Haxe Roundup 580

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

• An interview with Sébastien Bénard of Deepnight Games.
• Ludum Dare 48 staff picks article by GitHub highlights Nuclear Blaze (Heaps), Fetal Fury (HaxeFlixel), Fishing Trouble (Heaps) as well as a mention of LDtk (Heaps, Electron).
• The Haxe git repository has reached 20,000 commits!
• PogoGirl Devlog #18: A New Move + Demo Date article by Andrej.
• Learn how to create a full Breakout game in just 6 steps by Andrej with his HaxeFlixel Breakout series.

Videos & Music

• Introduction to HaxeFlixel Part 12 by Questionable Programming.
• Optional arguments in Haxe explained by Richard Oliver Bray.
• Haxe and OpenFL Tutorials: Part 1.2 “Setting up IntelliJ IDEA” video by Chris.
• Haxe Godot Experiment #2 by Michael Bickel.
• 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

• Peter Achberger is available for freelance work.
• Andreas Drewke is looking for a freelancer job or part time job.

Job listings

• HaxeFlixel RPG project.
• Allan Dowdeswell is looking for Haxe developers for outsourcing relationship.
• Nexters (Moscow, Russia) are looking for a Haxe developer to work on their HTML5 game.
• 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.
• 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 & Hong Kong.

Bounties

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

Product Releases & Announcements

• Wayward from the Haxe Discord server has released Mammoth Herder, built for a class project, is available on itch.io. Made with HaxeFlixel.
• Alessandro Pezzetti has releases Leap the Synth, a rhythm platformer based on Synthwave music onto the Apple Store and the Web.
• Ty has released a rhythm game called Burgerline created for a jam, available on itch.io and Newgrounds. Made with HaxeFlixel.
• Axel de Conti, Camille Berring, Benjamin Gobbé and Martin Ringot have released Greenwitch Grove, available from itch.io. Made with Heaps.

  In this plant-based puzzle game, you rebuild our post-collapse world by helping a plant to grow through the metal junk ruins from ancient times. Bend the five elements – Water, Earth, Air, Fire and Ether – and grow your way up - or down - to the pentacle!

• The Clan of the Squirrel and their unrivaled skill in both the kitchen and on the battlefield have arrived ashore the mystical land of Northgard!

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Jérémy Fa has managed to get Dear ImGui working with Haxe on both C# and JS targets. Check out the demo, which may be closed source, but the Dear ImGUI library bindings are open source as is the game engine that uses the library.
• Squidly is looking for collaborators to help make the ultimate tactics engine! It even has attack animations!
• OverWorld is a platformer game made by 1337 from the Haxe Discord server.
• RPGMaker Template For Plugins by Kino Rose.
• In George Harpwood’s game, if a mob kills you, they will celebrate it over your corpse. Made with HaxeFlixel. You can play it on itch.io and get source code from GitHub.

Git Repos

• binaryen.hx git - Haxe externs for binaryen.js.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Syo previews restrictive constructions from ARP Inc in their Jitter Sandbox, made with Heaps. How about one more ARP Inc test.
• Enemy sprite designs for Super Cosmic Heist by Fierce.
• Super Cosmic Heist - World 3-2 WIP by Fierce.
• More Lethal Mountain Level Screenshots from Super Cosmic Heist by Fierce.
• Insightful football quotes are being added to Bad Soccer Manager by Jano Games, made with Stencyl.
• Michael Bickel doing more Haxe Godot stuff…
• Dylan Navas is making progress on “Latin American needs… GRAPE SODA!”. And has set up nightly builds for the game.
• Mauve has showed a new tileset for Addlemoth puzzle game. Aaaaaaanyway got all the tileset stuff together, except for the water animation and the edges.
• You can’t pass through these red walls in new puzzle platformer game by Robert Alvarez.
• Torcado has added a new border design for larger resolutions in Heck Deck.
• Little peek at the next update of Fault by GhostID.
• Small animation created with code by Jérémy Fa.
• Matthijs Kamstra is making a paper-toy-builder desktop app.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Skyfire previews, a new enemy type to Avoider, is available on itch.io.
• Daniel previews a marble sim! Which you can try online.
• Touch controls are now working in WIP game by bloodninja.
• Adobe AIR left, OpenFL Native Windows, right, same code by Chris.
• Belowdecent is making a simple polygon editor in HaxeFlixel.

Some Library Releases

• hscript_template 1.1.0
• electron 13.0.0
• openfl-spine 1.6.2
• coconut.feathersui 1.0.3
• openfl-glsl 0.0.8
• coconut.diffing 0.3.0
• coconut.vdom 0.9.0
• coconut.react-core 0.3.0
• coconut.ui 0.12.0
• Check out the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

People & Projects to support

• Funkin’ Crew is making Friday Night Funkin’, a cartoon rhythm gaming excellence
• Patrick is creating Raspberry Pi 4 support for Haxe/Lime/OpenFL/HaxeFlixel.
• 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 Safe navigation operator proposal.
• Add Destructor proposal.
• Add enum abstract over enum proposal.
• 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

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

• Nothing of interest this week.