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
- AMA with Dune: Spice Wars developers.
- A problem not worth solving article by Player03.
- Addlemoth Dev Update: February 2022 by mauve.
- Feathers UI
beta.9preview build on Haxelib by Josh Tynjala. - Super Cosmic Heist Status Report. 2022 release still looks likely!
- Northgard is nominated for the Pocket Gamer People’s Choice Award 2022.
- New Animations + Shoutout to Drag Her! - February 2022 Fraymakers Roundup.
In case you missed it
- Daily Speed-Scrabble-Bananagrams-like… with a Destructive Twist word game announcement of LetterShredder.com by Jeff Ward!
Videos & Music
- Inventory money and level transition effect devlog by RPG Playground.
- Week
#4Brief - Entities Interacting with Entities video by StoryDev. - Squidly continues streaming Renaine development.
Add a video related to Haxe.
In case you missed it
- Fraymakers share “Where the pain grows” soundtrack, with the high quality version on YouTube.
- Vallas Alarm System video by Merrak.
- Adding physics to a HaxeFlixel game with Echo part 6 | Substates | Pausing updates | Pause screen by Richard Oliver Bray.
- Make potions from BAT WINGS indie game devlog by RPG Playground.
- Mixing Combat Mechanics from My Favorite Games? video by Isaac.
- Outtakes - Why do you make programmers lives so hard? by StoryDev.
- In Your Books - A Letter? trailer.
- Dune: Spice Wars Dev Chat stream VOD.
- Will Blanton started tik-tok account and posts micro devlogs there.
- How to color grade water in Armory3D game engine with blender video by Exceptional 3D tutorials.
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
- Zzox (tyler) released isle on itch.io and NewGrounds.
- Alien Shepherd (made with Heaps.io) had been released on Steam.
- Robert Alvarez released new puzzle game Jumping Clones on itch.io and NewGrounds.
- Pirhana submitted Final Destination as a Brackey’s jam submission. Made with Heaps.io!
In case you missed it
- Dune: Spice Wars official website.
- Football Bin Fling! Play it now available on itch.io, by Jano Games.
- Unept has released Into The Pit, now live on Poki, made with Stencyl.
Previews & Demos
Open Source
Community Previews
- Gepatto has managed to get Stencyl running on the Raspberry Pi 4.
Git Repos
- Feathers UI
v1.0.0-beta.9for Haxe and OpenFL pre-release. - away3d-csg
git- A Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) library for Away3D Haxe. - stx_config
git- Configuration routines. - impulse
git- An Android arcade game where you navigate a rocket through various levels. - Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.
Closed Source
- Finally got Fierce’s boomerang to return to him properly like a real…boomerang.
- Lil’ knight is getting ready for its next battle! by Sébastien Bénard. It will be used for the intro of Nuclear Blaze.
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From the Haxe Discord 
server
- Frying☆Pan shared some platform fighter progress.
- Armor displays on the player now by Idenner.
- ZwodahS is working on a new game mode for dice-tribes.
Some Library Releases
- away3d-csg
1.0.0 - redistHelper
0.5.4 - polymod
1.5.2 - slick_addons
1.5.0-alpha.3 - undraw-react
2.0.0 - undraw
2.0.0 - texter
1.1.2 - hxdefold
1.2.193 - hxyarn
0.1.4 - mc2it_theme
1.7.2 - ZenFlo
0.0.2 - zenflo-graph
0.0.4 - fbp
0.0.3 - zenflo-emitter
0.0.1 - feathersui
1.0.0-beta.9 - hxjsonast
1.1.0 - extra-features
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 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
13~ commits have been made to Haxe compiler in the last week.
- Add
-wdraft pull request. - Atomic operations pull request.
[js/flash]^anchor broken when usingEReg.matchSubissue.[neko]Clean up chocolatey package building pull request.[neko]Generate usage message copyright year automatically pull request.
In case you missed it
[tests]Restore Flash tests pull request.[hl/php]Enable sqlite tests and others pull request.[lua]Minimal implementation of ssl pull request.- Implement
Context.withImportspull request. Check out the example usage
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 see you next week. 