Haxe Roundup 605

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 Evolution meeting 2021 proposal verdict article by Aurel Bílý. ️
• HaxeJam 2021: Winter Edition by logo4poop. ️
• Haxe Godot externs updated for Godot 3.4.
• Neighbourhood Generator by Oleg Dolya.
• Promising project for Haxe to Flutter.

Videos & Music

• Wartales: Early Access Announcement Trailer.
• Check player offscreen Armory3D tutorial by Willbot Studio.
• Collision layers and masks, Armory3D 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

• AS3 to JavaScript (React) via Haxe job offers.
• 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

• Next update for Nuclear Blaze by Sébastien Bénard will feature a NewGame+ mode. It will affect all levels a LOT, adding new threats, areas and items.
• Wartales by Shiro Games is coming to Steam Early Access on the 1st of December.
• Kyatt7 has released a magical new Fiscal Jesters update which features a new character The Bog Jester and a new currency Tarot Coins.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Justin has added ‘basic’ hxDaedalus WebGL example using cornerContour.
• Justin has added ttf load and render of font contours in cornerContour on WebGL using Haxe: demo and source code available from GitHub.
• The actions package by tong for building Armory3D projects in GitHub workflows is now available on the marketplace.

Git Repos

• blastactic git - Cross-platform 2D physics-based puzzle game using Nape physics engine, written in Haxe.
• tweener git - A class for creating tweens in Haxe - because there’s infinity between 0 and 1.
• zenflo git - Flow Based Programming Kit.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• CRT shader for Go! Go! PogoGirl.
• Winter has come to Go! Go! PogoGirl’s island.
• We have LORE in Addlemoth by mauve.
• Demo’s JP translation is moving along.
• Tyler’s first custom shader with palette quantization/posterization.
• Shamanic mandala in Kanyon Karver represents the score multiplier buff and the elation that one gets from a successful ride.
• Super Cosmic Heist - World 5-4 WIP by Fierce.
• Have you ever been picked on? by Fraymakers.
• Professor at the Universitat de Barcelona who uses RPG Playground in his Masters degree class.
• ddmills has made a little progress: brightened up the color palette, started adding crew members and a map.
• Will you be brave enough to face the Ghost Pack in Wartales?
• Here is some advance in the map generation for sandbox scenario in Energy Island Corp by SpirkopGames.
• A perfectly looping gif from Renaine.
• New characters in Dead Cells:
  • Juan, the half-Luchador half-chicken.
  • Skul: The Hero Slayer.
  • The Penitent from Blasphemous.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Skyfire2008 has added a new enemy and showed screenshot of a custom self-made editor.
• Will Blanton has shared mockup and progress of a turnbased stealth marble deckbuilder.

HaxeJam 2021 “Overlords”

• Get ready for the next HaxeJam 2021: Winter Edition! ️

• 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.

Some Library Releases

• polymod 1.3.0
• hxp 1.2.2
• grig.midi 0.0.8
• electron 16.0.0
• tweener 1.33.74
• which 3.0.1
• collections 0.0.2
• nwjs 1.2.1
• lcov 2.0.1
• free_mobile 1.0.1
• godot 3.4.1
• bootstrap_bundle 1.2.1
• akismet 1.0.2
• json2object 3.10.0
• 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.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

• Add a type for meaningless values (similar to unit type) proposal.
• Add better Overload Support proposal.
• Add Static Extension Meta Functions proposal.
• Add enum abstract over enum proposal, plus clarification.
• Add Enum abstract instances proposal.
• [RFC] Xml Dsl’s discussion.
• Add Default values for enum parameters.
• Do you have an idea to improve Haxe? Consider creating a proposal.

Core Changes

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

• ...rest arguments is not perfect issue.
• [js] Implement js.lib.WeakRef merged.
• [hxcpp] Reading from stdout of a process can hang on Windows issue.
• [haxelib] Library name capitalisation issues.
• [hashlink] Build a library usable for embedding & FFI pull request.
• [hashlink] Phantom fields appear in typedef argument in 64-bit Hashlink closed.
• [hashlink] Implement profiler for Linux merged.
• The following proposals have been accepted.
  • Add haxe.Int64 Numeric Literal Suffix proposal.
  • Add Number Separator proposal.
  • Add Safe navigation operator proposal.
  • Add Null coalescing operator proposal.
  • Add local static proposal.
  • Add support for Self access for abstracts proposal.
  • Add support for default type parameters proposal.