Haxe Roundup 655

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.
• [planning/event] UK Meet Spring 2023 discussion.
• Flixel 5.0.0 has finally been released! With Flixel-addons 3.0.0 being released alongside.
• HaxeFlixel 5 Released review by Game From Scratch.
• Learning Haxe for experienced coders thread.
• Richard Oliver Bray’s upcoming Let’s make a browser multiplayer game in Haxeflixel stream link.
• Addlemoth Dev Update: November 2022 by mauve.
• Fraymakers Tester Build Update 0.4.12 notes.
• Minicology public alpha 0.8.7.1 devlog - Woperator Abilities, Crates, Turrets and more!
• Dune: Spice Wars - Air & Sand Update release.

Videos & Music

• Dune: Spice Wars | Air & Sand cinematic.
• Networking tutorial / multiplayer games in Armory 3D.
• Merrak added some new NPC AI to Rogue of Vallas.
• EyeDaleHim has recreated the Tender Treats credits in HaxeFlixel.
• A New Assist Joins Fraymakers!
• 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

• An open Wartales beta for the highly anticipated co-op mode had been launched. Join their official Discord server to gain access now.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, G-Switch Creator beta is a running platformer with level editing and sharing. Game made by Vasco with HaxeFlixel, back-end server code with NodeJS.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Via the Haxe Discord server, a new showcase of Hxcppdbg by Aidan Lee: improved exception handling, when the target is paused due to an exception you can use the special $exn variable in the evaluator to access the thrown object.
• Introducing HxCodec+! a upcoming HaxeFlixel/OpenFLl library capable of playing audio/video formats on native and HTML5. With the ability to speed up playback and stream mp3, wav, flac and more formats with easy implementations!
• Jérémy Fa continues to improve Ceramics documentation, with the latest update adding a guide about Components.

Git Repos

• Ceramic 0.17.5 has been released.
• [cosy] Add entity component system functionality draft pull request.
• Nanjizal has updated L-System library to Haxe 4 and renamed it to lsystemx git.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Cornell Daly’s game engine will have full keyboard/controller support complete with rebinding.
• Squidly is getting things more organized on the dev tool side of things for Renaine (there are 500 or so level pieces and counting).
• Merrak is making progress with new levels for Rogue of Vallas.
• Some animated Flixel 5 logos:
  • HaxeFlixel splash screen made in 3D.
  • Reanimated the Intro.
• New screenshots and a GIF from WIP game Tenjutsu+ by Sébastien Benard:
  • Everything looks better with some proper lighting!
  • When I was a kid, Prince of Persia spikes TERRIFIED me.
  • Tenjutsu+ is the extended version of Sébastien’s last Ludum Dare entry. The gameplay was completely reworked and now features a campaign mode, and infinite scoring mode and ~10 enemy types.
• Some news and videos about Chibi Ninja Shino-kun:
  • Ando’s newsletter subscribers should now have received access to the early build of Chibi Ninja Shino-kun!
  • The official key art.
  • That dude looks chunky. Wonder what he OH NO NO NO.
  • Watch out, or you’ll end up with ninja pancake.

From the Haxe Discord server

• 47rooks hash basic materials working with control of light color in their OpenGL with OpenFL and Lime project.
• New screenshot from WIP game Card City Major by ZwodahS.

Some Library Releases

• flixel 5.0.1
• ceramic 0.4.0
• linkedlist 0.2.0
• extension-androidtools 1.7.0
• zerolib-flixel 0.8.1
• choc 0.0.6
• flixel-addons 3.0.0
• vision 1.2.3
• flixel-demos 2.9.0
• flixel-ui 2.5.0
• 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

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

• [hxcpp] Crashes with win10 executables when non-ASCII chars present in exe path issue.
• [haxelib] Add support for customMetas and customDefines fields merged. ️
• Custom metadata and defines (documentation, completion) pull request. ️
• [hxcpp] Build error when building classes extending abstracts issue.
• Fix anonymous functions in operator expressions regression pull request.
• [hl] Fix Int64.isInt64 merged.
• [haxelib] Add an --unstable flag for installing unstable releases issue.
• [haxelib] Attempt to restore legacy server merged.
• [cpp] Extern STL Containers and ArrayAccess merged.
• [hl] Fix printing i64’s merged.
• Atomic API merged. ️