Haxe Toolkit and Game Development
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The document provides an overview of the Haxe toolkit, a multi-platform development solution created by Nicolas Cannasse, which was first released in 2005. It describes language features, architecture, available tools, and targets for various use cases, particularly in game development, along with a live demo. Key components include the Haxe standard library, platform-specific APIs, and libraries for building cross-platform applications.
![What does it look like ?
class Test {
static function main():Void {
var people:Array = [
"Elizabeth" => "Programming",
"Joel" => "Design"
];
for (name in people.keys()) {
var job = people[name];
trace('$name does $job for a living!');
}
}
}](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/haxeforgames-140830054014-phpapp02/85/Haxe-Toolkit-and-Game-Development-7-320.jpg)
Haxe Toolkit and Game Development
- 1. Haxe Toolkit A multi-platform development solution by Romuald Halasz, 29.08.2014
- 2. A little bit about me - started work with QuickBasic, BPascal, C++ - Visual Studio 2005, OpenGL, DirectX - PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript - Flash, Flex - Haxe, NME, OpenFl - currently hosting TGD Meetup
- 3. Presentation structure Introduction to Haxe - language features Cross-platform aspects - specific APIs,target specific platforms Games - available tools, live demo
- 4. Getting acquainted with Haxe A bit of history: 22 October 2005 by French developer Nicolas Cannasse Haxe 2.0 was released in July 2008, Haxe 3 was released in May 2013 open source Toolkit: - language - standard library - compiler
- 6. Language Specifics - based on ECMAScript standard, similar to ActionScript - strictly typed - object oriented - conditional compilation (platform specific) - inline calls - metadata - type params, constraints, variance - etc. (pattern matching, abstract types, string interpolation ) - more info: http://haxe.org/documentation/introduction/language-features.html
- 7. What does it look like ? class Test { static function main():Void { var people:Array = [ "Elizabeth" => "Programming", "Joel" => "Design" ]; for (name in people.keys()) { var job = people[name]; trace('$name does $job for a living!'); } } }
- 8. Language Architecture - Haxe API - platform-specific APIs - libraries - frameworks
- 10. Haxe Standard Library - general classes - system (requires platform compilation) - target specific APIs (cpp, cs, flash, php etc.)
- 11. Haxelib - library manager - CLI tool - browse and download libraries: http://lib.haxe.org/
- 12. Targets and Use Cases Name Kind Static typed Sys Use Cases Flash byte code Yes No Games, Mobile Neko byte code No Yes Web, CLI ActionScript 3 source Yes Yes Games, Mobile, API JavaScript source No No Web, Desktop, API PHP source No Yes Web C++ source Yes Yes Games, CLI, Mobile, Desktop Java source Yes Yes CLI, Mobile, Desktop C# source Yes Yes Mobile, Desktop Python source No Yes CLI, Web, Desktop
- 13. Focusing on Games available tools, the stack, frameworks
- 14. Light Media Engine - Lime abstraction layer one codebase for many cross-platform targets available targets: Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Tizen, Emscripten, HTML5
- 15. Lime - How does it work ? Exposes: OpenGL, Audio, Input, windowing, native features Stack: - CLI tools: manage build,package,install,run - native layer: rendering,sound,platform core (C++, Java and Objective-C) - Haxe wrapper - exposes this functionality, abstract differences
- 16. OpenFl - Open Flash Library Cross-platform Flash API Powered by Lime Hardware rendering, compiles to native C++ Reaches more platforms than Adobe AIR Haxe as ActionScript 4 Platforms: Windows,Mac,Linux,iOS,Android,BlackBerry,Tizen,HTML5,Firefox OS,Flash
- 17. OpenFl-compatible libraries HaxeFlixel - Haxe port of Flixel HaxePunk - Haxe port of FlashPunk Nape Physics Engine - 2D rigid body physics Box2D Actuate - tween animation library etc.
- 18. Available Editors and IDEs FlashDevelop Sublime Text - plugin available IntelliJ IDEA - plugin available
- 19. HaxePunk Framework OpenFl-based port of FlashPunk Designed for games Open-source Features - rendering: Image, SpriteMap, Canvas, Emitter, GraphicList etc. - input: Keyboard, Mouse, Joystick, Multi-Touch - tweens: Motion, Sound, Misc. (Angle, Color, Num, Var etc.)
- 20. Creating a new project Creating the config file: XML - meta, window (w/h,fps), source(package,libs), assets path Scenes - entity containers, switch between Entities - primary actors, handle display, collision etc.
- 21. Thank you! ...now on to the demo!