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
- Announcing the Shadowlight game created in Kha and accompanying YouTube series.
- Remoting and how to properly handle binary responses?
- Timothy Ian Hely is adding new snippets to the HaxeFlixel snippet site and is looking for suggestions.
- Mauve has posted a development log update on January’s work for Addlemoth.
- Medieval Fantasy City Generator
0.9.1: trees and other visual changes by Oleg Dolya. - WarTales Community Update
#2.
In case you missed it
- 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
- Shadowlight Patreon Introduction by StoryDev.
- Seriously? Just a Fix, Really! - Week
#1Programming by StoryDev. 
Add a video related to Haxe.
In case you missed it
- Adding physics to a HaxeFlixel game with Echo part 4 | Polygonal collisions by Richard Oliver Bray.
- Armory3D - 3rd Person Controller by Armory Blender.
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.
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Bounties
- The team at SoccerTutor are offering a bounty to get this
[cpp]issue 8400 fixed. - Basic Platformer Pathfinding AI for HaxeFlixel
$150bounty. - Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.
Product Releases & Announcements
- Will Blanton has released
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️ millstone ️ ️ available on itch.io. A tiny, brutal, web based, free to play card game that tests your memory and willpower, made in HaxeFlixel in 2 days. - Will Blanton has added a Mac version of Upsquid.
- Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea DLC will come out on mobiles this spring.
- JanoGames got a working prototype of Football Skyscrapers available to play at itch.io.
- Via the Haxe Discord server, ZwodahS has released
0.3.0update for Dice kingdom.
In case you missed it
- Lotus Lobo, an online poster creation tool.
- A little scared by Hellolightbulb got 35th overall place in Game Off 2021!
Previews & Demos
Open Source
Community Previews
- Oleg Dolya implementing basic trees into their procedural generator.
- HaxeUI dialogs styles have been updated making them look much more modern and less blocky.
Git Repos
- polymod
1.4.2has been released. - texter
git- Adding more support for general text input/regular text in multiple libraries such as Flixel, OpenFL and more to be added! - Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.
Closed Source
- HaxeUI is powering ClinTexCTi’s new flagship product OpTex, a clinical trails data analysis platform.
- Merrak shows a now and then comparison between a rooms interior lighting and atmosphere.
- Make sure to get your penguins in order in Renaine.
- Super Cosmic Heist - General Azrael Malice Battle
WIPby Fierce. - ColorLess! Chapter 3… let’s go by SavanDev.
- It’s nice when the numbers match in Jitter Sandbox by Syo.
- A new picture of Rose from In your books.
- Starwing / Starfox remake at 120Hz on mobile. The game is being made with Haxe and SnkyGames’ own game engine. ️
From the Haxe Discord 
server
- Andrej finally got shader looking the way they want: like the game is being played on a melted CRT.
- ZwodahS is working on creating a “screenshot-able” victory/gameover screen.
Some Library Releases
- semver_haxe
1.0.0 - slick_addons
1.3.0 - webstorage
4.0.0 - vector-math
2.4.0 - akismet
2.1.0 - pony
1.8.1 - polymod
1.4.2 - free_mobile
1.1.0 - hscript_template
1.2.2 - kiss-tools
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.
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 abstractoverenumproposal, 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
5~ commits have been made to Haxe compiler in the last week.
- Nothing of interest this week.
You can get started using the latest features by downloading a nightly build of Haxe and see the impact the latest changes have on each target by browsing the benchmarks site.
Take it easy everyone, stay safe and have a great December & a Happy New Years!