Haxe Roundup 615

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

HaxeUI 1.4 in-depth release article by Ian Harrigan.
The first RPG Playground GAME NIGHT will be on Friday Feb 18 @ 7pm-9pm EST. ️
Feathers UI Devlog #41: RouterNavigator path parameters and redirects, lime-openfl-maven-plugin, TodoMVN and HN Reader samples. ️
Dan Hett “had a chance to go deep on the writing and production of Closed Hands with @gamedevdotcom, if you’re interested in why the game exists and how we managed it, have a peek!”.
Introducing: House Harkonnen in Dune: Spice Wars.
Introduction to the Haxe programming language tutorial (in Greek) by Harpwood.
Timothy Ian Hely is still working on new Snippets for HaxeFlixel. Do you have suggestions or want to help us out?

Videos & Music

Rogue of Vallas Lighting Demonstration by Merrak.
Adding physics to a HaxeFlixel game with Echo part 5 | Overlap triggers by Richard Oliver Bray.
Importing assets on iOS video by ArmorPaint.
Armory3D and blender versions explained - Why Armory doesn’t use normal blender by Exceptional 3D tutorials.
Armory3D in 2022 | Is it good now? video by Exceptional 3D tutorial.
Ingame Menu added game devlog by RPG Playground.
I Made a Game with Ecological Mechanics! video by Isaac Denner.
Did You Miss It? - Week #2 Programming video by StoryDev.
Dune: Spice Wars - First Gameplay Trailer.
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

The team at SoccerTutor are offering a bounty to get this [cpp] issue 8400 fixed.
Basic Platformer Pathfinding AI for HaxeFlixel $150 bounty.
Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.

Product Releases & Announcements

Wartales is 20% off till the end of February the 20th on Steam!
Bad Soccer Manager is available on iOS by Jano Games made in Stencyl.
Andrej has released version 1.0.3 of Go! Go! PogoGirl with a “much requested feature: A timer that tracks and saves your best times, so you can try to speedrun the game!”
New ArmorPaint builds are out on iOS and Android. More to come!
MOTO RUN 3310 by Michael Miriti.
Via the Haxe Discord server, Mig Moog has finished The Zoo Game and open sourced it.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

LDtk 0.10.0 beta is now available for public testing. Full changelog. Please be warned that it’s NOT production ready. The stable 1.0.0 release should happen later this month, if everything goes as planned.

Git Repos

Nothing of interest this week.
Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

Fraymakers demo “when it comes to making hits feel good, seemingly small animations make a huge difference.” Plus a slightly more detailed description.
Wartales release their roadmap for March, Summer and beyond!
Kino Rose previews some puzzle work for their new game built in Heaps.
Wind in space in Jitter Sandbox, made with Heaps.
Gepatto been working with Will Blanton on getting wonderful Upsquid game running on the Raspberry Pi 4. And it runs on x11 too!
Fiscal jesters now has 11 playable characters, and I’ll keep going.
So much too do, so little time. In your books previews some great art.
Rainy day fishing. made with HaxeFlixel.

From the Haxe Discord server

Animal crossing style voice noises by Prexot / goldenPiGames.
R.c is still refining procedurally generated islands made with Heaps.

Some Library Releases

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

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

[neko] Migrate to PCRE2 library merged.
[hxcpp] Fix Unicode file operations merged.
Semaphores and condition variables merged.
Null coalescing operator merged.

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!