Haxe Roundup 497

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

Community Updates

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Checkout Interactive fretboard 🎸 by Mark Knol! And read the Haxe community announcement for more info.
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.

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A quick look at a simple custom data format to make music definitions modular by Jeremy Meltingtallow.

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.

Dicey Dungeons v1.4 is now up on Steam. Checkout the full list of changes!
Spirkop Games have released Electric City Manager. It’s a HTML5 game made with Haxe, Phaser and the haxe-phaser3 library.
Dead Cells is Game of The Day in 132 countries on the App Store.

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Cheap Golf will be released on phones and tablets on October 17th.
Dead Cell v1.4 update, “Who’s the boss?”, is now live on PS4, Nintendo Switch and Xbox One!
SciAnts Evolved Steam store page has gone live, by Axol Studio.
Renegade Racing is finally in Android Early Access.

Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

GitLab have updated their version of rouge, meaning you now get Haxe syntax highlighting!
Ian Harrigan has added preliminary support for syntax highlighting in HaxeUI through monaco and scintilla!
Gauthier Billot has updated his Spritesheet Revivor tool with faster generation and pickable background.
Couple of previews of the plugin system in ArmorPaint by Lubos Lenco:
- ‘Procedural’ Commodore 64 material. An actual emulator compiled from C to WebAssembly, running in ArmorPaint.
- Texture Synthesis. Compiled from Rust -> WebAssembly -> ArmorPaint plugin.
Matthijs Kamstra is making papertoys with Haxe, SVG and his creative code library. Checkout a couple of his photos:
- Square papertoy
- A cone papertoy, generated with code

Some WIP visual improvements in the adventure game (it’s working name is “Croaking Hill”) by 1speed studio.
Welcome. Welcome to a brigther future in SUPER Cute Alien.
Couple of new GIFs from upcoming Renaine game by Octosoft:
- In the Eastwest Mountain there’s a creature called a Brappa.
- Aine in endless stunlock.
Shakesoda is working on his engine, which uses the HashLink target. They have shared new quick video and screenshot:
- Maps can load other model files at will now.
- Render system upgrade in progress.

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.

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

In case you missed it

Constrained Monomorphs public issue diary.
Closed Readable and Writable constraints proposal.
Accept the new Sys API’s proposal. Checkout the working draft of the new asys API.

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

Take it easy everyone and have a good week!