Haxe Roundup 508

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

Community Updates

Cagette.net are looking for a Haxe developer to join them!
Poptropica are in need of a developer to Integrate GAF into OpenFL.
Shiro Games is recruiting for different roles to expand their studio and work on upcoming, exciting projects!
Tamar Curry has opened $50 bug bounty for improving TextField performance in OpenFL. Here is also related issue in the OpenFL repo.
Bounty (up to 250 US$) for finishing the implementation UWP (WINRT) using ANGLE (in Lime).
Lars Doucet’s list of various open bounties.
Add an available job involving Haxe.

Lubos Lenco has released 2019.12 updates for Armory3D and ArmorPaint.
Block Toggle, a new puzzle platformer from Robert Alvarez, made with Stencyl, has been published on itch.io and Newgrounds.
Medieval Fantasy City Generator update 0.7.3 by Oleg Dolya.
“NGN: Neo Gaijin Ninjō” is a Turn Based Card RPG in a futuristic cyberpunk world and it’s being made in Stencyl.
Spirkop Games announced Electric City Manager 2. It is being made with Haxe and Phaser. They usually stream a development session every Wednesday between 3PM and 5PM at twitch.tv. Check out this weeks stream recording.
The Darksburg Closed Beta has begun!
The Bad Seed DLC is the next major content addition to Dead Cells. Coming Q1 2020 on PC & consoles.

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

The “Haxe Lib Manager” by Ian Harrigan now supports “working sets” and shows GIT history when creating releases. Check out the short Twitter thread with some videos, screenshots and a couple of libraries.
OpenFL Starling 2.xx GAF Player has been released!
Austin East has added line casting to his physics library, echo, now at version 1.0.
Matthijs Kamstra latest creative coding project is to make a pattern for an all over jacket print, inspired by morse code. Also check out Pixels by chance! and Lines…
Holiday themed loading screen by George. You could see it in action in Christmas ADVENTure 2019. Also check out the source code which is available at GitHub.
If anyone is interested in Pixi.js 5 and Haxe, check out Mark Knol’s branch. Maybe it’s not fully complete, but it’s better than nothing.
Jens Fischer and Valentin Lemière are participating in Advent Of Code 2019.
bonfire git is a framework to create 2D top-down adventure games, JRPG games, and more. But currently it is in the earliest stages of development.
tube-engine-shell git demonstrates a pattern for structuring Heaps projects and Haxe projects in general.
argparse git is an argument parser library for Haxe.

Syo’s laser beam WIP preview.
Hello Lightbulb have recently added termite hills and new areas to Pangolin levels, as well as a pesky toucan.
Ben Simms has started building a new version of his old game for the “banana” phone, aka Nokia 8110.
Don’t hit the walls! in the WIP Kha mobile game by Juriën Meerlo.
Two short Twitter devlogs from Alex Johansson: 1st of December and 2nd of December.

[callfunc] The foreign function interface library for Haxe, callfunc git using libffi has improved its docs, explaining variadic functions, numeric parameters and had a API overhaul.

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.
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.

Fixed size Array map idea.
[js] Use Abstract’s own type path for generating its implementation class merged.
[WIP] SSL support for eval target pull request.
[asys] Make haxe.Error generic merged into [feature/asys].
[asys] Change NoData internal type pull request.