Haxe Roundup 611

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

• PogoGirl devlog #29: Scrap Brain by Andrej.
• 2022 IGF nominees: on history article by Andrew Plotkin.
• On starting over by Joseph.
• Oleg Dolya asks your opinion: Ignoring the presentation, is this how you would expect hexes to be numbered?.

Videos & Music

• Haxe Tutorial - Get Up and Running with Haxe video by Awais Mirza.
• Web Development With Haxe - Project Setup video by Awais Mirza.
• HeimPlot video - testing a plotting apps performance using Kha, Dear ImGUI, implot and TinyExpr via Haxe, Cpp & Java by Valentín Barros.
• 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

• Chessformer puzzle game by Robert Alvarez is out on Steam.
• Energy Island Corp by SpirkopGames is available on Steam. They’ve also opened a discord server. You’re welcome if you want to talk about the game or report a bug!

From the Haxe Discord server

• Impulse by Daniel Blaker. Made with Haxe + Kha + poly2tri + Nape.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• A demo of the new FireTongue in development for Polymod by MasterEric. ️
• Add execution time merged into utest.
• Ian Harrigan whilst working on HaxeUI steppers has added a simple, but useful option stepper. Plus new styles for number steppers!
• Sébastien Benard’s next release of LDtk will support references between game objects, plus the ability to stack levels!

From the Haxe Discord server

• Jefvel is working on a new little game.
• Rough drawing on a haxe-ui/wxwidgets image by Justin.

Git Repos

• polymod 1.4.0 has been released!
• MiniMP3.hx git - MP3 decoder for native platforms by ʇ0mmy. ️
• box2d-xml-parser git - Parse box2d XML generated by PhysicsEditor.
• nitro-script git - An hscript wrapper that parses hscript in discrete chunks to support easy cutscene scripting.
• hxdartgen git.
• duckjet git - WildDuck + MailJet Mail Transport Service.
• FireDuck git - A tink_web session leveraging WildDuck + Firebase/Google Identity.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Gepatto shares a video of his ukulele chord finder prototype built with OpenFL on the Raspberry Pi.
• Mauve’s recent WIPs for Addlemoth: tileset prototypes for crypt and laboratory, multi-tile objects, and potential new water enemies.
• Turtles are turtles.
• Entity type creation for Addlemoth is pretty streamlined at this point.
• Mine Blocks was added to Twitch’s game catalog, so you can select it as a game when you livestream it!
• Syo has updated Jitter Sandbox website and added fresh videos and screenshots. And also the Ukrainian version. Welcome!
• Status update on input bug fixing from Andrej: I can make PogoGirl poop sparks. And Go! Go! PogoGirl has been approved by Steam.
• Alien Shepherd is going live on February 25th on Steam. The game is being made with Heaps engine. Here are also a few sneak peaks of the game’s design evolution.
• Nikolay has added Korean language support for Kanyon Karver.
• The first STAGE REVEAL for Fraymakers since Kickstarter: Say hello to Pepperpain from Slap City!
• Some footage of the snazzy new tutorial section for SHOTDOGS by Alex Johansson.
• A new screenshot from Patches Of Adventure by RobClemmonsJr: Eventually, we get somewhere.
• JanoGames is working on a prototype of Qbasic Gorillas with a soccer twist.
• Kino Rose is slowly putting new game together.
• George Harpwood is studying procedural animation and inverse kinematics with HaxeFlixel.
• Behind the scenes of “In your books” (a short indie game about a young woman running a bookshop while looking for her grandmother): tweaking characters positions using a combination of custom tool + CastleDB.
• JB has built some small demo in a month with Haxe and Heaps.
• Super Cosmic Heist - World 5-2, featuring the official music for The Prison Planet composed by Pat via Fierce.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Player vision shader by Prexot/goldenPiGames.
• Main menu for WIP game by Athran.
• Tyler is working on a platformer/shooter.

Some Library Releases

• vector-math 2.2.1
• pirhana 1.1.3
• boisly_config 1.1.1
• pony 1.7.6
• node-mailjet 3.3.8
• fireduck 1.0.1
• mc2it_theme 1.6.1
• xa3.format 0.2.5
• polymod 1.4.0
• boisly_gcp_secrets 1.0.21
• google-cloud-secret-manager 3.10.1
• google-gax 2.28.1
• grpc-proto-loader 0.6.7
• grpc-grpc-js 1.4.5
• long 4.0.1
• proto3-json-serializer 0.1.6
• protobufjs 6.11.2
• firebase-admin 10.0.1
• google-cloud-storage 5.16.1
• google-cloud-common 3.8.1
• google-auth-library 7.11.0
• gtoken 5.3.1
• gaxios 4.3.2
• teeny-request 7.1.3
• node 17.0.6
• firebase-database-types 0.9.3
• firebase-app-types 0.7.0
• firebase-util 1.4.2
• firebase-component 0.5.9
• firebase-logger 0.3.2
• hxdefold 1.2.191
• bp_duck 1.0.3
• mc2it_rte 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.

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

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

• Support static for locals pull request.