Haxe Roundup 638

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/in-progress] HaxeJam 2022: Summer Jam has started, with the theme “Lose it All”.
• [events] Announcing HaxeHybrid LAX 2022 by Osaka Red LLC.
  • Aurel will be talking about the ammer framework.
  • The online portion of HaxeHybrid 2022 LAX will be via Google Meet. There will still be a Twitch separate broadcast and after it’s over, the talks will be uploaded to YouTube. via Osaka Red LLC.
• ⛏️Cave Generator 1.0.1 released, plus ideas for further development article by Oleg Dolya.
• Wartales Community Update #4 featuring new content, community requests and full Chinese localisation!
• Torcado: Being a Solo Game Developer interview. ️
• “Papers, Please” but small, coming to Android and iOS, phones, tablets and consoles.

Videos & Music

• In Your Books Trailer.
• I am the king of Octodad combos video by Fraymakers.
• 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

From the Haxe Discord server

• Slameron has made a shooter game for gmtk jam with haxeflixel - Diced Up!.
• Tigga reminds that there are 2 weeks until the release of Blobble Wars 2 on Steam. The game is being made with Haxe and OpenFL.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Penguin-Dash git - A penguin themed endless runner game made using the Stencyl engine. A lecture and laboratory activity for the creators’ Human-computer interaction (HCI) subject during the second semester of their second year. Available on itch.io.
• HaxeUI now has an experimental Canvas component, which is quite functional, currently implemented for Html5, OpenFL, Heaps and Raylib.
  • Animation component.
  • Simple paint tool.
  • Colour picker component.
• Michael Bickel has opened source the first steps to get Haxe natively integrated with Godot. ️

Git Repos

• Ceramic 0.15.0 has been released!
• extension-kizzyrcp git - A android extension that uses Kizzy RPC android library.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• New sound effects to add some atmosphere in Rogue of Vallas by Merrak.
• New editor screenshot from the game by SavanDev.
• Footgolf - some questionable QB ratings by JanoGames.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Prexot shares progress on rhythm rpg game, which is being made with Ceramic engine and Spine animation.
• Skyfire2008 has made a new enemy for TD2S.

Some Library Releases

• HxShaders 4.4.0
• pony 1.8.9
• pirhana 1.1.9
• bootstrap_bundle 2.0.0
• hxdist 0.1.5
• deepnightLibs 1.0.71
• jans 0.0.2
• NBase 0.2.0
• 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.
• 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

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

• Unable to create a Map<Float, Int> issue.
• [php] Possible runtime metadata field name bug issue.
• [hxcpp] Process: Do not create console on Windows OS pull request.
• Needless allocation for the last of multiple identical operations fixed.
• Compilation server. Wrong error position info issue.