Haxe Roundup 518

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

Community Updates

Armory3D has been awarded an Epic MegaGrant.
What is a token tree?
TalosFray has published a new devlog: “Database migration and back-end updates”.
A quick guide to installing Haxe and Heaps by Sébastien Bénard.
Any Haxe devs willing to meetup in Seattle?
Narenjo Games have updated a bunch of OpenFL extensions for mobile.
Feathers UI devlog: TextArea and GridView.
Fedellen latest weekly devlog `#16: rainbow unicorn magic.
Alexander Gordeyko has created page on Patreon. He is actively developing Pony which is Haxe open-cross-library.
Will Haxe ever have Rust as a target?

Cory Martin will be showing his game Leapin Lads at The Game Dev House Party which is a funny coincidence as it happens to be on Leap Day.
Osaka Red LLC are co-hosting a HaxeUp with CrashSpace taking place on April 6th in California.
EU Haxe Summit 2020 - Let’s meet in Linz.
Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

New bounty by Kaleido Games: Bounty to make OpenFL work with (FNA/UWP).
NX Studio (Moscow, Russia) are looking for a Haxe programmer to work on their game called “Throne Rush”.
Shiro Games are recruiting for different roles to expand their studio and work on upcoming, exciting projects!
Lars Doucet’s list of various open bounties.
Add an available job involving Haxe.

Gauthier has submitted their 2047 bytes game to #2kplus jam! Available now on itch.io.
Elite Frog, a semi joke game made by koko back in 2015 has been released, made with Stencyl.
What global warming?! A game for #alakajam by Aurel.
Version 1.7.0 of Steel Seraph is available on Windows and Linux, across GameJolt, itch.io and Steam.

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

Ian Harrigan has been working on a revamped style system for HaxeUI 1.1, which among other things, supports multistep gradients and better animations!
Preview of Nanjizal WebGL texturing shapes with their lib trilateral, coming soon to trilateral2.
Kaelan previews HxDoom using Lime’s WebGL exposure.
Tong has released source code for Heaps + ammo.js demo from previous roundup. Plus there is also source code for a Haxe bullet version available.
Matthijs Kamstra has published another music visualisation: storm the line, beats not included! Also he has added Polygon drawing for canvas and SVG renderers to his creative coding library.
Enum Extractor provides syntax sugar to access Enum value for one pattern and do nothing for other patterns.
GMVitalizer by Vadim Dyachenko is a tool that converts GMS2 projects to GMS1.

Rework the title screen of Kelin Kelilin.
A little portal animation for game by Pirhana.
Proof of concept for a future game by Luyren.
New logo and results screen from StarBurst game by Ben Simms.
Fedellen previews more pixel art animations for their game. Made with Stencyl.
SUPER Cute Alien has a Steam version in the work. And are looking for Remote Play testers! Check out their Steam page.
Alex Johansson has updated his chess game with a fresh spawning system that coughs out some killer pawn combos! ♟ Made with Stencyl. Plus check out the Kill the King video.
Cory Martin has been redesigning the level gen system and refactoring a bunch of code in Leapin Lads.
Fantomon has created a project on CrowdForge if you want to help create a tamagotchi-like, for fun, on your spare time game.
A few updates from Aditya Chaudhary’s WIP game, made with Stencyl:
- Added stars to collect and ice platforms.
- This is what happens when you type 80m/s instead of 8m/s.
- Game mechanics are almost done.
A couple of quick videos from WIP Stencyl game by Robert Alvarez:
- Negative pickups decrease stats.
- Star pickup can destroy any enemy.
A couple of screenshots from WIP turn based puzzle game by mauve:
- Options menu.
- Doing some UI upgrade mockups.

Alexander Gordeyko is developing Pony, a Haxe open-cross-library.
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.

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