Haxe Roundup 495

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

Community Updates

Haxe 4.0.0-rc.4 had been released!
Version 2.15.0 of the Haxe extension for Visual Studio Code is out, featuring improved conditional compilation support with Haxe 4.0.0-rc.4 among other things.
Setting Boundaries, Open Source, & Gamedev on Consoles by Lars Doucet.
Valve has hired Lars Doucet to remake his “Diving Bell” prototype for Steam Labs (there is short note about it in this Gamasutra article)! And yes, Steam Deep Dive is being made with Haxe.

A new video series by Lewis Lepton: Let’s Kode: KhappyBalt. You can find more details, links to the source code and a playable version over at the games itch.io page.
Add a video related to Haxe.

Shiro Games is recruiting for different roles to expand their studio and work on upcoming, exciting projects!
Mino Games (Montreal, Canada) is hiring Haxe developers to join their small group of passionate engineers and artists.
Tamar Curry has opened $50 bug bounty for improving TextField performance in OpenFL. Here is also related issue in the OpenFL repo.
A new job offer involving Haxe in Copenhagen at Laerdal Copenhagen.
Bounty (up to 250 US$) for finishing the implementation UWP (WINRT) using ANGLE (in Lime).
Lars Doucet’s list of various open bounties.
Add an available job involving Haxe.

The HTML5 version of Unicycle Hero (a game by Unept made with Stencyl) is now available!
Wilmot’s Warehouse came out on Steam. It’s a puzzle game which was a finalist for “Excellence in Design” at the 2018 Independent Games Festival Awards and it’s made with OpenFL.

Threading macro like Clojure and pipe operator article.
Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Pixi version 4.8.8 has been released.
Matthijs Kamstra updated his creativecode library and now you can generate the basic papertoy shapes with code. For now you can preview it online.
flite by Dan Korostelev’s is a fork of OpenFL which will work with Kha (WIP currently).
Lubos is working on ray-traced baking in ArmorPaint, which will handle AO and cavity maps initially (plus existing baking features).
Fun with terrain in ArmorPaint by Lubos.
Progress on the Medieval Fantasy City Generator 0.7.2 by Oleg Dolya.
Revisiting the idea of curved alleys by Oleg Dolya.
Urjasvi Suthar is working on tutorials for Armory3D, and he would love to get all types of feedbacks! Checkout the GitHub repo for tutorials and you can also vote for the next tutorials!

Introducing the first of the Revenants in Darksburg. Meet the Brute!
Hello Lightbulb has added sneaky pixel snake in Scales: A Pangolin Story.
3 of 4 new enemies introduced in Heck Deck by Torcado.
Chompies in Renaine attack enemies only when you do.
Brad Gill’s craftables tool for Don’t Starve Together uses Logipar library.
A screenshot (via Haxe Discord) from a WIP game being made with Heaps by ratrogue.
Using macros to parse and insert a level as an array preview from Jeremy Meltingtallow.

Robert Konrad, the Kha author, is creating Programming Toolkits.
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 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.
Lewis Lepton is creating tutorials, code and videos.
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.

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