Haxe Roundup 542

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

• Medieval Fantasy City Generator 0.7.7 has been released - inner castles, optional greens & improved warping by Oleg Dolya. And 3d visualization of the Urban Castle. 🏰
• Minicology Project Announcement by Isaac Denner. 🌍👩‍🚀
• HaxeUI now supports the > CSS child operator.
• Combat Experiment #1: Character Passives/Specials in Double Turn.
• Why Haxe by Kino Rose.
• OpenFL GlowFilter tweaks for HTML5 by Tamar Curry.
• Some of the latest updates from Andrej:
  • Strange hitboxes can make your game better.
  • Burnout and Reboot.
  • Working to make menus a bit prettier.

Videos & Music

• Interview with the Haxe language creator Nicolas Cannasse by Context Free.
• Luyren Stencyl Resource Pack Update #1 by Luyren.
• Luyren Stencyl Devlog #2 Analog Aiming by Luyren.
• Richard Oliver Bray has begun working on Beginner’s HaxeFlixel video tutorial series and published 3 videos already:
  • What makes up HaxeFlixel?
  • VSCode setup for game development.
  • Setting up your game - Part 1.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Go! Go! PogoGirl by Andrej will be at SAGE 2020 September 5th-12th.
• HaxeIn 2020 virtual Haxe Summit on October 14-17th 2020.
  • Matthijs Kamstra is planning on submitting a talk proposal.
  • Lewis Lepton has submitted his talk for the HaxeIn.
• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Looking for work

• Justin Mills is looking for a fulltime job. Justin is an ex Flash/AIR/Away3D/Papervision3D expert who’s been using Haxe for 10 years, a good lateral thinker & loves visual stuff, maths and capable at fine art.
• Andreas Drewke is looking for a part time job.
• Kevin Leung is wondering if any Haxe Australian companies are hiring?
• Torcado is looking for a publisher/indie fund to help him fund the rest of the development for Heck Deck. He would love to know any recommendations you may have.

Job listings

• MY.GAMES (Moscow, Russia) are looking for Haxe programmer to work on UI system for their new game project Warface: Breakout.
• Spiele-Palast GmbH are looking for a full time Haxe game developer for web and mobile in Berlin.

Bounties

• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.
• Lars Doucet’s list of various open bounties.

Product Releases & Announcements

• Double Kick Heroes is out on Nintendo Switch, so check out this short video on how to play it.
• DeadCells Barrels o’Fun, the 20th update, is out now for PC and coming soon to consoles!
• Super Cosmic Land made in Stencyl, had been published on itch.io. via FierceTheBandit
• Lifespan Candle is an entry by Havana24 for the Weekly Game Jam with theme “Nothing Stays Forever”.
• 100 vacas by Edu Alonso will be live on steam on August 17th!
• Just Slide by Aditya Chaudhary is out on the Google Play Store.

Code Examples

• Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• The latest release of Haxe NME has improved web support via the hybrid jsprime target. Check out chess code ♟ and a live demo. By Hugh Sanderson.
• Jérémy Fa is playing with the idea of making ceramic engine (written in Haxe) work inside Unity. Got a first step working: can display ceramic quads on screen inside the editor.
• Kaelan Evans has implemented Doom texture combination mechanism in HxDoom project.
• hx-yoga git - Externs for the Yoga layout library by Kevin Leung.
• haxe-vector git - Most Complete easy to use vector2d/3d for Haxe.
• HaxePixiJS git - The Haxe high quality definitions for PixiJS and libraries.
• Edu Alonso decided to make a shmup game in a couple of days. Here is the public repository for the project, with some GIFs and pics showing progress:
  • Mockup.
  • When you move sideways, the aircraft is properly tilted.
  • Now we can shoot.
  • More progress.
  • New enemy.
  • Midboss.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Landscapes? Yeah I can do that from Skullz 'n Skeletonz by pizzamakesgames.
• Hangin out with a flounder from Leapin Lads by Cory Martin.
• A simple webpage for Heck Deck by torcado.
• Snowman Slide by Alex Lanzetta is now fully ported to my Haxe.
• Crumble rock platforms in WIP turn based puzzle game by mauve.
• IriySoft is working on a new tilty game. It’s gonna be a mountain bicycle riding action.
• Robert Alvarez has been working on better visual feedback for his colour counting puzzle game.
• Fun fact: Hollow Knight by Team Cherry actually started as a Stencyl game. via torcado.

Some Library Releases

• formula 0.4.1
• josephsmendoza.ipc 2.0.1
• tink_core 1.27.1
• tink_macro 0.20.1
• haxeui-html5 1.1.1
• haxeui-core 1.1.2
• p2p 0.1.43
• utils 1.1.3
• gm2d 4.1.1
• nme 6.1.1
• Check out the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

• None this week.

People & Projects to support

• 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 destructive assignments proposal.
• Add notation for native optional arguments 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 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 Default values for enum parameters.
• Do you have an idea to improve Haxe? Consider creating a proposal.

Core Changes

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

• Add @:functionalInterface pull request.
• [jvm] Unwrap jvm threads merged.
• @:inheritDoc implementation merged.
• [jvm] Add -D jvm.dynamic-level={0-2} with some numbers from Dox.