Haxe Roundup 647

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

• [event/catchup] Catchup on last weeks HaxeIn 2022 stream VOD.
• Fraymakers Progress Update for 9/22/2022 article.
• House Corrino has arrived on Arrakis… announcement.
• Renaine Kickstarter Update #38: Three Dots and an Anchor
• An open alpha version of Rogue of Vallas is now available! Download here for Linux, MacOS, Windows! By R.L.Watson.
• Wartales Roadmap Update and Gosenberg Update news.

Videos & Music

• Dune: Spice Wars | House Corrino release trailer.
• Secret bosses and special enemies in Bring It On! short by Axol Studios.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Job listings

• Fire Falcom are actively looking for Gaming Platform Programmers.
• 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

• Axol Studio released the game they made in less than a week for the Goodbye Summer Game Jam - Hyper Space Attack Force: Starmander!
• Heck Deck: Spells and Specters is a free update coming out on all platforms on October 4th.
• After 2 months+ of work, 1.3 for Dice Tribes: Ambitions is finally finished.
• The Water Theatre update for Tightrope Theatre is now out! Explore new levels! Earn new achievements! Speedrun on the new leader board!
• Odd Verdure was created for GBJam 10 from Sept 16 - Sept 26, 2022. It’s a “platformer with no jump” that took inspiration from Bionic Commando.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

Git Repos

• [hxmath] Fix Vector2.rotate not rotating around pivot merged.
• [ammer-core] Add the eval target, requiring a Haxe/OCaml/opam development setup.
• [hashlink] Migrate fully to GitHub Actions merged.
• [nme] Add iOS mouse wheel support merged.
• [crypto] crypto 1.0.3 has been release with faster AES implementation.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Aidan Lee decided to spend some time adding more features to the expression evaluator in Hxcppdbg.

Closed Source

• New GIF from Addlemoth by mauve - balancing is hard.
• Quick video from HITTER - Careful, you’re in the presence of a veteran.
• New quick videos from Chibi Ninja Shino-kun by Ando:
  • Added a dive kick move that turns into a slide.
  • What’s a ninja without a hookshot?

From the Haxe Discord server

• Fake dithering + ramped shadows + coloured lights in Dungeon Crawler prototype by Sébastien Benard.

Some Library Releases

• HxShaders 5.2.0
• crypto 1.0.3
• electron 21.0.0
• aeons 0.3.0
• hxdefold 1.3.5
• fonthx 0.0.5
• deepnightLibs 1.0.72
• 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

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

• Nothing of interest.