Haxe Roundup 545

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

• Double Turn Combat Experiment #3 Devlog: Signature Rework.
• Some questions about onGenerate and custom targets.
• PogoGirl Devlog #4: Road to SAGE 2020 by Andrej.
• Defender’s Quest 2 Progress for August 2020: Electric Four Square by Lars Doucet.
• Armory Digest September 2020 edition is out!
• LunaSense - RPGMakerMV/MZ Intellisense announcement thread by Kino Rose.
• A couple of Patreon posts by Oleg Dolya:
  • Perilous Shores.
  • Generation in Perilous Shores.

Videos & Music

• Custom Actor Behaviour’s - RPG Playground 0.46 DevLog by RPG Playground.
• Setting up your first game in HaxeFlixel - Part 3 - Automatically rebuilding the game on file save video by Richard Oliver Bray.
• Setting up your first game in HaxeFlixel - Part 4 - Finishing up video by Richard Oliver Bray.
• 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, called “Do can? Teaching I good”.
• 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 - The METAL Rhythm Shooter is now live on Xbox One & the Windows 10 store 🤘.
• Make More Views has been released (in French, English soon), a free to play game on iOS & Android made with Haxe & Ceramic Engine.
• Edu Alonso has stealthily released his shmup practice game made with HaxeFlixel onto itch.io.
• Robert Alvarez has released Color Count, his newest puzzle game, now available on itch.io and Newgrounds. Made with Stencyl.
• Darksburg will be leaving Early Access and officially releasing into 1.0 on the 23rd of September. Watch Official Release Announcement trailer.
• Spellbreak by Proletariat Inc. launches on September 3, 2020 on PS4, PC, Xbox, and Switch! Watch Official Launch Cinematic Trailer. And celebrate the launch with the team during a full day of live streaming from 11AM-11PM EDT.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

• Dimitri Pomier is making progress with out of the box compatibility of the Haxe compiler-plugin & ecso with the official Haxe builds using GitHub Actions.
• FAL released Firedancer v0.1.0 - a Haxe based language for defining 2D shmup bullethell patterns. See examples.
• A peak at a slide for Lewis Lepton’s talk for HaxeIn 2020.
• LEd (generic 2D level editor) by Sébastien Bénard was updated to Alpha 4, with tons of fixes, polish & love. It features an auto-updater so you won’t miss any future update. It’s available for free with tutorials & documentation.
• Lubos Lenco has released Armory 2020.9, haxebullet 2020.9 and iron 2020.9.
• Kaelan Evans is working on a wiki for HxDoom and is looking for feedback.
• A toy programming language by Senk Ju written in Haxe called Snekky, with its source available on GitHub.
• kha-sdf-painter git is a custom g2 extension for Kha to draw shapes using Signed distance fields.
• ActionScapeUX git - Graphical User Experience Framework.
• ProjectEuler git - Attempt at solving the Project Euler problems.
• cphl git - Cairo + Pango + Hashlink: Adds Pango and Cairo functions for text rendering to Hashlink.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• StateGo’s successfully converting C# to Haxe and out to C# & C++ with a Cs2hx tool.
• ty previews a HaxeFlixel powered prototype for a fishing rhythm game.
• GlassySundew’s Heaps powered pixel art preview.
• Dmitry Hryppa finding time to develop his pet project.
• Syo is using a markdown based dialog system allowing him to quickly test directly in VSCode or on GitHub.
• Matzieq continues to work on the minimap for Caverns of Ksantarus with HaxeFlixel and has also published their first devlog over on YouTube.
• Caribou shows a weird controller experiment, an old unfinished project.
• Joseph Azar Heaps exploratory creative coding demo.
• Some great progress on the #gbjam project by Austin East.
• Trail debugging in WIP racing game by Ed Ryzhov.
• Quick video of a game made by Kha by tizilogic.

Some Library Releases

• deepnightLibs 1.0.43
• gmodhaxe 0.1.1
• led-haxe-api 1.0.2
• nme-applovin-ios 6.13.0
• firedancer 0.1.0
• firedancer-vm 0.1.0
• broker 0.5.0
• banker 0.7.0
• sneaker 0.11.0
• ripper 0.4.0
• reckoner 0.2.0
• sinker 0.5.0
• hxnodejs-agentkeepalive 4.1.0
• yweak 0.0.1
• dataclass 3.1.0
• Check out the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

Framework Updates

• [tink_state] Attempt to optimize subscription & update benchmark merged. Appears to be twice as fast as MobX.
• [heaps] Multi-texture support for 2D batch renderers (SpriteBatch, TileGroup and Graphics) pull request by Pavel Alexandrov has been merged.

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

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

• [async] Per-thread event loop pull request.
• [jvm] Float * Int invalid multiplication issue.