Haxe Roundup 603

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

Community Updates

News and Articles

• Haxe 4.2.4 has been officially released!
• HaxeIn 2021 powered by InnoGames - Winter Edition announcement by Josefiene.
• Feathers UI beta.7 preview build on HaxeLib article by Josh Tynjala.
• Octodad for Early Access! 🐙OCTOTOBER🐙 - October 2021 Fraymakers Roundup.
• 🏠Village Generator 1.2.7: improved fields and roads article by Oleg Dolya.
• Kenny Golf wrote up Devtober 2021 Postmortem about porting Double Turn to Switch. ️

Videos & Music

• How Dead Cells & Little Kids Sparked Nuclear Blaze video game review and interview with Sébastien Bénard.️
• Introduction to HaxeFlixel Part 35 - Rage Quitting Intensifies by Questionable Programming.
• Input nodes EXPLAINED - Armory 3D - beginner tutorial by Willbot Studio.
• Action nodes EXPLAINED - Armory 3D - beginner tutorial by Willbot Studio.
• Logic and conditions EXPLAINED - Armory 3D - beginner tutorial by Willbot Studio.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Looking for work

• Rudy Geslin is looking for full-time remote work.
• Peter Achberger is available for freelance work.
• Andreas Drewke is looking for a freelancer job or part time job.

Job listings

• Little team is looking for a Haxe developer to work on HTML5 games.
• Nexters (Moscow, Russia) are looking for a Haxe developer to work on Hero Wars.
• Nevosoft (Saint Petersburg, Russia) are looking for a Haxe developer to work on their mobile game Charm Farm.
• Nexters (Moscow, Russia) are looking for a Haxe developer to work on the web-version of their project Throne Rush.
• Shiro Games are looking for a Senior Game Programmer.
• The team behind Forge of Empires at InnoGames is looking for a Haxe developer, feel free to contact Dan Korostelev in case of any questions! More info can be found at the company’s website. ️

Bounties

• Basic Platformer Pathfinding AI for HaxeFlixel $150 bounty.
• FlxG.collide with simple object “mass” for HaxeFlixel $100 bounty.
• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.

Product Releases & Announcements

• Bad Soccer Manager is out now, created by Jano Games using Stencyl. Available from the app store.
• Jefvel has released Grandpa’s Minigun onto Newgrounds, in which “you can shoot stuff extremely hard”.
• Tom Thirkettle has released SUPER SCARY MONSTER ROAD, out now on iOS, made with Stencyl.
• Robert Alvarez has released CCMMYY on Itch and NewGrounds.
• HxFloppyBird is the 9th of 10 simple game prototypes made by George Harpwood.

Previews & Demos

HaxeJam 2021 “Overlords”

• Harold Swore An Oath by Nathm8, source available on GitHub.
• Distactia by Kino Rose, source code available on GitHub.
• Dice Kingdom by ZwodahS, source available on GitLab.
• Put a Flag on It! by Drewby and Sparkhur, source available on GitHub.
• Git Gold by John Doughty, source available on GitHub.
• Dash OVERLORD by Bogdan2D, source available on GitHub.
• Battle of the Overlords by Serius Games, source available on GitHub.
• OverloadS by GoKritz, source available on GitHub.
• Haxe Jam by CerealBuffer, source available on GitHub.

Open Source

Community Previews

• Go a little crazy with composite menus in HaxeUI by Ian Harrigan.
• Justin has added ellipse cap endings to cornerContour.
• Nikolay has prepared Kanyon Karver presskit page.
• Questions about Star, an experimental programming language that’s made to be powerful, productive and predictable.

Git Repos

• Feathers UI v1.0.0-beta.7 for Haxe and OpenFL pre-release.
• TyD.hx git - A simple Haxe implementation of TyD - Tynan’s Tiny Data Language.
• wash git - Watch Application System in Haxe. ️
• hxDIF git - A Torque Dif parsing library written in Haxe so nobody has to ever write a Dif parser in different languages.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• This years Halloween card from the cast of Rogue of Vallas by Merrak.
• Super Cosmic Heist - World 5-3 WIP by Fierce, made in Stencyl.
• Techy Wrinkles is testing out level 2 of their shmup boss shooting patterns.
• "Exploring the unknown, what riches and horrors lie ahead?" by ddmills.
• Squuuidly has worked on Renaine’s Companion and cutscenes this week.
• Looks like Addlemoth demo could be released this month.
• Mauve had no idea how this bug manifested in the slightest. But it turned out to be three separate bugs in a trenchcoat.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Will Blanton is working on a hf splash screen.
• Skyfire2008 is working on a new game for Devtober.
• Naoya has shared video from WIP platformer game.

LD49 “Unstable”

• Clable by Andrei Rudenko using Kha.
• Doctor Concoctor: Bullet-helly roguelite twinstick shooter by Aurel.
• GUNSTABLE by torcado. Made with OpenFL.
• Jérémy Fa’s entry - It will Fall. Made with Ceramic engine.
• Jefvel’s entry - Horse with a Human Mask On a Tightrope.
• 鬼心伝 - A Story of Heartful Oni is another one Ludum Dare 49 entry made with Haxe by group of Christopher Ortiz, Chris, Frroyo, Merenge and Juneji.
• ZwodahS’s entry - Unstable OS.
• Aeveis’s entry - Okay & Alright. Made with HaxeFlixel.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, Viole(n)t Cooking made with Heaps. via Yanrishatum.
• Structure Rescue by GlacierEclipse made with HaxePunk.
• Pocobot’s Obligation made with OpenFL.
• A Crumbly Planet by Kumber using HaxeFlixel.
• The Pearl Thief by Furfel using HaxeFlixel.
• Submit your LD49 entry built with Haxe.

Some Library Releases

• morsecodeLib 1.0.0
• feathersui 1.0.0-beta.7
• bootstrap_bundle 1.2.0
• coconut.vdom 0.10.1
• csss 0.7.0
• no-vdom 0.7.0
• free_mobile 1.0.0
• re-flex 0.0.0
• Check out the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

People & Projects to support

• Funkin’ Crew is making Friday Night Funkin’, a cartoon rhythm gaming excellence
• Patrick is creating Raspberry Pi 4 support for Haxe/Lime/OpenFL/HaxeFlixel.
• Josh Tynjala is working on Feathers UI — open source, cross-platform UI components built with OpenFL.
• Pavel Alexandrov is primarily contributing to the Heaps engine and is the creator of format-tiled library.
• Ian Harrigan is working on primarily HaxeUI, as well as hxArduino & hxWebSockets.
• Kaelan Evans is working on HxDoom, a Haxe adaption of Doom.
• Richard Oliver Bray is teaching people the things he’s learnt, like React, Typescript and Haxe.
• 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.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

• Add better Overload Support proposal.
• Add haxe.Int64 Numeric Literal Suffix proposal. ️
• Add Static Extension Meta Functions proposal.
• Add Number Separator proposal.
• Add Safe navigation operator proposal.
• Add Destructor proposal.
• Add enum abstract over enum proposal, plus clarification…
• Add Enum abstract instances proposal.
• Add Null coalescing operator proposal.
• Add local static proposal.
• Allow enums to opt-out of publishing their constructors in the implicit global scope proposal.
• Add destructive assignments proposal.
• Add Matcher: setting variables and guard as expression in a pattern proposal.
• Add Single pattern check proposal.
• Add Shorthand nullable-type syntax proposal.
• Add support for on site getters & setters proposal.
• Add support for Self access for abstracts proposal.
• [RFC] Xml Dsl’s discussion.
• Add support for default type parameters proposal.
• Add polymorphic this types proposal.
• Add Default values for enum parameters.
• Do you have an idea to improve Haxe? Consider creating a proposal.

Core Changes

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

• [java/jvm] Respect interface methods with Code attributes pull request.
• Allow & Dynamic<T> pull request.