Haxe Roundup 693

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 Saturday 30th September 18:30.
• Haxe 4.3.2 has been uploaded to the PPA by Andy Li. ️
• Armory3D 2023.09 has been released! via RPaladin.
• 🏡Village Generator 1.5.2: improved rivers and bridges article by Oleg Dolya.
• ArmorPaint 0.9 has been shipped. Check Out a New Version of This Open-Source 3D Texturing Tool.
• 9 months+ of daily grind on Crop Rotation, its always fun to look back at my notes to see how much the game evolve. Will probably write a post mortem at some point.
• Releasing an OpenFL project on MacOS - code signing and notarization guide.
• Over of the Haxe Discord, Joshua Tynjala posted a few screenshots of Feathers UI for OpenFL compiled to SWF and running on Ruffle instead of Flash Player. Plus screenshots of NyanCat and PiratePig OpenFL samples running in Ruffle. ️

Devlogs

• Bring It On! 0.11.5 Released!
• Dune: Spice Wars - Early Access Recap.
• Dead Cells Update #35 alpha - New system for Cursed mobs i.e the Cursed Biome effect! And again! Plus patch notes.
• Wartales: Korean language now available!
• Wartales is available now on Nintendo Switch!
• Dune: Spice Wars 1.0 is available now!

Videos & Music

• Processing Textures in ArmorLab video.
• Dune: Spice Wars 1.0 trailer.
• Wartales Nintendo Switch Launch Trailer.
• Extracting PBR maps from a photo in ArmorLab.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, HxGodot & Steam Audio, first steps by Michael Bickel.
• Reminder that Squidly does a Haxe dev stream every weekday on Twitch. 6pm EST -> 12am EST Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday. 12pm EST -> 6pm EST Thursday/Friday.
• 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

• Crop Rotation has launched!
• Gogoprog #js13k entry made with Haxe is call Minipuyo.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, A fun lil drawing app made in HaxeFlixel by White Ninja.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Showcase

• OpenFL Library for stroked and outlined text announcement post.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Spitko has made CerastesTemplate git available. They don’t recommend anyone use it, but it could be a good starting point for your own stuff. An example of what you can do with it.
• HeapsIONewGameTemplate git is just a basic heaps.io template by Sabe aka sup0088.

Git Repos

• xml2object git - Type safe XML (de)serializer.
• couchdb.hx git - An Apache CouchDB client for Haxe.
• reflaxe_javasources git - A compiler that compiles Haxe code into javasources. ️
• ColorMatrixHx git - Utility to manipulate a ColorMatrix for use in a ColorMatrixFilter in Flash or OpenFL.
• epikowa_cli git - Cli command line parser.
• Godot Manager git is a tool to manage Godot versions on Linux. Made with Haxe.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• After two weeks of messing with shaders in Haxe/Kha, Cornell Daly finally has a lighting solution they are pleased with.
• Fraymakers hard at work finishing Fishbunjin’s sprites!
• The aliens seem to have put out digital wanted posters for Kid Bubblegum… probably for good reason.
• Andrei Apanasik is checking out Haxe as an option to port a plugin for their company’s product Balancy. And trying to use ChatGPT for it.
• Couple of quick video from Animal Arena by Jussi Simpanen:
  • The Desert stage features quicksand that slows down anyone who steps in it. Jump to get out!
  • Testing a button to let you pick a random animal from the ones you’ve unlocked instead of choosing one from a list.
• The latest GIFs from Renaine:
  • Your chance of being attacked by a gnome at any given time are low… but not zero.
  • Bonk!
  • A mid combo crouch attack is perfect for keeping your enemy stun-locked!
  • Lineria is made of many areas, that are all diverse and full of life!
  • Sometimes you just need a nice reading break 📚
  • Cool knights don’t look at explosions 😎
• New GIFs from Into the Necrovale by Casey Clyde:
  • New player and enemies in action.
  • Ice Master Crystal staff power move.
  • Bear hugs for all the skeletons.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Prexot is almost done with Chapter 1 of Rhythm Magus.
• Semmi wrote a little function-plotter.
• Eggu has made a game for history class about the Boston tea party.

Some Library Releases

• formula 0.4.3
• stroked-textfield 1.0.0
• react-beautiful-dnd 1.9.4
• dropecho.ds 1.8.0
• ColorMatrixHx 1.0.0
• SScript 5.2.0
• bootstrap_bundle 2.3.0
• hxsdl 0.1.2
• hxal 1.0.1
• hxdr_wav 0.1.0
• hxstb_vorbis 0.1.0
• mc2it_theme 5.4.2
• 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

44~ updates have been made to Haxe in the last two weeks.

• Default constructors question?
• sys.FileStat.ctime is not accurate on Linux/macOS issue.
• Map abstract breaks compilation server DCE issue.
• [server] Add support for ipv6 addresses for --wait/--connect merged.
• [hl] “output_value: functional value” when using hl.Ref<String> in hl/c issue.
• CLI Sys.getChar doesn’t work on OSX issue.
• Remove hard references from if_features pull request.