Haxe Roundup 613

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

• New Stage Announcement - January 2022 Fraymakers Roundup.
• Fraymakers Progress Update - 2/2/2022.
• ☠️Perilous Shores 1.3.1: town notes and numbered hexes article by Oleg Dolya.
• RPG Playground has released the early access premium version of RPG Playground which gets you lots of cool extra features, with sales going better than expected! Made with Kha. ️
• Sick Month - DQ2 Progress Report for January 2022 by Lars Doucet.

Videos & Music

• Adding physics to a HaxeFlixel game with Echo part 4 | Polygonal collisions by Richard Oliver Bray.
• Armory3D - 3rd Person Controller by Armory Blender.
• 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

• Shiro Games are looking for a talented marketing director to join them!
• ScottPlusPlus is looking to hire a Haxe developer, ideally with web experience, to help with consultation and code-reviews for a couple hours per week.
• ZAVOD Games (Moscow, Russia) are looking for a Senior Haxe developer to work on Taonga: the Island Farm.
• 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.
• 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.
• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.

Product Releases & Announcements

• Lotus Lobo, an online poster creation tool.
• A little scared by Hellolightbulb got 35th overall place in Game Off 2021!

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Git Repos

• ceramic 0.10.0 has been released.
• [lime] Add a single-threaded asynchronous mode to BackgroundWorker and ThreadPool pull request.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Jano Games has made a menu for Soccer Skyscrapers, their take on the Qbasic Gorilla banana game, made in Stencyl. Plus, a bit of backnforth and explosion effects.
• Jano Games has been working on the How To Play menu for Bad Soccer Manager, made in Stencyl.
• zzox (tyler) used a displacement shader from Andrej for the background of rhythm fishing game. Plus gradual darkness in a day-night cycle (sped up).
• Valentín Barros is testing performance and sound - running fine at 60 FPS on Android and Linux.
• Nintendo Switch release for In your books is in plans. Not so soon though. PC first & some teasers are coming.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Menu Screen from Hitter by Naoya, plus more progress with the boss and WIP settings screen.
• Idenner has put together a new trailer for Minicology
• Is it really a space game without a glowy mushroom biome?

Some Library Releases

• pony 1.8.0
• mc2it_theme 1.7.0
• bootstrap_bundle 1.3.0
• fireduck 1.0.52
• hscript_template 1.2.1
• GHX 0.1.0
• which 3.1.0
• pirhana 1.1.5
• path2ereg 0.2.0
• hx_selectors 1.0.2
• test-adapter 2.0.0
• 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

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

• Nothing of interest this week.