Haxe Roundup 571

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

• Dead Cells sold 1 million copies in China ‘within a few days’ of launch.
• community.haxe.org is back up and running! After a fire at the hosting datacenter.
• HF Breakout 3 - Hitting Bricks tutorial by Andrej, publicly available on the 27th March.
• LunaTechs - Case Files RPGMaker Plugin article by Kino Rose.

Videos & Music

• Introduction to HaxeFlixel Part 3 by Questionable Programming.
• Stencyl Tutorial Series: Actor Aura and After Image Update video by Luyren.
• Music Teaser for Patches Of Adventure by Rob Clemmons Jr.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Upcoming Events & Talks

• Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Job listings

• To reach their goal of helping to save one million lives every year by 2030, Laerdal is looking for a Software Platform Developer to join them in Copenhagen. Remote work is possible, but will require several days a week on site.
• Shiro Games are looking for an Engine/Graphics programmer.
• 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

• Dicey Dungeons v1.11 is now live on Steam and Itch.io! Read all about it here. via Terry Cavanagh.
• The BadSeed DLC for Dead Cells is coming March 30th on your mobile devices! via Playdigious.
• Luyren has added an input buffer for all attacks/commands in AI and Combat pack.
• Arachnowopunk by Benny Heller is now available for free on iOS!

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• A couple of videos from gepatto:
  • HaxeFlixel Breakout Example on a RaspberryPi 4 with a RaspberryPi Pico as a usb-gamepad.
  • HaxeFlixel demo “Flixius” running on a Raspberry Pi 4 at 800x600. You can also download the binary to run it on your device.

Git Repos

• colyseus-haxe 0.14.8 has been released.
• haxelock git - A basic Haxe build tool for keeping the dependencies and Haxe locked.
• haxe-stretch git - Experimental port of https://github.com/vislyhq/stretch to Haxe.
• haxe_macro_compiler_example git - An example Haxe macro compiler.
• nuc git - Lightweight Cross-platform 2D game framework.
• A HaxeUI Basic GUI git by Fred Langva.
• [tink_web] A way to just obtain a route’s URL without invoking it issue.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Renaine testing out their new combo counter by breaking it. The previews look a lot better zoomed in.
• LDenner has added a target for testing actual weapon DPS via the Haxe Discord channel.
• Mig Moog is “making a fangame of @Levi__Ramirez’s The Glutton’s Spray. It’s made with HaxeFlixel and Austin East’s physics library echo”.
• Failed docking of the “Soyuz” spacecraft in Jitter Sandbox by Syo, made with Heaps. And Syo has launched a simple site for Jitter Sandbox.
• WIP Super Cosmic Heist World 2-1, World 2-2 & World 2-4 by Fierce, made in Stencyl.
• “The Cavern Mines have you deal with deactivating Mine Drills/Grinders and riding Cable-Cars to advance” by Fierce.
• “Look at those little guys go! Made this game in a week with Haxe and HaxeFlixel .” by Kino Rose.
• 👺 “get him, boys!” by 1speed. And a night-day GIF from the Haxe Discord channel.
• Today’s weekly Mine Blocks Beta update includes xp orbs, functioning eyes of ender and 5000 lines of code for mobs being ported.
• 3B New Hallucination Effects from Steel Seraph.
• The first attempt at creating a proper boss by Questionable Programming.
• New quick video by GlassySundew showcasing save games management.
• mauve is back to making obnoxious puzzles again.
• Screenshot from shakesode showing Haxe HL/C + bgfx running happily on M1 Mac Mini.
• Hmm… what could this be? from WIP game Heck Deck by torcado.
• SCRAPS OF LIGHT GAME is working on really dark hallways, using really old rendering techniques.
• Simple physics with Heaps by Techy Wrinkles.
• The industrial scenario of Energy Island Corp. by Spirkop games.
• Portals and gravity from WIP game by Robert Alvarez.
• Does this count as a chorus line? from Go! Go! PogoGirl by Andrej.
• The palindromes are actually really hard to type. You’re typing LTR but then the remaining letters are back where you started. By Nick.
• A proof-of-concept generator for a Truncated Cone by Matthijs Kamstra.
• Another generated papertoy from an unfinished book by Matthijs Kamstra.
• Some experiments from Oleg Dolya, which I believe will end up in Medieval Fantasy City Generator:
  • This kind of polygon partitioning looks promising.
  • Neighbourhoods.

Some Library Releases

• colyseus 0.14.8
• cctweaked 2.1.0
• vshaxe 2.23.0
• dropecho.dungen 1.4.0
• dropecho.ds 1.4.0
• dropecho.interop 0.3.0
• pancake 1.0.17
• godot 3.2.3
• Check out the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

People & Projects to support

• Josh Tynjala is working on Feathers UI — open source, cross-platform UI components built with OpenFL.
• 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

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

• No-op switch not eliminated by analyzer fixed.
• Abstract implicit cast prevents finding explicit one issue.
• [crypto] FIX: Aes, Blowfish, Des and Twofish decrypt() functions merged.
• Compiler define flags switching dash to underscore can result in flag defined with two values issue.
• [hxcpp] _dyn can make HXCPP fail issue.