Haxe Roundup 607

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

• Value types vs allocated types and SoA in Haxe question, with George Corney providing a proof of concept macro SoA & AoS abstract over plain byte buffers.
• Trigger vibration on Android from Heaps/Hashlink article by Brad Gill.
• Presenting Hexlock, a really fun game for Android by Brad Gill.
• New HUD, Animations and FrayTools Features! - November 2021 Fraymakers Roundup.
• Closed Hands featured in Kotaku’s “14 Fascinating Unknown Indie Games To Play Straight Away” article, via Dan Hett.

Events

• HaxeJam 2021: Winter Edition by logo4poop. ️

Videos & Music

• Nuclear Blaze OST - Through fire and flames - Pentadrangle.
• 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

• To celebrate the 20th year of Motion Twin and 6 million units sold of Dead Cells, Motion Twin has announced that The Queen and the Sea DLC a.k.a the epic conclusion of DLC Trilogy will land on PC & Consoles Q1 2022!
• The time has arrived. Wartales has been released into Early Access. Watch the early access release Trailer. ⚔
• Robert Alvarez has released new puzzle platformer called “Jump and Hover” on Itch and NewGrounds.
• Mauve has released the demo of Addlemoth! And is already working on players feedback.
• Rafael has released Trash Hook, in which you are “a fisherman, you decide to save the ocean, one trash at a time!”
• Some new additions to Nuclear Blaze by Sébastien Benard:
  • Radioactive water in Reactor One zone
  • Some extra context for the most obscure secret
• Via the Haxe Discord server, ZwodahS has released Dice Kingdom v0.1.2 update. So what is dice kingdom?.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, A little scared is an entry by Hello Lightbulb for GitHub’s Game Off 2021 game jam. via Richard Bray.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Ian Harrigan has updated raylib-haxe externs to 4.0, which are now auto-generated.
• LumbirBwut is learning how to use Haxe and LDtk. And they’ve created a free tutorial.

Git Repos

• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Nyrh is working on the editor (instead of the game). It’s being made with Heaps and ImGui and AvenyrhEngine.
• Fraymakers show off and talk about a new costume being made in the palette editor, FrayTools.
• New Kanyon Karver trailer, featuring improved UI and new music.
• GUI hoops are a hassle for inspiration. by Techy Wrinkles.
• Winter in Go! Go! PogoGirl just seems to get colder and colder…
• Just slidin’ on ice in the wintertime. On a pogo stick.
• Clear_Assistance is creating a Pokemon MMO using HaxeFlixel.
• Zzox (tyler) is back to working on rhythm-fishing game.
• Rob Clemmons Jr has demonstrated a little progress with the shader for Patches Of Adventure.

Some Library Releases

• zenlog 0.1.0
• raycast 1.1.0
• watch 0.0.6
• mc2it_theme 1.5.1
• zygameui 11.0.5
• bootstrap_bundle 1.2.2
• raylib-haxe 1.0.0
• 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.

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.

• Semaphores and condition variables pull request.
• Implement abstract expression keyword pull request
• Type hole with open? structures issue.
• [jvm] @:strict doesn’t produce arguments issue.
• Default type parameters pull request.