Haxe Roundup 653

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.
• UK Meet Spring 2023 discussion.
• Minicology Alpha 0.8.6 Jellyfish invasions, Event Tag & Tutorial improvements.
• Alpha Demo release for Minicology - Nanotech & Woperator reveal.
• The Everyone is Here Vol. II update for Dead Cells is out now!
• Content Push – DQ2 Progress Report for October 2022 by Lars Doucet.

Videos & Music

• Dead Cells: Everyone is Here Vol. II - Gameplay Trailer
• How to make a full casual game in Armory 3D by Exceptional 3D Tutorials.
• New videos on Armory 3D Community Channel:
  • Randomness explained in Armory 3D.
  • Everything new in Armory 3D - November 2022.
  • Post processing explained in Armory 3D.
• 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

• Sébastien Benard has released Memento XII the Anniversary Edition.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Snazzy new, and more importantly, up-to-date HaxeUI documentation is now available! via Ian Harrigan
• Via the Haxe Discord server, Jeremy Fa is working on a new example project for Ceramic users that shows how to display text, change font, alignment, maximum width…

Git Repos

• Replace var with let in Cosy git has been merged.
• eramic 0.17.4 has been released.
• example-haxe-externs-for-rust git - An example of Haxe extern for a C binding for a Rust lib by Thomas J Web.
• fabula git - Parser and engine for stories, events and dialogs parsed from xml.
• stx_build git - I heard you like tools, so I made tools to make tools.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Mauve’s character art for Addlemoth is slowly improving its way out of “looks like webcomic art” territory.
• SnkyGames are back from holiday and working on their Star Fox game clone.
• Freestyle Engine Dev Build : 001.
• Level 2 of Footgolf coming together.
• The next Mine Blocks update is officially 50% complete.
• New screenshots and quick videos from Chibi Ninja Shino-kun: Treasure of Demon Tower by Ando:
  • Makin’ levels.
  • There probably are less dangerous ways to transport fire balls from one place to another, but oh well.
  • Alright, working on the menu wasn’t that bad so far. Added some new possible animations and two new item types: ranges and toggles.
  • Back and forth. Back and forth. Don’t touch it.
  • Official Shino-kun Key Art! is available for patrons.
• New screenshot and GIF from Bring It On! by Axol Studio:
  • Working on some Pathfinding for Man’s Best Friend!
  • Level up and earn upgrades as you battle through hordes of enemies.
• New quick videos from the upcoming update for THERE WAS A MIXUP AT THE FACTORY!:
  • The Fiscal Jesters’ resident card shark Polly is coming.
  • Funny Jester: The Sands Of Time.
  • Oops, we accidentally ordered two forklifts.

From the Haxe Discord server

• 47rooks showcases their OpenGL with OpenFL and Lime progress:
  • Example of use of both 2D bitmapdata content and 3D content.
  • With some help from the OpenFL server I have 2D and 3D on OpenFL.

Some Library Releases

• comma 0.1.2
• haxegen 0.1.0
• 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

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

• [hxcpp] Use cpp::Int64 for haxe.Int64 instead of a class merged.
• Register custom metadata to completion provider feature request.
• Analyzer Fusion order of operations issue.
• Final variables raise inconsistent errors for overloaded assignment ops issue.