Haxe Roundup 690

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/inprogress] The weeklong HaxeJam 2023: Summer Jam is in-progress with the theme Split and ends on August 13th hosted by Logo. Remember to join the Discord event.
• Armory 3D 2023.08 release notes via RPaladin.
• “Papers, Please” is 10 years old! Also, LCD, Please, a “Papers, Please” de-make no one asked for by Lucas Pope.
• George Harpwood has released AseFlixel, the ultimate Aseprite Animation Code Exporter for HaxeFlixel.
• Removing function call in native python code question.
• Hey, it’s the 5th Anniversary of Dead Cells 1.0 launch this week!
• Kid Bubblegum is gonna be playable at Sonic Amateur Games Expo 2023 this year.
• [devlog] Northgard: The Summer Update is coming!
• [devlog] Dune: Spice Wars | August Development Update.
• [devlog] Minicology BETA 0.11: Filament Rig, new weapons, new armors post.
• [devlog] Fraymakers Update v0.5.13 - Quality of Life Updates and Bug Fixes post.
• 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

• Short video demonstrating Crowd Control in action.
• Kid Bubblegum YouTube shorts:
  • Rotating Platforms.
  • Separated at birth?
  • Sewer Wallumps.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Available for work

• You can hire Tim I Hely, a highly experienced HaxeFlixel developer!
• Alex Johansson is looking for a part time/contractor role.
• Rudy Geslin is available for freelance work.

Job listings

• None.

Bounties

• Armory3D bounties are available.
• Keep an eye on the Funkin Bounties repo for future items.
• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.

Product Releases

• None this week.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Showcase

• HaxeFlixel messin with shaders. 🔦
• Axol Studio has updated the documentation for hx-crowdcontrol git. Also check out the announcement post over on Haxe Discord, plus a few more details from Tim I Hely.
• New streets: less visible mesh cells, nicer looking outskirts by Oleg Dolya.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• MasterIO has recently released streamscope git, a software to automate the recording of Twitch streams in real-time for archival purposes.
• Copper_MC git is a server software for Minecraft Bedrock Edition by TheUnderName.

Git Repos

• MxOS git - MxOS is an operating system made for ComputerCraft using Haxe.
• character-template git - Fraymakers Character Template source code.
• stage-template git - Fraymakers Stage Template source code.
• assit-template git - Fraymakers Assist Template source code.
• leaflethx git - Haxe externs for LeafletJS 1.9.4 generated with dts2hx.
• Major rework into v2 for hxdefold by Haath, draft pull request.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Guess it now feels more like some dark alley in Tenjutsu+ by Sébastien Benard. What do you think?
• Fully migrate Crop Rotation’s UI from the old to the new by ZwodahS.
• Each stage in Animal Arena has it’s own mechanics. For example, the Factory level features platforms that move vertically.
• Player_03 daily updates on getting Runaway compiling and working.
• Ando has updated Kid Bubblegum’s Steam page with new art assets and screenshots.
• The latest previews from Renaine:
  • Three hit combo! kinda
  • Yea man, preach.
  • Out of context Renaine combat.
  • A little help here?
• Mini HaxeFlixel custom intro roundup:
  • Part 1 of a custom logo for the game by coolguy simulator.
  • A custom intro by Doodslr.
  • Coolest custom intro in the wild wild west by Mr0uterverse.
  • Custom splash screen.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Rarusel is trying to replicate MegaMan Battle Network in Haxe.
• Kid Bubblegum showcase:
  • Doing some smaller tasks to get back into the swing of things. Bombs now have an area of effect and also hit enemies
  • Made some tunes for the casino stage!

Some Library Releases

• flixel-demos 3.0.0
• tink_domspec 0.4.4
• hx-crowdscontrol 1.2.0
• SScript 4.1.0
• 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

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

• No completion for @:forwardStatics with typedef issue.