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Haxe Game Development Essentials

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Haxe Game Development Essentials

Overview of this book

Haxe is a powerful and high-level multi-platform language that's incredibly easy to learn. Used by thousands of developers and many high-profile companies, Haxe is quickly emerging as a forerunner in the area of cross-platform programming. OpenFL builds on top of Haxe to make developing for multiple platforms quick and painless. HaxeFlixel provides you with the tools you need to build amazing 2D games easier than ever before. Cross-platform development has been supercharged using the Haxe programming language, making it increasingly easy and hassle-free to develop multi-platform games. If you've programmed games before and want to learn out how to deliver games across multiple platforms, or develop games faster, then Haxe Game Development Essentials is the book for you. It starts by showing you how to set up your development environment, then running you through some Haxe language fundamentals, and finally taking you through the process of programming a game from start to finish. You will learn how to create a side scrolling shooter game using HaxeFlixel. Next you will learn to enhance the game with new gameplay features, user interfaces, animations, sound, and configuration files to make your game expandable. Once your game is built and ready, you will learn how to deploy it to web, Android, iOS, and desktop systems. By the end of this book, you will be confident about creating multi-platform games using Haxe, OpenFL, and HaxeFlixel in a faster and easier way.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Haxe Game Development Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The Haxe syntax


Haxe is a very easy language to learn, so we'll be go over the basic syntax now and build on what we know as the book progresses.

At its core, Haxe contains all of the same things you find in other languages: variables, data types, data structures, access modifiers, functions (also known as methods), and expressions.

Haxe is also an object-oriented language, so you will see classes, inheritance, and polymorphism.

Data types and structures

The basic data types in Haxe are Bool, Float, Int, and so on.

Those data types are considered basic because they are simple pieces of data that aren't represented by a class. There are many data types and structures that are important and are represented by a class. They are explained here.

Operators

Haxe has a number of operators that are used to perform math equations, concatenation, and comparison. Let's go over the most common ones.

Access modifiers

Variables, classes, and functions can all be given an access modifier to determine how they can...