Haxe Roundup 562

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

• HaxeFlixel: How To Lock Your UI article by Kino Rose.
• Code Master has published a quick start intro guide to Haxe.
• Check out the short twitter thread by Lars Doucet about the latest Defenders Quest 2 progress.

Videos & Music

• The latest video for the Heaps.io Platformer Tutorial series has been released.
• Extra shadow tiles in RPG Playground video by RPG Playground.
• Adding a finite state machine (FSM) to a HaxeFlixel sprite - Part 3, using FlxFSM video and Part 4, fixing FlxFSM bugs video by Richard Oliver Bray.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Looking for work

• Javid Jafari is looking for a job.
• Joshua Granick is looking for paid 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.
• 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

• Shiro Games are still looking for people to join their team of passionate developers in Bordeaux to work on a new unannounced project.
• Bloognoo is looking for a Haxe developer to help them save live venues.
• 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.
• BeeInventor Limited are hiring for a Haxe fullstack developer to join them in Taipei.

Bounties

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

Product Releases & Announcements

• Dead Cells: Fatal Falls DLC will be released for PC & consoles on 26th January!
• The post-jam version of “Are you there?” by Snappy Sloth is out now on itch.io. Check out the devlog for the latest information.
• Lugren has updated the basic attack behaviours in their “AI and Combat Pack”. Check out the bundle over on itch.io! Made in Stencyl.
• Alex Lanzetta has released the “Collector’s Bundle”, which includes 11 Flash games faithfully preserved, with a launcher that tracks all 100 achievements.
• Kenny Goff has released Micro Shooter, a tiny 1 pixel art, space shooter built in 1 week, using his own WIP engine, playable now in the Browser.
• Avace from the Haxe Discord server has spent a few days creating their first game built using HaxeFlixel.

Code Examples

• None this week.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Terry Cavanagh & Justo Delgado Baudí have made their Arabic text shaping and BIDI library open source! Used in Dicey Dungeons.
• Haxetris prototype by Harpwood, with source code available on GitHub.
• LDtk by Sébastien Bénard can now export levels as PNGs.
• Jérémy Fa is working on the Clay git backend for his Ceramic framework. It’s feature complete regarding rendering, bunnymark project is running fine. Now working on audio.
• Weird Voronoi by Oleg Dolya, made with Haxe and OpenFL.

Project Progress

• hxmake 0.2.10 has been released.

Git Repos

• haxe-filetree-index git - Take a snapshot of the files in a folder at a specific time and compare the files later to get a course view of what files have been added, removed, or changed.
• saving-little-lake git - A turtle colony’s quest to reclaim their homeland.
• seaborg-hxlox git - A Haxe implementation of the Lox tree walk interpreter.
• haxe-joml git - Helper library for using JOML with the Haxe JVM target.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Implementing the goals screen for Go! Go! PogoGirl by Andrej.
• Multi docking spaceships from Jitter Sandbox by Syo.
• Kenny Goff has made an oopsie, but good to know its still a 60fps oopsie.
• President of Space is tweaking the UI and menu system for Caverns of Ksanarus.
• Walking around in a very small/big level by Rat King. Made with Haxe and Kha for The Ray Casting Kajam.
• Alex Johansson found a chestnut from 2019 called SHOTDOGS, a game about stone skipping with guns and he has released a WIP video of SHOTDOG’s hat shop, a pixel art game made with Stencyl.
• Urjasvi Suthar has got shadows working in their framework.
• A couple of quick videos from Renaine:
  • You would not believe your eyes, if eighteen fireflies.
  • Man I hate it when this happens.
• New GIFs from another WIP puzzle game by Robert Alvarez:
  • Attract and repel.
  • Switching polarity.

Some Library Releases

• hxmake 0.2.10
• hxasync 0.0.1
• hx_arabic_shaper 0.0.1
• astar 1.1.0
• kiss 0.0.0
• coconut.feathersui 1.0.1
• haxe-c-bridge 0.1.3
• webstorage 1.0.5
• Check out the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

People & Projects to support

• 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.
• 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 Enum abstract instances proposal.
• Add Null coalescing operator proposal.
• Add local static proposal.
• Allow enums to opt-out of publishing their constructors in the implicit global scope proposal.
• Add destructive assignments 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

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

• Meta for methods that do not need a body suggestion.
• Null-safe std pull request.
• Weird implicit cast hangs the compiler in pattern matching issue.
• [jvm] Unexpected/Broken behaviour when working with public properties in class from external Jar issue.