune: Spice Wars!
• RenchuAye has posted about their progress & getting into gamedev by using Haxe.
• What do you love most about Haxe?
• Oleg Dolya has released a brand new generator for Antlers.
• Oleg Dolya has released a small update for Antlers Generator 1.1.0.
• Perilous Shores 1.3.0: roads and permalinks article by Oleg Dolya.
• Castle in The Mist article by Oleg Dolya.
• Wartales Community Update #1 is now live.
• Web Workers in Lime article and A guide to threads in Lime article.
• Distilling Skills – DQ2 Progress Report for December 2021 by Lars Doucet.
• FeathersUI Devlog: TreeGridView, HierarchicalItemRenderer, required FormItems, and FlowRowsLayout.
• Fixing stutters in Papers Please on Linux article.

Videos & Music

• Rogue of Vallas Level 2 Construction Zone video by Merrak.
• Adding physics to a HaxeFlixel game with Echo | FlxEcho tutorial by Richard Oliver Bray.
• Live previewing in Armory3D video 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

• 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

• Gepatto released a gift for Christmas, a festive themed version of OpenFL’s PiratePig demo available to download for the Raspberry Pi, plus compiled to HTML5.
• IriySoft have released a simple match 3 game called Jewel Monsters made with OpenFL targeting HTML5.
• Ionosofts “Visual Cath Report, a cardiac catheterization reporting and coronary diagramming application). has updated to latest version of HaxeUI successfully (with minimal changes) allowing it utilise all its latest improvements!” via Ian Harrigan. ️
• Advent has released Super Dangerous Dungeons onto Poki! Made with Stencyl.
• Bay Riser Games has released the demo for Bright Bruiser, available on itch.io and Newgrounds, made with Stencyl.
• Mauve has released Addlemoth 1.0.2 demo patch, which is likely the last demo patch, unless more issues appear.
• Chessformer by Robert Alvarez now has a release date for Steam: January 18, 2022!
• Math Push is now available on itch.io and NewGrounds.
• Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea by Motion Twin has landed January 6th on PC & consoles!
• Energy Island Corp will be available on Steam the 19 January, 2022.
• Will Blanton has released two games:
  • Upsquid - an endless squid-em-up where you try to swim as high as you can without falling into the darkness! Originally is was a LDJAM submission from 2015, remade from scratch in 2021!
  • Oxalis origins is a virtual remote ranger application, which was originally released in Indiepocalypse 21.

From the Haxe Discord server

• ZwodahS has released Dice Kingdom 0.1.3 with updated graphics and a new tutorial.
• Package Party by New_Cartoon_64_ツ.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• HaxeUI actions are being overhauled by Ian Harrigan in the latest video sneak peek.
• Ian Harrigan is playing around with Haxe + Windows + Haxe. And making it all a little more “haxey”.
• Sébastien Bénard is experimenting with potential “parallax layers” in the LDtk level editor.
• Another parallax test in ldtk.io 2D level editor, this time using Nuclear Blaze tileset.
• hxDaedalus bitmap pathfinding with cornerContour and no other toolkits by Justin.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Jeremy Fa has started working on a website for ceramic.
• Daniel Blaker has optimised Orbdig perf! With source code available at GitHub.
• Tabs are now a thing with Ceramic’s immediate UI API.
• Benchmark for Adobe Animate Atlas Player for OpenFL Tilemap by Euro Ali.

Git Repos

• light-refraction git - A small game made in Heaps to test out how to use light within a game for solving puzzles.
• YYTextureView git - A tool for exploring textures in GameMaker games. Available online.
• BlackCat git - A Sleek, Modern Tarot Card Prediction Tool.
• DocMd git - A Markdown-esque renderer written in Haxe.
• handlebars-hx git - A Haxe implementation of the handlebars templating engine.
• rabbhx git - An attempt at a port of the uxn virtual machine to Haxe. ️
• hxLruCache git - Simple LRU cache implemented with a Map.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Elevator Music is forbidden inside the Prison Planet by Fierce.
• Super Cosmic Heist - World 4-5 WIP by Fierce.
• Super Cosmic Heist - World 4-1 WIP by Fierce.
• Super Cosmic Heist - The Horizon Towers updated visuals by Fierce.
• A captured specimen by Fierce.
• Merrak shows off a quick experimentation with comic book style artwork for cutscenes in Rogue of Vallas.
• “The intensity of air movement is shown in blue. It’s really the wind. Oxygen generators are triggered when the concentration drops” in JitterSandbox by Syo.
• Happy New Year from Syo and JitterSandbox!
• Syo has taught the crew how to turn air controllers on and off in JitterSandbox.
• Gepatto has been working on “a simple ukulele chord finder app in Haxe & OpenFL with it running on a Raspberry PI 4, also runs on cli, a mac and in a browser. Credits to ukulele.nl for original version!”
• Mine Blocks 2 main menu now remade and working in HTML5!
• SavanDev is learning how to use shaders.
• So, first pass of multi-tile objects works. Giant Skeleton is probably not appearing in Addlemoth but makes a great test.
• Some screenshots from Dune: Spice Wars.
• Placeholder dialogue in Renaine be like.
• Lars Doucet is doing a quick experiment in Defenders Quest 2 to see if the game feels better with much “chunkier” skill points.
• Few quick videos from Kino Rose:
  • Having fun with shaders.
  • Starting work on a new game.
  • Finished another small game playing with shaders.

From the Haxe Discord server

• ShaharMS is working on a golf minigame in which a player controls both of the balls in the same time.
• George has made a waiter that busses tables and serves coffee.
• Gravitational trickshots with Minicology’s cannons.
• Flocking simulation in Haxe by Markl. Here’s a little web build of the flocking example made with Flixel.
• MSGhero is doin’ another NewGrounds game.

Some Library Releases

• escript 0.5.0
• ceramic 0.3.1
• zenlog 0.2.0
• openfl-animate-atlas 0.0.1
• hxasync 1.1.3
• opentype.hx 0.0.3
• bp_duck 1.0.0
• pony 1.6.5
• webstorage 2.0.0
• tink_onbuild 0.1.0
• haxe-w 0.1.1
• boisly_gcp_secrets 1.0.2
• dts2hx_aliases 1.0.0
• boisly_config 1.0.0
• echo-flixel 0.0.1
• echo 4.0.0
• no-vdom 0.8.0
• bootstrap_bundle 1.2.3
• KGtools 0.0.1
• deepnightLibs 1.0.66
• colictionary 1.0.1
• kglog 1.0.1
• markov-namegen 1.1.1
• helder.set 0.3.1
• raycast 1.2.2
• crypto 0.4.0
• 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.

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

38~ commits have been made to Haxe compiler in the last month.

• Relative imports feature request.
• Allow typing expression with added imports and usings feature request.
• Implement abstract to access the abstract has been merged.