Haxe Game Development Essentials

Chapter 2. Building a New Game

In this chapter, we're going to start building our game. We'll start by exploring some of the fundamental Haxe syntaxes that we'll be using. After this, we'll make a new HaxeFlixel project, make a few changes, and work on getting some simple gameplay in place that will serve as the base to build on.

Here's a rundown of the sections in this chapter:

• The Haxe syntax
• Setting up a new HaxeFlixel project
• Adding the background and basic UI
• Making enemies
• Instantiating enemies and adding interaction
• Creating the end screen
• Restarting the level
• Implementing the game timer

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 ...