Haxe Roundup 586

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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

• Haxe 4.2.3 has been released.
• Robert Yang has released “We Dwell In Possibility”, available on virtual factory, a queer gardening sim in collaboration with Eleanor Davis, Aya_Yco, Sophia Foster-Dimino & Andy Grier commissioned by Manchester International Festival. Read more about the game in Robert’s artist statement “that discusses the game logic, dev process, intent, politics, and inspirations”.
• Defenders Quest 2 progress report for June 2021: The Rule of Firsts in Game Testing by Lars Doucet.
• Feathers UI Devlog: Polishing things up for beta.4, to be released in July.
• Kirill Poletaev has added a dynamic hint system to Pilie Pals.
• Torcado is looking for beta testers for Heck Deck!
• GPU particles thread where rainyt shows openfl-gpu-particles git WIP lib.

In case you missed it

• Happy 10 year anniversary of Mine Blocks!
• Using Finite State Machines in HaxeFlixel article by Andrej.
• Perilous Shores 1.1.2: lakes, editable names by Oleg Dolya.
• SlavaRa has added PreviousEdit Plugin for FlashDevelop/HaxeDevelop which allows you to quickly navigate between previosly edited pieces of code.
• PogoGirl Devlog #22: Graphics Overhaul by Andrej.
• Keyreal has republished his Haxe tutorials to https://keyreal-code.github.io/haxecoder-tutorials/ that originally existed on Haxecoder, via the Haxe Discord server.

Videos & Music

• The next episode of The Newgrounds Podcast will be dedicated to the future of gaming. List of guests: Lars Doucet, ninja_muffin99 and Nicolas Cannasse!
• How to create a 2D projectile trajectory path in HaxeFlixel video by Richard Oliver Bray.
• Introduction to HaxeFlixel Part 18 by Questionable Programming.
• Why I chose Kha to make my game devlog for Savage Steel by Domarius Games.
• Interactive ArchViz by Alexander Kleemann is showcasing some interactive architectural visualization in Armory3D for the HTML5/Browser target.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

In case you missed it

• Introduction to HaxeFlixel Part 17 by Questionable Programming.
• 8 Tips to improve your game’s performance in HaxeFlixel by Richard Oliver Bray.

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

• A short term & remote code review job for a HaxeFlixel Browser Game is available.
• Saga Education are looking to hire a full-time software engineer focusing on web & edtech. US only.

  • Saga Education, is hiring a senior-level software engineer. We use a lot of tech, both frontend and backend, but a lot of our frontend code is in Haxe. We build cool, meaningful EDTech products like this digital whiteboard: Woot Math Scratchpad.

• HaxeFlixel RPG project.
• Nexters (Moscow, Russia) are looking for a Haxe developer to work on their HTML5 game.
• 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.

Bounties

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

Product Releases & Announcements

• Aurel previews some terrain destructive pew pew in their #Alakajam 12 entry titled “Alient to the Past”.
• Robert Alvarez has released his latest puzzle game called Matchkey, available on itch.io and Newgrounds. Made in Stencyl.
• Kirill Poletaev has released two updates for the Polie Pals demo: one with the new hint system and other with reworked intro animations and many other little changes.
• The Steam store page for the Go! Go! PogoGirl is now live!
• The Art of Northgard is the definitive look into the history and art of Northgard’s Viking mythology by Shiro Games.

From the Armory Discord

• Daniel Jackson has released Space Ship Ping Pong, available from itch.io.

In case you missed it

• CrossCode is out now on the PS5, powered by #kha!
• Announcement from torcado: Heck Deck now has a store page on Steam!

From the Haxe Discord server

• Keyreal has announced his newest game - Pilie Pals, made using his custom game engine YUME written in Haxe. Check out the Demo Trailer and grab the demo available from itch.io.

Code Examples

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

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Ian Harrigan shows off the many many faces of HaxeUI.
• Ian Harrigan HaxeUI fun side diversion, a PDCurses image viewer.
• Oleg Dolya previews the first test of simple blob like woods in Perilous Shores. And in other news…
• Ian Harrigan previews the PDCurses HaxeUI backend, a fully text rendered backend! via the Haxe Discord server.

Git Repos

• zymkey git - This is a pure JS binding for Zymbit’s “C interface to Zymkey Application Utilities Library” through the ffi-napi package.
• hatlang_haxe git - A reference for the language in Hatstack.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• More YES/NO choices in Jano Games Football Manager game. Do you sign Sammy Selfish? Made with Stencyl.
• Avizura has almost completed their editor for their rhythm game Break Beat Battle Machines, created with HaxeFlixel.
• Syo continues to improve the markdown based dialogue system, with scripts based on hscript and labels bound to actions.
• Super Cosmic Heist (2022) World 3-3 WIP by Fierce.
• Art from an upcoming HaxeFlixel game by Kino Rose.
• Techy Wrinkles is considering player damage with their own shots while in burst mode.
• Michael Bickel has “decided to check if I can do 3D flow fields for pathfinding in 3D space. First step: Voxels.” Using Haxe & Godot engine. Plus spaceships! And with more voxel stuff!
• Dan has updated the graphics for their bomberman inspired game.
• The graphics overhaul of Go! Go! PogoGirl by Andrej continues with the summer season!
• New screenshots from WIP Addlemoth game by mauve:
  • Reorganized the editor object palette.
  • Tweaked edgings of the aqueducts tileset.

From the Haxe Discord server

• SeiferTim has spent the last couple of days adding Newgrounds API and medals and stuff to Monster Match.
• 01010111 shares some mockups for the node based scripting platform they want to make!

From the Armory Discord server

• Rocket shares a quick playthrough vid of their game.

Some Library Releases

• tinymce 0.1.1
• tinymce-react 0.1.1
• tink_macro 1.0.0
• tink_syntaxhub 0.5.0
• coconut.vdom 0.10.0
• env-define 1.0.0
• haxe-doctest 3.1.8
• cctweaked 2.3.2
• redistHelper 0.4.12
• hxdefold 1.2.184
• 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

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

• Add environment variables as env.* defines pull request.

You can get started using the latest features by downloading a nightly build of Haxe and see the impact the latest changes have on each target by browsing the benchmarks site.

Take it easy everyone, stay safe and have a good week!