Haxe Roundup № 456

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

Community Updates

ArmorPaint gets it’s biggest update yet, 0.5 is now live.
The Joy of Haxe - FontStruct’s love affair with a neglected programming language.
Lars Doucet had upped the bounty again for creating a common Haxe native extension method/format that bridges both HXCPP and HashLink.
Haxe benchmarks site by Kevin Leung, which covers a range operations across all compiler targets.
DeadCells made with Haxe, hanging out next to Diablo 3 and Skyrim.
DeadCells has been nominated for Best Indie Game and Best Acton Game at this years The Game Awards.
Cheap Golf creator Pixeljam gives shout outs to devs who helped make it.
Super Cute Alien won 3rd Place on Potenciate contest!

Show your interest in attending the Bavarian Haxe Meetup taking place on the 28th November!
The next Haxe Summit in Seattle is scheduled for 8th-10th May 2019.
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 $250 is if you can come up with a nice way to unify HXCPP and HashLink C bindings.
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.

Defender’s Quest 2 alpha is now available for testers and backers.
Gheap Golf has been released on Steam & Itch.io.
The stepbystep game has been completed and will be available on November 22nd on Steam.

[tink_http] Cross-platform HTTP fetch example.
Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

SlavaRa continues his work on improving Haxe syntax highlighting for HaxeDevelop. This week he added autocompletion for private fields accessed with @:privateAccess meta.
Nanjizal’s experiment with FastMatrix3 interpolation in Kha.
Oleg Dolya continues his work on Medieval Fantasy City Generator. This week he added:
- Floor plans generation and uploaded a new version to itch.io.
- He’s also working on improvements for the city’s “Blocks view” in city generator.
The first screenshot and the first view of the dialogue system of Acid’s opensource rpg project named Elysia.
Jeremy Meltingtallow is working on aseprite parser.
Tong has created a web client for Crazyflie - an open source flying development platform based on a nano quadcopter.
Sidar Talei created a few transition screen effects in Kha.
Nanjizal have created a Kha WebGL version of his Zeal of Zebra canvas experiment. ‏

City 13 out of 15 campaign levels of “Castle Woodwarf 2” are finished.
This is fine.
Anniversary update for Fidel Dungeon Rescue.
Ben Simms testing a casual game he is working on.
Eiyeron’s tests of collision mesh generation in Heaps.
Bonk animation from Chibi Ninja Shino-kun game.
In Renaine blocked attacks now have their own animations.
Terry Cavanagh has added a preview for enemy moves in Dicey Dungeons.
Animations, pathfinding and tile movement smoothing demonstration from Caribou’s game that is being made with Heaps, plus he cleaned up map.
Kirill Poletaev’s weekly progress on his puzzle game and showing off the UI for the journal system.
Ed Ryzhov shared a few screenshots from his in-progress racing game. This week he has worked on procedural grass generation around racing tracks: Pic 1, Pic 2 and Pic 3.
Kevin Purcell continues work on puzzle game he is making with HaxeFlixel.

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.

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

Add custom iterator benchmarks pull request.
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!