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[Kirill]

Have you heard of Haxe? It's a cross-platform programming toolkit and it's perfect for creating games.

And I made a blog where I write tutorials for it every day.

Check it out, subscribe to the newsletter, suggest tutorials, and spread the word!

http://haxecoder.com/

[Photon]

Looks like you've got some nice stuff up on there! I've been wanting to dive a bit deeper into Haxe, personally, and this looks rather helpful. Thanks for sharing!

I'm curious though: what kind of computer are you doing development on?

[Kirill]

Thanks!

I'm on a desktop running Windows 8.1

[Photon]

Ah, OK. Thanks. I'm running Windows 8.x too and I was having trouble getting everything set up when I tried it some months ago. After toying around though I finally figured it out last night: another Haxe-based program had (automatically, I assume) set my repository location to a location I'm not even sure existed . Once I fixed that things finally began to move along.

[Kirill]

I've finished my 6-part tutorial series on making a tile based game using Haxe and OpenFL.

Start here: http://haxecoder.com/post.php?id=25

[Kirill]

New tutorial series started: making a shooting game using HaxePunk. http://haxecoder.com/post.php?id=32

[gbelo]

Bitchin'.

I've heard of Haxe, which looks like a modified version of ActionScript 3. From my understanding, Flash is circling the drain. Is Haxe more promising?

I've also heard of HaxeFlixel, which is apparently a port/remake of the Flixel engine to Haxe. Flixel is neat, so I surmise that HaxeFlixel is as well.

[GalaethGames]

Thanks for this, I was so happy when you started with HaxeFlixel, as I'm learning it at the moment, and one thing that Haxe and the frameworks need are more tutorials.

[InfiniteStateMachine]

haxeflixel is amazing. For 2D it's one of my main goto solutions. 

[gbelo]

Also.. uhm.. any experience migrating from Flash/AS3 to Haxe? I may do that

[InfiniteStateMachine]

are you migrating a codebase? or are you just worried about the transition?

In regards to the transition, it's like actionscript3 but with so many bad things about as3 fixed.

[gbelo]

are you migrating a codebase? or are you just worried about the transition?

In regards to the transition, it's like actionscript3 but with so many bad things about as3 fixed.

Codebase, yeah. Maybe ~20k lines of code. So, nothing too serious, but not trivial either.

Haxe does seem like it'd be worth it, if not just to get it off of Flash. I suppose I may as well just try it, a few classes at a time.

[Circuitbomb]

Awesome tutorial site, Luxe looks pretty interesting.

I've heard of Haxe, which looks like a modified version of ActionScript 3. From my understanding, Flash is circling the drain. Is Haxe more promising?

I'm not so sure its circling the drain, but rather is finding better use outside of the browser.  I've seen Flash/AS3 used in loads of stuff off the web in movies, tv, and in games (Scaleform is a prime example of some middleware).  As, imo, JS and HTML5 have really knocked it out of its primary there's no reason to suspect it won't adopt different aims.  Plus dev and design communities that have fixated on Flash/AS3 and same based technologies are pretty big.

[gbelo]

Awesome tutorial site, Luxe looks pretty interesting.

I've heard of Haxe, which looks like a modified version of ActionScript 3. From my understanding, Flash is circling the drain. Is Haxe more promising?

I'm not so sure its circling the drain, but rather is finding better use outside of the browser.  I've seen Flash/AS3 used in loads of stuff off the web in movies, tv, and in games (Scaleform is a prime example of some middleware).  As, imo, JS and HTML5 have really knocked it out of its primary there's no reason to suspect it won't adopt different aims.  Plus dev and design communities that have fixated on Flash/AS3 and same based technologies are pretty big.

Interesting, thanks! I'll have to look into Scaleform to see how Flash is used to create games.

[EdFarage]

Haxe seems like an interesting language, but im not sure if i'll find the same support there as i find currently on as3. Starling does a lot for me right now, are there any equivalents for Haxe?