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
In case you missed it
- Fraymakers Progress Update for
9/22/2022article. - 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
In case you missed it
- Dune: Spice Wars | House Corrino release trailer.
- Secret bosses and special enemies in Bring It On! short by Axol Studios.
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
- Five new Armory3D bounties have been listed.
- Basic Platformer Pathfinding AI for HaxeFlixel
$150bounty. - Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.
Product Releases & Announcements
- Battalion Commander 1917 “is a squad shmup set in WW1 settings, but with Tesla weapons” by IriySoft, available now from the Play Store.
- NextRealm Bubbles Beta has been updated, with performance improvements on the client and server side by Antriel.
In case you missed it
- 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,
1.3for 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
LD51 “Every 10 seconds”
- Drill Bill by Aurel and Eido Volta.
- Relay PeaJay and quick intro article by Aeveis made with HaxeFlixel.
- Tenjutsu, 48h game by Sébastien Benard. Play Tenjutsu on
itch.io, with source code available on GitHub. - Help my pain by not so studio using HaxeFlixel, via Discord.
- Heartbeat by Yanrishatum
code, Shessart/story, bublickartand Elvendanmusic. - Assault on Hartblood Hotel by fireslash
code, kiririn51art/writingand junejimusic. - Be Fast! by codescapade using aeons
git. - Near Death Sentence by jefvel.
- I’m Just Hungry by zwodahs.
Open Source
Community Previews
- Oleg Dolya is back into caves
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Git Repos
- crypto
1.0.4has been released, with better performance for block cipher mode operations. - Starling-FFParticleSystem
git- Improved particle system for the Starling framework. - Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.
Some Library Releases
- redistHelper
0.7.2 - crypto
1.0.4 - TelegramApi
1.1.0 - raylib
1.1.0 - omdb
1.0.0 - aeons
0.3.1 - kiss
0.0.1 - kiss-express
0.0.0 - HxShaders
5.2.0 - 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 Caller Tracking proposal.
- Add Traits proposal.
- Add Constructor
this.argsyntax 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 abstractoverenumproposal, 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
33~ updates have been made to Haxe in the last week.
- Language server hangs due to duplicate
--connectflags issue. - Added API to
haxe.Httpfor multiple response headers with same name pull request. - Add
Context.getDisplayMode()merged. [neko]Uncaught exception -load.c(398): Invalid module issue.[hxcpp]Declaration ofxxxhides previous local declaration issue.
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. 