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
- Administrative Organization Changes for OpenFL.
️ - Haxe to OCaml preview announcement. ️
- Pilie Pals - Russian localization and language mods article by Kirill Poletaev.
- Twitter thread from SRDude, author of
magic-array-tools, about the1.3.0latest release. - New posts by Oleg Dolya, Procgen Arcana and Procgen Mansion
2.1.2: permalinks.
In case you missed it
- OpenFL Updates and Budget discussion.
- Created a shader language that can be converted to GLSL (Japanese) blog post about HGSL by Saharan. ️
- Nuclear Blaze by Sébastien Bénard will be showcased live at TokyoSandbox (in Akihabara) on Apr 23th-24th.
- Kirill Poletaev has integrated the new bitmap font generation system into Pilie Pals. Check out the article about it.
- Kirill has also published an article How I create games with with my own 3D engine alone (in Russian).
- Updates about Dune: Spice Wars:
- The Art of Dune: Spice Wars.
- Dune: Spice Wars FAQ - Part 2 from which you will get info about game’s price, system requirements, release window, future development plans and more.
Videos & Music
- High Security Compound Level Playthrough by Merrak.
- Phantom Path - Full Game Soundtrack (Dark Fantasy Music, Dungeon Synth) by Kirill Poletaev.
- Pilie Pals - Full Game Soundtrack by Kirill Poletaev.
- How to add equipment and Items to your RPG game devlog by RPG Playground.
- Fight and Flight - Original Soundtrack by Fraymakers.
Add a video related to Haxe.
In case you missed it
- Squuuidly has streamed work on Renaine on twitch.
- My Orcane is kind of moving by Fraymakers.
Jobs, Bounties
- Add an available job involving Haxe.
Looking for work
- Rudy Geslin is looking for full-time remote 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.
- Little team is looking for a Haxe developer to work on HTML5 games.
- Shiro Games are looking for a Senior Game Programmer.
Bounties
- Basic Platformer Pathfinding AI for HaxeFlixel
$150bounty. - Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.
Product Releases & Announcements
- Dune: Spice Wars is in Early Access now! ️
- Phantom Path Soundtrack is on Steam as a standalone purchase or in a bundle with the game.
- Pilie Pals’ Soundtrack is on Steam as a standalone purchase or in a bundle with the game.
- Via the Haxe Discord server, Griss has published a little game made with Ceramic engine - Tap the ✨GLOWING SQUARE✨.
In case you missed it
- Mohamed Hreez has developed a 3D arcade game with Armory3D.
Previews & Demos
Open Source
Community Previews
- SpaceVim lang#haxe layer has been added.
- HaxeUI buttons (and dropdowns) can now optionally use item renderers for totally custom content.
- Josh Tynjala has created a little Kha extension to draw non-convex filled polygons using more advanced triangulation.
- ʇ0mmy is working on a video extension for HL/ Heaps based on libVLC. First tests are promising, with fast smooth playback and audio!
From the Haxe Discord 
server
- Theangryepicbanana has shared code for Haxe-Self
git, a basic implementation of the Self language.
Git Repos
- haxe-concurrent
4.0.0has been released. - evil-haxe
git- Evil Haxe - A cobbled-together, modified version of Haxe. - stx_fail
git- Structured and Unstructured Errors. - Little
git- Minilang is a super simple and basic language that can be used to teach children how to program. - taxforms
git- A cross-platform library for tax forms. - lime-cffi
git- Lime native CFFI features. - HaxeUI-OpenFL-Boilerplater
git- Boilerplate code for creating a HaxeUI Application using OpenFL for rendering. - Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.
Closed Source
- Tightrope Theatre by Advent “features total of 100 levels across 5 different theatres, with 20 levels each”. Made with Stencyl.
- Sébastien Bénard started working on next game!
- Development on Scraps of Light continues!
- Rob Clemmons Jr is testing out color modes for Patches Of Adventure.
- The testament by Naoya. ️
- Couple of quick videos from upcoming [Speer DX] game by Andrej:
- You can place one checkpoint anywhere in the level and reload from there at any time.
- The brand new slow motion feature.
From the Haxe Discord server
- Skyfire2008 shared new videos from
WIP:- New enemy type - Mine Layer
- Added a bullet-cleaning field that spawns from player’s position on level end
- Changed the background to draw hexagons instead of squares.
LD50 “Delay the inevitable”
- Unfamiliar, plus the game’s announcement by Dan Lin.
- Torcado’s Ludum Dare 50 entry - Chronis.
- Duck It! via Squidly.
- Volcano Maintenance by jefvel.
- The Pit by ZwodahS. Made with Heaps.
- Lightseekers by Chekisteg. Made with HaxeFlixel.
- Puddle Boat by Pirhana. Made with Heaps.
- Snowcastle meltdown by Noiyy. Made with OpenFL.
- Xermatt Redux. Made with Heaps.
- Calcium Carnage by Liam, made with HaxeFlixel.
Some Library Releases
- dice
0.0.1 - hxCodec
2..5.1 - hgsl
0.1.0 - nwawsoft-haxe-util
1.0.0 - formatter
1.13.1 - haxe-concurrent
4.0.0 - RUDP-FL
1.0.0-alpha - rename
2.1.2 - graphql-server
0.2.2 - magic-array-tools
1.3.0️ - tokentree
1.1.2 - hlc-compiler
0.3.0 - graphql-server-php
0.2.0 - haxe-injection
1.0.0 - 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 new syntax for getters & setters inspired by the
C#property syntax proposal. - 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
14~ commits have been made to Haxe compiler in the last week.
- Nothing of interest.
In case you missed it
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. 