Haxe Roundup 534

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

Community Updates

FeathersUI Devlog #21: CLI create-projects, the VSCode extension, and preparing for alpha.2.
Andrej has started a devlog for his platformer game Go! Go! PogoGirl! The first post is now up!
Check out the recent CrossCode AMA over on /r/nintendo.

Check out Richard Oliver Bray’s latest YouTube tutorial "Public, Static and Private methods in Haxe".
A water demo (Haxe + Heaps) video by Edwin Syarief.
Add a video related to Haxe.

HaxeIn 2020 virtual Haxe Summit on October 14-17th 2020.
- With Matthijs Kamstra and Lewis Lepton planning on submitting talk proposals.
Add an upcoming event about Haxe.

Spellbreak by Proletariat Inc. is coming to the Xbox and Switch!
The Renaine Demo is LIVE on the Steam Games Festival, June 16th - 22nd!
SUPER Cute Alien is featured in the Platformers category on Steam Games Festival. Play the limited demo.
Vadim Dyachenko has released a little companion tool that lets you convert a BitFontMaker2 font for use with Pixel Font Converter.

Chapter-2 of Kha’s MC tutorial on terrain generation by Urjasvi Suthar.
Have an example you want to add? Consider contributing to the code.haxe.org cookbook.

Michael Miriti has released OpenFL Raycasting git “Basic Grid-Based Ray Casting with Haxe and OpenFL”.
Vadim Dyachenko has released a set of 3 map-like implementations for GameMaker Studio 2.3.
With the release of hashlink-debugger 1.1.0 to the VSCode marketplace, debugging Lime projects now works out of the box! via HaxeFlixel.
Away3D with OimoPhysics demo by Krtolica Vujadin.
Jens Fischer is working on HXML completion tool for VSCode.
Joaquin Bello is working on a small FPS. An example to introduce 3D concepts (projection, shaders, 3D transforms, zbuffer). And he is planning to make code available at some time.
JavaScript Mini Projects by Matthijs Kamstra.
TrilateralSamples and hxSpiro2020 (a haxe port of Spiro git library) by Nanjizal.
HxWren git by 'Damilare Darmie Akinlaja is a Haxe implementation of the Wren scripting language virtual machine.
coconut.json git - Serialize coconut models with tink_json.
Sébastien Bénard has started creating a generic 2D level editor. Some intended features of the editor:
- Tile layers, IntGrid layers and fully customizable entities.
- Strong focus on making something simple, easy to use and lightweight
- Open Source.
- Check out the screen shots of the Mob editor and Project Entities.

Combat balance update and a new Versus match type called Scramble for Double Turn.
Gregory Seed is working on Android port of LITTLE SQUARE THINGS. And you can sign up for the open beta.
New visual style for the Village Generator by Oleg Dolya.
It’s decision time! Left or right? by Pizza.
Missile alert by 𝙵𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚙𝚙𝚘 𝙱𝚘𝚍𝚎𝚒.
ArmorPaint running on iPadOS. Powered by Metal at 120fps with Apple Pencil support.
100% Golf by Alex Johansson got a USA number 2 listing on “New Games We Love”. Here are some map doodles for the game.
Torcado has implemented a new shop system in Heck Deck, allowing you to sell and trade cards for health.
A bunch of bouncy blocks from WIP platformer game by Robert Alvarez.
Skyfire2008 from Haxe discrord server has released a demo of Spork Asteroids. Everything is WIP, even the player ship has 1000 lives for the purpose of testing.
Couple of quick videos by Geokureli:
- 2P custom input UI.
- Straight up stealing UI juice effects.

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.
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.

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

Rewrite the JAR loader pull request.
@:forward-ed abstract fields prevent object inlining issue.
@:structInit creates non exist but typeable constructor issue.
Forwarded abstract fields are not available through a constrained type parameter issue.
Exhaustive matching for enum abstract null value issue.
[ide] Everything is red if a single struct in an array is missing a field issue.
[macro] Meta for TypeParamDecl ignored during reification and printing fixed.
[jvm] OutOfMemoryError with ~/\b/g.split() issue.
[js] Improve generation of dynamic methods to avoid unnecessary $bind issue.
Add method inlining to inline constructors filter pull request.