Haxe Roundup 654

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

• [upcoming/event] Join the next Haxe Roundup Roundup discord voice chat on November 27th.
• Dead Cells - Fancy helping us test some new Dead Cells content in December?
• Fraymakers - Tester Build Update v0.4.10 - Frame Lengthening Support for Online Mode article.
• Dune: Spice Wars had been nominated for Best Sim / Strategy at this year’s The Game Awards. Go cast your vote now!
• Via the Haxe Discord server, A Big update from Aidan Lee on Hxcppdbg progress. ️

Videos & Music

• Let’s Play Bring It On! Episode 01 - Featuring Black Magix.
• New tilesets on RPG Playground.
• Animated plants in Armory 3D tutorial.
• 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

• TD2S changelog 14.11.22.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Jeremy Fa shared a video of a text rendering demo in Ceramic Engine.
• Daniel Roberts has shared some screenshots from Endor git development:
  • Textures!!!.
  • Why is this happening sfgsfgdsgfdgfsd.
  • Fixed textures.

Git Repos

• [openfl] Remove the defunct Kha backend pull request.
• [cosy] Refactor mutable pull request.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, “Bit of trolling” is working on Trax, a native web framework for Haxe.
• go-haxe-ast git
• haxe-mui git
• haxe-todo git - Simple terminal based Todo app in Haxe.
• HxQuadTree git - Basic implementation of QuadTree algorithm for collision detection.
• dropthing git - Simple Match4 Game Client/Server In Haxe.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Kyatt7 showed working multiplayer mode in There Was A Mixup At The Factory!
• When the death animation doesn’t work properly in new WIP game by Robert Alvarez.
• Putting in final touches on the Renaine’s build on a plane.
• New GIF and quick videos from Chibi Ninja Shino-kun: Treasure of Demon Tower by Ando:
  • Success! I have sub-menus now, and there’s even an animation.
  • MULTIBALL! MULTIBAAAALL! Fireball, that is.
  • Here’s a lil’ (and slightly janky) gif.
  • Shield ninjas can be found all over Demon Tower.
• New character art from Addlemoth by mauve:
  • She’s lookin’ good and surly.
  • There she is, in portrait form (very very WIP) .

From the Haxe Discord server

• ZwodahS started working on a deckbuilder city building game. Here is the deckbuilding screen.
• Michael Bickel has 2 more nasty things to fix then the first version of the tutorial game (being made with HxGodot-CPP) is fully working!

Some Library Releases

• trax 0.0.1
• choc 0.0.4-alpha
• vision 1.2.1
• qbittorrent 2.83.11
• 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

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

• Null coalescing warning pull request.
• Triggering typing in build macro breaks interfaces 4.2+ issue.