Haxe Roundup 643

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

• [upcoming/events] HaxeIn 2022 September event has been announcement. ️
  • Maybe Michael Bickel will talk at upcoming HaxeIn event.
• Shiro Games Gamescom Announcements.
• The Fraymakers Tester Build has officially launched!
• Paul talks about creating the haxe-delegates git library to get ~40% faster calls on HXCPP, with some benches posted for the HXCPP and JS targets.
• Lime 8.0.0, OpenFL 9.2.0 and SWF 3.1.0 release announcement!
• Ready for Feathers UI 1.0 Release Week? Wait… week? Oh, yes! Not only is the big 1.0 stable release for Haxe/OpenFL ready — But there’s also going to be a TON of new open source projects to announce. Stay tuned!

Videos & Music

• Physics and collision events explained in Armory3D video by Exceptional 3D Tutorials.
• Wartales | The Great Gosenberg trailer by Shiro Games.
• Northgard | The Clan of the Eagle trailer by Shiro Games.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

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”, Staff Software Engineer, plus one other technical positions.
• 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

• Ando has set up an itch.io page and email alert for Chibi Ninja Shino-kun, so you can keep up with the game outside of Twitter, if you want! Steam page also coming soon! https://ohsat.com/game/shino-kun/

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• New screenshots from Oleg Dolya’s projects:
  • Railway track for a touch of steampunk.
  • Trying a new method of drawing groups of trees with individual trees at the edges and a solid colour inside.
  • Even more trees.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Sébastien Benard is making progress with renderer in fake 3D: fixed lots of approximations & gaps issues, added support for higher res textures. The map is made with LDTK.
• Jeremy Fa is preparing a new sample for Ceramic using Kenney assets to test its platformer capabilities.

Git Repos

• Lime 8.0.0 has been released.
• OpenFL 9.2.0 has been released.
• [heaps] Implement mouseClip and mouseMode API draft pull request.
• mini-randomizer git - A simple tool to generate things for tabletop RPGs.
• Haxe-GameJolt-Integration git - A full integration of GameJolt to Haxe.
• minisiteBase git - A lightweight code base to build single page web tools.
• CustomEvents git - A library for creating your own custom events.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• HITTER game twitter account by Naoya.
• Being a programmer means that Squidly can put in whatever test sound memes for new transformation item.
• Running around in the rain at night by jefvel.
• Late night Addlemoth work by mauve: Slime blobs, large and small!
• Water theatre update for Tightrope Theatre by Adventure Islands is almost done and just needs some final testing and balancing!
• The last ship you want to see landing upon Arrakis, is that of Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV himself…
• Moving multiple spaces by Robert Alvarez.
• Kyatt7 has announced Impostor Cat Games’ new title, There Was A Mixup At The Factory!.
• Gauthier Billot continues work on raycasted game to make a playable fps:
  • Introducing ECS and a SpriteSystem to handle rotations!
  • It is getting alive!
• New GIFs from Chibi Ninja Shino-kun: Treasure of Demon Tower by Ando:
  • Implementing a falling platform that you can still jump from when it’s dropping.
  • The dropping platforms are done, and now you can also wall-jump off them!
  • Working on letting Shino-kun duck. The animation probably needs a bit of work…
  • Shino-kun can now duck and look up!

From the Haxe Discord server

• Isaac Denner shows added bestiary for Minicology.
• Spitko is loading Quake’s BSP files:
  • Still a work in progress.
  • Got physics working again. Now to get light volumes working.
  • Light volumes (no actual lights in this scene).

Some Library Releases

• openfl 9.2.0
• lime 8.0.0
• swf 3.1.0
• jsoni18n 1.1.0
• genes 0.4.5
• haxe-delegates 0.0.1
• HxShaders 5.1.0
• formatter 1.14.0
• tokentree 1.2.0
• texter 2.3.0
• electron 20.1.0
• 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

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

• [hashlink] Allow multiple file selection in ui_choose_file pull request.
• hl.UI.chooseFile multiple select support pull request.
• [csharp] C# StringMap (and probably more) broken issue.