Haxe Roundup 564

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

• Train Lord - The MMOG using real world data and maps announcement, previously written in AS3, now ported to Haxe JavaScript and using data from OpenStreetMap.
• You can now support Feathers UI with GitHub Sponsors.
• Collision and Overlap HaxeFlixel tutorial by Andrej from Ohsat Games.
• The latest HaxeFlixel tutorial by Kino Rose, Simple Text Cutscene article.
• Rat King has written an article about his game’s ray-caster engine.
• March of the Machines: DQ2 progress report for December 2020 and January 2021 by Lars Doucet.
• Medieval Fantasy City Generator 0.8.1: Major UI changes post by Oleg Dolya.

Videos & Music

• Axol Studio has made a post-mortem stream on Twitch about their game Repossessed.
• How to create a simple GLSL shader in VSCode - Part 2 - Shader Course 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.
• Solar Powered Games are looking for a Haxe/OpenFL game developer to join them, check out the community posting for more detail.

Bounties

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

Product Releases & Announcements

• Robert Alvarez newest puzzle game, Polarity Switch, is available on itch.io and Newgrounds. Made with Stencyl.
• Cody Claborn created a game called Spooky Signals for the #GGJ21 jam, while also learning more about Heaps. Source code available on GitHub.
• Pirhana has completed their game for the #BTPGameJam, an addictive matching game about clearing your board, available on itch.io, with the source code available on GitHub.
• Rat King has uploaded their ray caster project created for the #alakajam.
• A new Mine Blocks Beta update is out now!
• Found in Space is a #GGJ2021 entry by Bit Decay Games, made with HaxeFlixel.
• Ghost Rush is another #GGJ2021 entry, made with Armory3D.
• Axol Studio has released two games, Repossessed which is their FIRST of 2021 Monthly Mini-games and Spooksville, USA.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

Releases

• iron 2021.2, zui 2021.2 and armory 2021.2 have been released.
• Ceramic 0.7.0 and 0.7.1 have been released.

  • This release disables luxe backend in favor of the new clay backend, to export to windows, mac, linux, ios, android and html5 platforms.

Git Repos

• [haxe-c-bridge] Enable passing strings and arbitrary haxe types to C via an opaque pointer merged.
• Haxe and Heaps example repo demonstrating super simple concepts with Heaps.
• omg git - open (world) map gen - generate a map for an open world game.
• star git - An experimental programming language that’s made to be powerful, productive, and predictable.
• zippy git - A modern statically typed functional programming language from the future.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Alex Lanzetta’s “11 games in 60 seconds” elevator pitch video!
• The latest preview of Steel Seraph, a game made with Stencyl.
• Birds are now causing your manager to fall over, in Jano Games football manager game made in Stencyl.
• Manuel Alabor is exploring game dev concepts with LDtk, Haxe and Heaps.
• The Renaine team is proud to announce: More bees!
• Techy Wrinkles got basic map loading, collision working for WIP roguelike game.
• “…what’s that floating in the sky?” by Andrej.
• Survival test in Fault: added drops and stuffssss.
• Still stuck on the lava level of Caverns of Ksantarus. But at least President of Space is moving forward - steadily, even if slowly.
• Fab has added enemies to WIP Heaps platformer.
• Starting on the map generator… by zvava from Haxe Discord server.
• A couple of new screenshots from Oleg Dolya:
  • More colors.
  • Road network of a large walled city.
• A couple of GIFs by Nyrh from Haxe Discord server:
  • UI library for Heaps preview.
  • Ported the pathfinding from Unity to Heaps.

Some Library Releases

• dropecho.ds 1.3.0
• hxasync 0.3.3
• externs 0.5.0
• pixi-sound 2.0.5
• haxe-c-bridge 0.5.1
• apollo 0.2.5
• react-next 1.122.0
• pancake 1.0.13
• mergejson 1.1.0
• autokey 1.0.0
• 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

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

• Enum abstract should be String fixed.
• Add ability to query adjacent entries of a haxe.ds.BalancedTree pull request.