Haxe Roundup 645

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.
• Armory3D Release Notes - September Release.
• PogoGirl Devlog #31: PogoGirl is Bouncing to Consoles! by Andrej.
• Bug Hunt – DQ2 Progress Report for August 2022 by Lars Doucet.
• Renaine Kickstarter Update #37: Rollin’ Waves by Renaine.
• 🏡Village Generator 1.3.0: new trees and buildings article by Oleg Dolya.
• Mixup Factory v0.2.0 changelog by kyatt7.
• Josh Tynjala continues to celebrate Feathers UI v1.0 release with another week of announcements!
  • RPC Services 1.0 for Feathers UI article.
  • Webpack OpenFL Loader 1.0 article.
  • Cairngorm 1.0 MVC framework for Feathers UI article.
  • OpenFL Plugin for Vite 1.0 article.
  • PureMVC demos for Feathers UI and OpenFL article.

Videos & Music

• Axol Studio Bring It On! quick intro short, early release short and first boss short.
• Dead Cells - Break the Bank, Breaking Barriers and Enter the Panchaku mobile updates video.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Job listings

• 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

• Dead Cells Enter the Panchaku update is available on consoles.
• Bring It On! v0.6 is now Live!
• Renegade Racing by Paul Gene is now available on Amazon Fire Tablets and the Amazon Fire Stick.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, Sébastien Benard has updated Dungeon Crawler prototype with smoother rotations.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, New pre-alpha version of Rhythm Magus game (made with Ceramic) by Prexot.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

Git Repos

• go2hxdoc git - Generate documentation with tests for go2hx generated Haxe code.
• Haxe-UnrealEngine5 git - Haxe externs and tools for UE5.
• initools git - Tools for parsing INI files and using them in Haxe.
• RayGen git - Haxe engine built on top of Raylib. Not designed to be used yet, very early in development.
• hlsteam git - Haxe native extension for the Steam API.
• xUnreal git - Haxe + Unreal Engine ❤ by ʇ0mmy.
• haxe-checkstyle 2.8.2 has been released!
• [fnf] The Transparent Windows And Multi-Windows for Haxeflixel are now public. via TaeYai.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Platformer sample for Ceramic is coming along, with ladders, one-direction collisions working…

Closed Source

• Better to avoid the giant swinging balls in Chibi Ninja Shino-kun by Ando.
• Ysaml is working on CRYPTID - a roguelite deck building game.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Naoya has tried CRT shader in HITTER.
• ZwodahS has integrated Steam achievements in Dice Tribes: Ambitions.

Some Library Releases

• hxminetest 0.1.0
• formatter 1.14.2
• tokentree 1.2.3
• hscript-template 2.1.0
• qbittorrent 2.83.0
• initools 1.0.1
• hxdist 0.1.6
• swf 3.1.1
• feathersui-cairngorm 1.0.0
• pony 1.9.3
• hxmoralis 0.0.2
• feathersui-rpc-services 1.0.0
• Check out the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

People & Projects to support

• Axol Studio is a small independent game development studio, making games with and contributing to HaxeFlixel.
• 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

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