Haxe Roundup № 454

Welcome to the latest edition of the Haxe Roundup. Haxe is a high level, strictly typed programming language and cross-compiler.

Community Updates

The Joy of Haxe - FontStruct’s love affair with a neglected programming language.
Super Cute Alien won 3rd Place on Potenciate contest!
HashLink 1.8 has been released. Fixes a bug with Haxe 4.0.0-preview.5 and a few additional improvements.
The Haxe Foundation have released Haxe 4.0.0-preview.5!
The next Haxe Summit in Seattle is scheduled for 8th-10th May 2019.
Transcript of the Northgard AMA which was held on the 24th of October is now avaialable.
HaxeFlixel discord server is now a general Haxe server. There are channels for every major game framework. And if you want to learn more about one of them, then just join!.
DeadCells might be comming to Android?

Show your interest in attending the Bavarian Haxe Meetup this November!
David Mouton will be talking at this years BDX.io about “Haxe 2018 : plus t’en mets plus t’en as”, in Bordeaux, 9th Novemeber 2018.
Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Shiro Games are looking for a Game Designer and a Senior Game Programmer to join them.
Sigma Software are looking for a Middle Haxe Developer to join them.
Lars Doucet’s latest bounty for $100 is if you can come up with a nice way to unify HXCPP and HashLink C bindings.
Binkies 3D are looking a Front-end Haxe Developer to join them.
Bradmax is looking for a Haxe developer to join them.
The HaxeFoundation are still looking for a compiler developer to join the team.
Lars Doucet’s list of various open bounties.
Add an available job involving Haxe.

An early test build of Defenders Quest 2 is getting ready to be distributed to bakers and testers.
Boomy Studios has released “I ate two eggs” onto Newgrounds.
Big Halloween update for OVERWHELM game made with OpenFL. Presenting NEW GAME+, better gamepad feel, and some fun shaders for new looks.

HaxeUp Sessions October 13th videos are available on YouTube as separate vids or you can binge watch the full length Twitch video.
Add a video related to Haxe.

[tink_http] Cross-platform HTTP fetch example.
Simple Heaps example showing 3D scene with 2D collisions.
Nicolas Cannasse has collected a set of Heaps full open source games examples.
Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

SlavaRa continues his work on improving HaxeDevelop:
- Code generation for class fields and properties.
- Hints for function parameters stored in array.
- Better doc hints.
- Improved interface code generation.
Jaime Domínguez finished implementing the Steam API for Haxe.
Adam Parrott added moving enemies to his 7DFPS game jam entry.

Charlie Riot is working on Mistriver Village for his game.
SHUMP a fun and juicy shoot em’ up platformer hybrid made with Stencyl is available on the App Store.
Ohsat games continues work on Chibi Ninja Shino-kun game and shows off the latest preview.
Critical Update for Renaine game: The tiny birds have regional variants.

Lubos & contributors are creating Armory, an open source 3D game engine in Blender.
OpenFL is creating free open source software.
HaxeUI is creating an open source user interface libraries.
HaxeFlixel is creating an open source, cross plaform 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.
Lewis Lepton is creating tutorials, code and videos.
Ilya Malanin is creating improvements for the Haxe IntelliJ IDEA plugin.
Eric Bishton is creating the Haxe plugin for IntelliJ IDEA.
Will Blanton is creating HaxeFlixel tutorials.
Matthew Wallace is creating Haxe By Example tutorials.
August Late is creating unique 2D lighting tech.

14~ commits have been made to Haxe compiler in the last week.

Add haxe.Log.debug pull request.
HTML Extern improvements merged.
Removing @:functionCode from the standard library “if we ever want to have a JVM target” comment.
Move JQuery and SWFObject to HaxeLib issue.
Add @:semantics to deal with native semantics merged.

You can get started using the latest features by downloading a nightly build of Haxe.

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!