Haxe Roundup 606

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

• The Skeeball Game Remake: My Experience with Haxe in 2021 by David Conway. ️
• Hello World: Heaps on Android article by Brad Gill.
• How appropriate is OpenFL for 3D programming?.
• PogoGirl Devlog #27: Ice to Pogo You! article by Andrej.
• ClinTex CTi are building their new product OpTex, a clinical trails data visualization & analytics platform with HaxeUI via Ian Harrigan.
• The Zen of Haxe?

Events

• HaxeJam 2021: Winter Edition by logo4poop. ️

Videos & Music

• PBR procedural water shader in Armory3D video by Willbot Studio.
• Mine Blocks is a browser game again! - 2D Minecraft video by Alex Lanzetta.
• Simon Krajewski has streamed some Haxe-dev over at twitch.
• 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

• Frontend Game Developer job offer in Moscow, Russia.
• 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

• SmartPref Pro has been released.
• Mine Blocks is back and has been ported to HTML5 thanks to Haxe by Alex Lanzetta.
• Darksburg have released the Runes of Power update.
• A firefighter from Nuclear Blaze meeting someone whose head is on fire, what could possibly go wrong? Next free 1.1 update will feature many new areas to explore.
• Nuclear Blaze soundtrack is available on Steam.
• Fiscal Jesters v0.4.2 update by kyatt7.
• EVERYONE IS HERE! Dead Cells Update 26 is live: Unlock 6 new outfits coming with their own weapons, specials & secrets. Compliments of Blasphemous, Curse of The Dead Gods, Guacamelee, Hollow Knight, Hyper Light Drifter & Skul!
• Via the Haxe Discord server, ZwodahS has released Dice Kingdom v0.1.1.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, Skyfire2008 has updated TD2S, which you can play at itch.io.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• From 8-10 fps to 90 - 110 fps on the JavaScript target by switching to meshes. by Kaelan Evans.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Aidan Lee is implementing the integer suffix proposal.
• Go2hx unicode/utf8 tests are now running via PXShadow.
• Ian Harrigan has shared couple of new huge HaxeUI GIFs.

Git Repos

• ceramic 0.9.0 has been released.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• A quick update from Fraymakers on their first anniversary of the Kickstarter campaign.
• Addlemoth credits & Addlemoth: Is version 1.0. It’s not out yet, mauve needs to iron out a few things first.
• Music and lighting respond to environment changes in Tyler’s WIP game.
• Unseen corners of the world of Wartales are waiting to be explored and exploited in Early Access.
• Animations and gameplay, united! by SavanDev.

From the Haxe Discord server

• ZwodahS is working on extended version of a haxe-jam game.
• Debug! by GlassySundew.
• Kino got animated textures on the billboard quad and added some textures to the cubes.
• Daniel Blaker is doing a bit of work on Orbdig.

Some Library Releases

• ceramic 0.3.0
• embed-js 0.2.0
• assets-web 0.2.0
• hxRaylib 4.0.0
• hxlr 0.2.0
• itertools 0.0.6
• 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

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

• Embedded/inlined objects discussion.
• Numeric literal suffixes pull request.
• Disallow case string interpolation merged.
• Add missing Python threading apis merged.