Haxe Roundup 651

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.
• Day and Night cycle Armory example.
• Character Customization WIP Armory example.
• Haxe Injection 3.0.0 released – A dependency container for Haxe announcement.
• Northgard: The Night of the living Draugar strikes again article.
• Dune: Spice Wars - Accessibility Update is out now.
• Brandon Boouizel invites HaxeFlixel game devs to join the yearly Tankmas ADVENTure on Newgrounds.
• Closed Beta 0.8.3 QoL v2! Remappable controls, Hotbar-scroll support, new settings & accessories to help you craft, play and more in Minicology! Plus big news being announced tomorrow!

Videos & Music

• How to call node trees in Armory 3D video.
• Using variables and variable trees in Armory 3D video.
• How to use tilesheets in Armory 3D video.
• How to make outlines in Armory 3D without code video.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

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

• Rogue of Vallas gets updated for Halloween!
• Allan Dowdeswell has recently updated the kitchen design app for RTA Outdoor Living, using FeathersUI.
• Spirkop are working on a big update for Energy Island Corp.
• The Dead Cells Boss Rush update is available on all consoles!
• Evoland Legendary Edition by Shiro Games is now available on the Epic Games store, and will be free until 15:00 UTC on Thursday. ️ ️

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Crimson Lakes by Oleg Dolya.
• 👻Ghost Quarter by Oleg Dolya.
• Constellations generator by Oleg Dolya.
• ʇ0mmy has updated xUnreal git to be in a more usable state.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, Frying☆Pan has made Chroma Fighters git repo public.
• Nanjizal continues work on pixelimage git library:
  • Radial gradients.
  • Mask field added.

Git Repos

• ceramic 0.17.2 has been released.
• Improve & Add documentation to classes inside haxe.ui.components pull request.
• Implement collapsible dialogs in HaxeUI merged.
• Chartist-hx git - Externs for chartist.js library.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• I wonder what this could be…? from Bring It On! by Axol Studio.
• Spin skulls from Patches Of Adventure by Rob Clemmons Jr.
• The first indie guest coming soon to Dead Cells. Will deal damage in spades!
• New GIFs from Renaine:
  • All together now.
  • Monke Business.
• New quick videos from Chibi Ninja Shino-kun: Treasure of Demon Tower by Ando:
  • A true ninja has secret ancient techniques to open doors! …such as using the key.
  • I think I did it wrong.
  • Currently reworking tilesets.
  • I had to add a teetering animation.

From the Haxe Discord server

• More 3D OpenFL progress by 47Rooks.

LD51 “Every 10 seconds”

In case you missed it & ranked (Top 100 Overall).

• Tenjutsu, 48h game by Sébastien Benard. Play Tenjutsu on itch.io, with source code available on GitHub. 5th
• Autoball by torcado using OpenFL. 7th
• Near Death Sentence by jefvel. 23rd
• Relay PeaJay and quick intro article by Aeveis made with HaxeFlixel. 24th
• Drill Bill by Aurel and Eido Volta. 25th
• Heartbeat by Yanrishatum code, Shess art/story, bublick art and Elvendan music. 60th
• Assault on Hartblood Hotel by fireslash code, kiririn51 art/writing and juneji music.
• I’m Just Hungry by zwodahs.
• Help my pain by not so studio using HaxeFlixel, via Discord.
• Be Fast! by codescapade using aeons git.

Some Library Releases

• haxe-injection 3.0.0
• vision 1.1.1
• hxdefold 1.3.7
• 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

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

• MainLoop issues on HEAD issue.
• Class with @:structInit typed as Anonymous Structure issue.
• [hxcpp] Fix invalid c++ when storing cpp.Pointers in enums pull request.
• [hxcpp] Support extern enums pull request.
• [hl] HL thread name merged.