Haxe Roundup 683

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

• [events/upcoming] The next Haxe Roundup Roundup Discord event is scheduled for July 2nd.
• Defender’s Quest 2’s Free Demo is Live now on Steam announcement article. Check out the Twitter 🧵 for pretty pictures.
• Announcing Crop Rotation for Dice Tribes Ambitions article.
• [devlog] Flipping Finces prototype Ludum Dare 53 article.
• [devlog] Wartales Community Update #1 Out Now!
• Logo has been working on a list of people in the Haxe community on open platforms such as Mastodon.
• Haxe.Social is a new unofficial Akkoma instance for Haxe developers and projects.

Videos & Music

• None this week.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Looking for work

• Alex Johansson is looking for a part time/contractor role.
• Rudy Geslin is available for freelance work.

Job listings

• Backend Haxe devs wanted to make PVP deltarune fangame listing.
• Ysbryd Games is looking for HaxePunk porters for a potential future title.
• Sean James McKenzie of Armor Games Studios is looking for a team experienced in porting Haxe games to console.

Bounties

• Armory3D bounties are available.
• Keep an eye on the Funkin Bounties repo for future items.
• Basic Platformer Pathfinding AI for HaxeFlixel $150 bounty.
• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.

Product Releases

• Juriën Meerlo has submitted Gravity Golfing to the app store for review.
• Clyde has released the demo for Into the Necrovale onto Steam.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Showcase

• George Harpwood has completed his challenge of making 10 game prototypes in HaxeFlixel. Follow the 🧵 to learn about each game and play each in the browser.
• 3DSHaxe git - Make 3DS homebrew with the Haxe programming language! ️ There is also a 3DS Discord Project you can follow.

Git Repos

• IntelliJ Haxe plugin 1.4.0 release candidate has been released.
• hd-idl git - Hashlink and JS Haxe support for WebIDL. Modified for cross platform support.
• FlxSprite-Inspector git - FlxSprite Inspector is a lightweight and efficient tool designed for sprite inspection in HaxeFlixel games.
• sillysharp git - An unconventional Haxe➜C# compiler.
• filestat git - Lightweight application for collecting statistics on projects…s
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Custom HaxeFlixel splash screen by FunkyBirds.
• Jérémy Fa is working on a early development WIP lighting implementation.
• Eric accidentally made the gameover screen cover the cards in the Steam demo for Crop Rotation.
• Andrej shares more gameplay from Kid Bubblegum this time from the sewer…
• Andrej is also working on an alternative tileset for Kid Bubblegum.
• Joel is back to working full time on their action-DRPG.
• SomeRanDev has got tilemap layering down to simulate pseudo-3D for their GBA game. Which “was CRAZY impossible because the GBA only allows 4 background layers, so had to automate + optimize tilemaps to conform to this. Was not fun. Also fixed like 20 collision bugs”.
• This isn’t the Father’s Day Octodad deserves in Fraymakers.
• Aight imma head out 🚪⬅️🐦via Squidly.
• Attack animation from Dune Spice Wars.
• Peter Wartman shows off their UI framework they’ve built over the years.

Some Library Releases

• SScript 3.0.1
• hxCodec 3.0.1
• extension-admob 2.1.1
• colyseus 0.15.2
• logipar 0.6.0
• electron 25.1.1
• Check out the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

People & Projects to support

• Axol Studio is a small independent game development studio, making games with and contributing to HaxeFlixel.
• 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.
• 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.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

• Add support for Typed metadata proposal.
• Add support for Extension of Abstracts proposal.
• Add Shading proposal with alt macro solution.
• Add package alias proposal.
• Add Integer data types proposal.
• Add Trailing Block Expressions proposal.
• Add Caller Tracking proposal.
• Add Traits proposal.
• Add Constructor this.arg syntax proposal.
• Add new syntax for getters & setters inspired by the C# property syntax proposal.
• Add a type for meaningless values (similar to unit type) proposal.
• Add better Overload Support proposal.
• Add Static Extension Meta Functions proposal.
• Add enum abstract over enum proposal, plus clarification.
• Add Enum abstract instances proposal.
• [RFC] Xml Dsl’s discussion.
• Add Default values for enum parameters.
• Do you have an idea to improve Haxe? Consider creating a proposal.

Core Changes

10~ updates have been made to Haxe in the last week.

• Make genhl respect Meta.NoExpr pull request.