Haxe Roundup 632

Welcome to the latest edition of the Haxe Roundup. Haxe is a high level, strictly typed programming language and cross-compiler.

Community Updates

Feathers UI 1.0 Release Candidate 2!
How to “Monitor read and write accesses” thread.
Big changes coming Lime’s way article by player03.
Status update: Spring 2022 by player03.
Renaine Kickstarter update #35 - Static, like Lighting article.
☠️ Perilous Shores 1.4.0: non-square maps, bays and peninsulas article by Oleg Dolya.
FierceTheBandit shares result of the first week since Super Cosmic Heist came out!

Make a game using these new tilesets for RPG Playground devlog.
My game’s demo is in Steam Next Fest! video by Minicology.
Shiro Games | Unlimited - PC Gaming Show 2022 Announcements, with Wartales and Dune Spice Wars getting multiplayer support, plus Northgard’s next expansion titled Cross of Vidar and much more.
Add a video related to Haxe.

Saga Education, “a leading provider of in-person and online tutoring products, currently has multiple openings for Software Engineers”, Software Engineer III, Staff Software Engineer, plus two other technical positions.
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.

The latest bounty from Rob Clemmons, a Better Inventory System for $520 Bounty.
Basic Platformer Pathfinding AI for HaxeFlixel $150 bounty.
Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.

Jefvel has released a game for Pico Day on Newgrounds, made with Heaps! - The 1000.
Minicology has a demo available for Steam next fest. via Idenner.
Prexot has released the first public-ish version of Spine Ceramic character creator.

[Speer DX] by Ando is now officially released on Steam! And it’s fully compatible with Steam Deck!
Super Cosmic Heist is out now! ️
Bring It On! by Axol Studio now has a Steam Store Page!
Via the Haxe Discord server, Qeshi has made Kuri in Lull the Ghosts! with Ceramic.
Via the OpenFL Discord server, Red Minnow and VIP Interactive have released their Donor Recognition / Hall of Fame system that is based on OpenFL/FeathersUI. It is a kiosk-based system that links to a backend CMS that allow companies to brand their application and add their own content. Check out VIP Interactive website and the demo application. A special thank you to Josh Tynjala for his efforts creating FeathersUI and for all of those who have answered my questions.

Via the Haxe Discord server, ShaharMS’s little language is currently only supports string concatination, but its ready for adding subtraction/multiplication support.

Fraymakers shows off some progress on Welltaro’s forward strong animation.
The test project by Ando.
Ando has improved the tutorial messages in [Speer DX] to make them more obvious and informative.
ʇ0mmy is experimenting a bit with HashLink extensions and has done some work on creating a HashLink / Heaps extension that embeds a webview into HashLink. ️
Some scenes from a new level in Rogue of Vallas, the Vallan Empire oil well–or twisty maze of pipes.
Febreeze is working on a platformer game and using Ceramic engine.
Techy Wrinkles is toying with some cheesy Enemy pattern / AI.
Awake, Saviour from Hitter by Naoya.
SRDude shares progress on puzzle platformer:
- Here’s a look at where we at on day 28.
- Prototyping a system for manually moving time forwards and backwards.
- Progress…?
- Time Reverse UI 2.0!!

ʇ0mmy (tee) is experimenting and was able to run Unreal Engine 5.0 INSIDE Heaps/Hashlink! The entire UE5 engine is built to a lib and linked with HL, so you can extend it. ️
Tuhkis’ ECS’ scripting interface may not be perfect, but it at least works!
Skyfire2008 has added a weapon test mode to TD2S.

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.
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.

Add Constructor this.arg syntax proposal.
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 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.

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

Add Context.makeMonomorph merged.
[hl] Fix ArrayBytes not clearing properly after pop, shift or splice pull request.