Haxe Roundup 524

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

• New Haxe blog post: Shiro Games Technology Stack.
• Heaps 1.8.0 has been released!
• Stoneset has exceeded 15,000 games played!
• All the submissions to Stencyl Jam #19 itch.io page.
• Balancing Quarantine: Defender’s Quest 2 Progress for March 2020 by Lars Doucet.
• If you’re interested in Haxe’s history and its predecessors, Nicolas Cannasse has put together some old sources archives with notes for you to browse.

Videos & Music

• Game from Scratch: Shiro’s Game Tech - Amazing, Battle Tested & Relatively Unknown Game Engine.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Newgrounds is hosting the HaxeFlixel Game Jam, ending on April 27th! With prizes ranging from $50-$350.
• EU Haxe Summit 2020 - Let’s meet in Linz.
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Job Offers & Bounties

• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features and one of the them is already claimed.
• New bounty by Kaleido Games: Bounty to make OpenFL work with (FNA/UWP).
• NX Studio (Moscow, Russia) are looking for a Haxe programmer to work on their game called “Throne Rush”.
• Shiro Games are recruiting for different roles to expand their studio and work on upcoming, exciting projects!
• Lars Doucet’s list of various open bounties.
• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Product Releases & Announcements

• Slide Together by Robert Alvarez is available on itch.io and Newgrounds.
• PARcentage by Alex Johansson is available for beta-testing at TestFlight.
• Mayur Patil has finished the work on “Space Shooter Reloaded”. You could play it at itch.io.
• The wait is nearly over - Dead Cells is coming to Android on June 3rd! Pre-register on the Play Store to get a notification on release day.
• No No Solo is puzzle game were you have to get to each other. It is also a HaxeFlixel game jam entry by Fab.
• Sonar Smash by fedellen should be released for iOS, Android, PC, and Mac on April, 8th.

Code Examples

• HaxeFlixel tips and tricks by ninja_muffin:
  • Command line basics.
  • Working with Flash animation.
  • Some HTML5 export tips.
• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• The Cosy programming language now has a foreign function interface!.
• Aidan Lee has spent a few afternoons getting Haxe / HXCPP running on the PSVita with the homebrew SDK. The modified version of HXCPP can be found at GitHub as well as sample project.
• Nanjizal has made more tweaks for his Covid19 UK map.
• New creative coding sketches by Matthijs Kamstra:
  • Covid19 series: Social Distancing.
  • Covid19 series: Free for all version 2.
  • Triangle pattern generator.
  • Here are also a couple of screenshots of his pattern generator.

Closed Source

• Sewing in ArmorPaint by Lubos Lenco. 🧵
• High score sound from Leapin Lads by Cory Martin.
• New stage selection screen from WIP turn based puzzle game by mauve.
• Charles Matthews is making game for Newgrounds during the HaxeFlixel game jam.
• WIP main menu from JitterSandbox by Syo.
• New title screen of Skullz’n’Skeletons is coming along.
• Darek Greenly has started improving his old GrayScale gamejam game.
• Kirby’s Dreamland 3 Inspired Level Clear Conditions by MortMort.
• From Haxe discord, WikiAdventure is a game based on the Wikipedia API made with hxNodeJS. Check out the GIF preview.
• Simple Stencyl game running on Raspberry Pi 3, by Koko.
• A couple of quick videos of VR 3D platformer by Danny Yaroslavski:
  • Wait, can I block out levels with TiltBrush?? … 10 mins later…
  • Sketched out another one!
• New screenshots from City Generator by Oleg Dolya:
  • Tiny towns
  • Slightly improved tiny towns

Some Library Releases

• turnwing 2.0.0
• heaps 1.8.0
• json2object 3.7.0
• hxnodejs-request 2.69.4
• hxnodejs-ecdsa-secp256r1 1.0.3
• hxnodejs-smart-buffer 1.0.0
• extype 2.2.1
• hx-delaunator 1.0.0
• callfunc 1.1.0
• seedyrng 1.1.0
• broker 0.1.0
• banker 0.4.0
• ripper 0.3.0
• sneaker 0.8.1
• markdown 1.1.1
• hxTypedArray 0.0.1
• HxDoom 0.0.4-alpha
• asys 0.4.0
• zame-particles 1.3.0
• deepnightLibs 0.0.36
• vshaxe 2.19.0
• hxbolts 1.1.2
• Checkout the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

• [tink_http] Rework AWS Lambda container merged.

People & Projects to support

• 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 Default implementations in interfaces proposal.
• Add Abstract classes proposal.
• Add ReadOnlyArray optimisation proposal.
• Carry comments through to target language 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 Type parameter variance for Enums.
• Add Default values for enum parameters.
• Do you have an idea to improve Haxe? Consider creating a proposal.

Core Changes

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

• Wrong var shadowing issue.
• [Abstracts] this modification lost in tempvaring, fixed.
• [Abstracts] this modification in non-inlined method doesn’t error, fixed.
• Added Ast.mk_type_path to check every type_path creation, merged.