Haxe Roundup 652

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 the next Haxe Roundup Roundup discord voice chat on November 13th.
• Isaac Denner has started a Kickstarter campaign for Minicology!
• Armory3D Release Notes for November 2022.
• Devtober 2022 Breakdown TD2S devlog.
• Shiro Games is at Paris Games Week.
• Tester Build Update v0.4.7 - Custom Content Integration, Assist Tuning and more from Fraymakers!

Videos & Music

• Tightrope Theatre - Spooky Theatre Update Trailer.
• How to display, modify, and save values/variables in Armory 3D video.
• Using draw nodes in Armory 3D video.
• Smooth vs crisp render in Armory 3D video.
• Sounds explained in Armory 3D 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

• The soundtrack for “In Your Books” is now available on Steam, with a 40% discount.
• Spooky Theatre update for Tightrope Theatre is out now!
• Northgard is currently 70% off on Steam until November 6th!
• “The game where you catch pumpkins” is available on itch.io, made with HaxeFlixel and with source available on GitHub.
• zzox (tyler) has released “deathened” - a short RPG made with Kha. You can play it on itch.io and Newgrounds.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• polcompgen git - A work in progress political compass generator made in HaxeUI by Logo, meant mainly for meme generation, but also for semi-serious usage. Find more WIP posts over on the Haxe Discord server.
• Labels make Oleg Dolya’s maps more interesting but the names need an improvement…
• More map labels from Oleg Dolya.
• ʇ0mmy has Nape 2D physics running within Unreal Engine thanks to their Haxe plugin for UE5.
• Michael Bickel has the Haxe Godot integration at a point where they can write a test game!
• Via the Haxe Discord server, Will Blanton made a little FlxCamera shader for projecting shadows from sprites and stuff. Source is available as a gist.

Git Repos

• Fully support emission colors in all supported shader nodes in Armory merged.
• Ammer rewrite based on ammer-core draft pull request.
• Nimp git - Node based image editor.
• comma git - Haxe library for creating command line applications.
• Choc git - A small ECS library for Haxe/Heaps.
• Doudecimal git - Doudecimal, base 12 only Int.
• GenesisFeathersDemo git - Genesis Haxe / OpenFL / Feathers UI Demo.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• 18 frames of pure Octodad limbsanity from Fraymakers.
• Mauve is conquering their fear of hair drawing for Addlemoth.
• Axol Studio shows what they are working on for Bring It On!
• New indie guests are coming to Dead Cells in the next free update:
  • Shovel Knight.
  • Subject Zero of Katana Zero.
  • The Ironclad from Slay the Spire.
  • Jacket from Hotline Miami.
• New quick videos from Chibi Ninja Shino-kun: Treasure of Demon Tower:
  • Standing with your back against an edge will play a backwards-teetering animation.
  • The second set of floors is lava-themed. So there’s lava. With lavaballs.
• New GIFs from Renaine:
  • Change of step fx when walking on sand.
  • The gate to the temple has opened.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Skyfire2008 has added a new enemy + some more misc. changes for TD2S.
• O3BLA is making some progress with Ceramic.
• ZwodahS is starting next project, a city building deckbuilder, more puzzley than actual city sim.
• Basic Phong lighting on a Rubik’s cube in OpenFL/Lime by 47rooks.

Some Library Releases

• comma 0.1.1
• hxminetest 0.3.1
• vision 1.2.0
• hscript-template 2.1.2
• actuate 1.9.0
• swf 3.2.0
• 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.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

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

• Add %-* and %j to DateTools.format pull request.