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
- Jeff Ward has added multiplayer support to Letter Shredder using WebSockets.
- Summoning Reinforcements - DQ2 Progress Report for February 2022 by Lars Doucet.
- The Shadowlight game update and change of plans.
- Haxe
4.2.5has been released on GitHub.
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In case you missed it
- 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.
Videos & Music
In case you missed it
- Inventory money and level transition effect devlog by RPG Playground.
- Week
#4Brief - Entities Interacting with Entities video by StoryDev. - Squidly continues streaming Renaine development.
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
- Advent has released Total Party Kill on Poki.
In case you missed it
- 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!
Previews & Demos
Open Source
Community Previews
- HaxeUI “canvas” abstract drawing PoC by Ian Harrigan.
- Via the Haxe Discord server, Fsasquatch is making a tiny logging library.
Git Repos
- internBase
git- A base game to be used for interns study. - feathersui-binding
git- Experimental library to implement data binding with@:bindableand events. - hxDTS
git- A Torque Game Engine DTS parser. - Kholdan
git- A silly game engine development toolkit. - Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.
Closed Source
- Another character from In your books - Miss Orme.
- Timothy Ian Hely is teasing new game Bring It On!
- New wood floor tileset for Addlemoth.
- Super Cosmic Heist - Overlord Mecha Malice Boss
WIPby Fierce. - CommandersVideo’s new dash attack is perfect for chasing down your opponents in Fraymakers latest preview.
- Merrak previews a new entry room in a “water facility”, now with animated waterfalls! Made in Stencyl.
- Couple of quick videos from Renaine:
- Throwing axe trail effect.
- Pro gamedev tip: add trails to everything.
- Oleg Dolya is working on their 7DRL entry:
- I need to turn this into a playable entry.
- Day 2 progress.
From the Haxe Discord 
server
- New particles in Minicology by Isaac Denner.
Some Library Releases
- deepnightLibs
1.0.69 - openfl-click-group
1.1.0 - mc2it_theme
1.7.5 - redistHelper
0.5.8 - hxyarn
0.1.5 - slick_addons
1.5.0 - opentype.hx
0.0.4 - 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.
- Regex Unicode sequences break completion issue.
[js]ESM import syntax support issue.[lua]Minimal implementation of ssl merged.[jvm]Allow option to produce.classfiles without zipping them into a jar feature request.
In case you missed it
- 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.
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. 