Haxe Roundup 612

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

• PogoGirl Devlog #30: The Game Is Released! by Andrej. ️
• Introducing: House Atreides from Dune: Spice Wars.

Videos & Music

• Observation Tower Infiltration video by Merrak.
• Adding physics to a HaxeFlixel game with Echo part 3 | Player movement physics by Richard Oliver Bray.
• How to make a flappy donut game in Armory 3D - beginner tutorial by Exceptional 3D tutorials.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Looking for work

• Rudy Geslin is looking for full-time remote work.
• Peter Achberger is available for freelance work.
• Andreas Drewke is looking for a freelancer job or part time job.

Job listings

• ScottPlusPlus is looking to hire a Haxe developer, ideally with web experience, to help with consultation and code-reviews for a couple hours per week.
• ZAVOD Games (Moscow, Russia) are looking for a Senior Haxe developer to work on Taonga: the Island Farm
• Frontend Game Developer job offer in Moscow, Russia.
• AS3 to JavaScript (React) via Haxe job offers.
• Little team is looking for a Haxe developer to work on HTML5 games.
• Nexters (Moscow, Russia) are looking for a Haxe developer to work on Hero Wars.
• Nevosoft (Saint Petersburg, Russia) are looking for a Haxe developer to work on their mobile game Charm Farm.
• Nexters (Moscow, Russia) are looking for a Haxe developer to work on the web-version of their project Throne Rush.
• Shiro Games are looking for a Senior Game 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. ️

Bounties

• Basic Platformer Pathfinding AI for HaxeFlixel $150 bounty.
• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.

Product Releases & Announcements

• In your books has launched their Steam page!
• Shiro Games have released Northgard - Dodsvagr, Clan of the Rat DLC available on Steam.
• Go! Go! PogoGirl, Andrej’s loveletter to 90s platformers, has been RELEASED! Available from Steam and itch.io!
• Via the Haxe Discord server, Pack Your Bags by jefvel, made for Newgrounds pixel day, has been released.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Haxe OpenFl binaries are working on Raspberry Pi Zero 2, plus Gepatto successfully compiling an “OpenFL/HaxeFlixel app on the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 if you expand the swapfile but it does take a while”.
• Ian Harrigan has added a small addition to HaxeUI, an “optional search field for (composite) dropdowns! Makes find the right option that little simpler!”.
• Sébastien Benard will be releasing LDtk within the next few days, which “offers a new very powerful Entity reference system that makes designing “circuits” of triggers super easy to setup (eg. a button that triggers light multiple spots)”!
• Experimental treeview is in HaxeUI’s core now.
• Procedurally generated hex map by Oleg Dolya.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Jeremy Fa has uploaded a few demos made with Ceramic (web export is automated now via GitHub action):
  • Hello World.
  • Lines.
  • Mesh 2D.
  • Quad Drag.
  • Spine Raptor.

Git Repos

• [kode/kinc] Move HTML5 backend to C pull request.
• parseNumber git - Simple function and abstract to allow checking if a String is a valid number (Float or Int), created by Justin.
• ceramic 0.9.7 has been released.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Fraymakers preview some crazy animations for Octodad.
• Super Cosmic Heist - World 2-4 by Fierce.
• Super Cosmic Heist - World 1-3.
• Super Cosmic Heist - Title Screen WIP.
• Syo is celebrating 495 followers on Twitter.
• Shockwave effect in Alien Shepherd.
• Sneak peek at what’s to come in the first Wartales Content Update.
• The turtle from Addlemoth by mauve wakes up after a single push.
• Squidly decided to use LDTK for Renaine for reals this time.
• BSOD continues work on failed HaxeJam entry.
• An other location from In your books.
• Playing with Heaps by Techy Wrinkles.
• SavanDev’s progress on the in-game editor.
• JB is testing some water.
• Merrak is “implementing a dynamic lighting model for Rogue of Vallas”. Made in Stencyl.
• The Haxe/Lua target appears to still be in use for the latest Pokémon games on the Nintendo Switch.
• Couple of quick videos from Soccer SkyScrapers by JanoGames:
  • My version of Gorillas on QBasic.
  • Got rid of the textbooks in favour of buttons and arrows.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Makoren has made a little platformer made in Flixel to practice.
• Makoren has made pong to help practice Haxe and Heaps.
• Nathmate is working on a LEGO tabletop wargame adaptation - MFØ:IO Proof of Concept. And using Heaps.
• Couple of GIFs from Naoya:
  • Go ahead my child.
  • Prison-01.

Some Library Releases

• flixel-demos 2.8.1
• flixel 4.11.0
• pony 1.7.9
• CXXGraph 0.3.0
• ecso 1.0.0-alpha.6
• vector-math 2.3.0
• haxe-c-bridge 0.7.0
• html-to-text 8.0.1
• deepnightLibs 1.0.67
• electron 16.0.7
• weatherapi-hx 0.0.1
• firetongue 2.1.0
• polymod 1.4.1
• openfl-atlas 1.2.0
• 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.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

• Add a type for meaningless values (similar to unit type) proposal.
• Add better Overload Support proposal.
• Add Static Extension Meta Functions proposal.
• Add enum abstract over enum proposal, plus clarification.
• Add Enum abstract instances proposal.
• [RFC] Xml Dsl’s discussion.
• Add Default values for enum parameters.
• Do you have an idea to improve Haxe? Consider creating a proposal.

Core Changes

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

• Haxe 4.2.x Timer regression fixed.
• Safe navigation operator pull request.