Haxe Roundup 636

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

• [events] Announcing HaxeHybrid LAX 2022 by Osaka Red LLC.
• [events] HaxeJam 2022: Summer Jam! ️
• SSSPICY by torcado won the $10,000 grand prize for @Replit’s Kajam 2022 game jam!
• ☠️Perilous Shores 1.4.1: compass rose and other visual changes article by Oleg Dolya.
• Addlemoth Dev Update: July 2022 by mauve.
• Bring It On! v0.3 is now LIVE on Steam and itch.io with added Achievements, End-game bonuses, a Reroll button, and more!
• Armory3D | Release Notes | 2022.07 - July Release.

Videos & Music

• A little reminder that Squidly is streaming development of Renaine on twitch.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Looking for work

• Andreas Drewke is looking for a freelancer job or part time job.

Job listings

• Axol Studio’s are looking for a social media manager & for someone to playtest & help balance the game difficulty.
• Hacksaw Studios are looking for a Haxe developer to join their team working on the core framework. EU candidates preferred & position is remote friendly.
• 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.

Bounties

• Basic Platformer Pathfinding AI for HaxeFlixel $150 bounty.
• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.

Product Releases & Announcements

• Dicey Dungeons is now out on mobile, available from the Play Store and AppStore. Also the new DLC Reunion is out everywhere (the DLC is included in the regular Steam update)!
• Jump and fly around to collect all the stars in Hop Warp by Robert Alvarez.
• Torcado has also released new version of SSSPICY with several bug fixes and a few more levels!
• New demo of SCRAPS OF LIGHT is out and available on itch.io, with rebalanced skills, added more QoL features, fixed bugs…
• The In your books Game’s soundtrack will officially be released June 20th, with the game’s trailer! via Eléa Lecoq.

In case you missed it

• Dicey Dungeons Reunion DLC will be released, today, July 7th. Check out the Dicey Dungeons Reunion & The Reunion Reunion articles.
• “My favourite place” by zzox (tyler) is out now on itch and Newgrounds.
• 🔥 SSSPICY! 🔥 by torcado. Made for kajam 2022.
• Talk To Strangers developed by Post Mortem Pixels is ported from Stencyl to Nintendo Switch and will be available soon on Nintendo eShop.
• Skyfire2008 uploaded the latest build of TD2S with lots of new sounds and bug fixes.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

From the Haxe Discord server

• Shahar Marcus shared progress on auto-updater section of the installer.
• Rc-05 has worked on Telegram API implementation in Haxe with a test bot written in Haxe. The library is available on HaxeLib.
• Jeremy Fa started working on bindings for Soloud.

Git Repos

• littleBigInt 0.1.6 has been released.
• hxbitecs git - Macro powered Haxe wrapper for BitECS.
• [haxeui] Add Russian locale merged.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• The Gosenberg nobleman from Wartales.
• A CRT filter really makes this Renaine’s colours pop.
• E. Zachary Knight is making a gallery shooter type game in HaxeFlixel.
• If you click on these red squares hard enough they give you sand by SRDude.
• House Corrino is coming soon to Dune: Spice Wars.
• Unexpected guest when the exhibition was closed.
• Couple of quick videos an early version of mobile platformer (which is being made with Stencyl, Aseprite and FL Studio) by MortMort:
  • Staring a slice of toast!
  • Early preview of desert theme.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Prexot has shared a couple of videos of a very WIP on a game with Ceramic engine and Spine animation.
• RayLoi is experimenting with KincHL + HGSL:
  • Texture is working.
  • OBJ is working.

Some Library Releases

• TelegramApi 1.0.0
• NBase 0.1.2
• hxArchipelago 0.7.0
• littleBigInt 0.1.6
• 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.
• 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.

Updates from the Haxe core

Current Proposals & Discussions

• Add Traits proposal.
• 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.

Core Changes

16~ updates have been made to Haxe in the last week.

• Unit test on high bit shifts issue.
• Ignore EOF while attempting to read the HTTP header pull request.

In case you missed it

• Add JVM annotations within annotations pull request.
• Abstract classes and interface issue.
• Monomorph type applied when doing ?? return issue.
• [jvm] JvmCode.EmptyStack when using explicit return inside an arrow function stored in a field issue.
• Inline constructor fails when some function returns this issue.
• Add BigInteger type pull request, with this implementation being 5x faster than others and 3x faster than native Java. ️

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.