Haxe Roundup 650

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/upcoming] Join in on the next Haxe Roundup Roundup over on the Haxe Discord server on October 30th at 18:30.
• HaxeUI gets a new builder, available at http://haxeui.org/builder/.
• Cave Generator 1.1.0: customization by Oleg Dolya.

Videos & Music

• Mesh optimization is Armory 3D - LOD’s explained by Armory 3D Community Channel.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Looking for work

• Rudy Geslin is available for freelance work.

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 $150 bounty.
• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.

Product Releases & Announcements

• Chibi Ninja Shino-kun is on Steam!
• New update coming to Tightrope Theatre on 27th of October! 👻
• Create your own platforms in Ledge Throw, newest game by Robert Alvarez.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Daniel Roberts has added Ogg/Vorbis support to WIP Endor git game engine.

Git Repos

• OimoPhysics 1.2.4 has been released.
• colyseus-haxe 0.14.10 has been released.
• hxdefold-extensions git - Haxe externs for various Defold extensions.
• flixel-framebuffer git - Example project showing how to implement a ‘frame buffer’ to provide a full-screen texture to a game/camera filter. Uses 2D Dynamic lighting as a use case.
• pixelimage git library by Nanjizal now has rounded rectangles.
• stx_parse_uri git.
• CustomBlueprints git - Source code of a Minecraft plugin written in Haxe. The plugin allows players to create blueprints of built structures.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Renaine: Greetings from Lineria.
• Buzzsaws in Chibi Ninja Shino-kun are sharp. Don’t touch them. Really, don’t.
• Mauve is spending some time polishing up the logic for the last(really) NPC for Addlemoth.
• The Air & Sand update for Dune: Spice Wars is approaching!

From the Haxe Discord server

• ZwodahS has started working on prototype for a roguelike deckbuilder city builder.
• Will Blanton has decided to keep working on Planet Monster (their LD51 game) for another couple of weeks.
• Skyfire2008 has added two new enemy types for TD2S.

LD51 “Every 10 seconds”

In case you missed it.

• 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, Shess art/story, bublick art and Elvendan music.
• Assault on Hartblood Hotel by fireslash code, kiririn51 art/writing and juneji music.
• Be Fast! by codescapade using aeons git.
• Near Death Sentence by jefvel.
• I’m Just Hungry by zwodahs.

Some Library Releases

• vision 1.1.0
• grig.midi 0.0.10
• feathersui-rpc-services 1.0.2
• genes 0.4.6
• rive-haxe 0.2.0
• colyseus 0.14.10
• 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.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

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

• toString as instance variable issue.
• [cpp] Fixed @:nativeGen extension generation merged.
• [eval] No error when running a method on a null object issue.