Haxe Roundup 656

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

• [planning/event] UK Meet Spring 2023 discussion.
• Logo has been working on a list of people in the Haxe community on open platforms such as Mastodon. ️
• ☠️Perilous Shores 1.4.2: labels and improved geometry by Oleg Dolya.
• Papers, Please: Invisible Update Incoming by Lucas Pope.
• Steel Seraph Full Release Process Begins, Windows Version Updated to FINAL.
• Running a whole 2D Game Engine in Unity by Jérémy Faivre.
• Fraymakers Build Update 0.4.13 - Balance, Character Template & Custom Content Online devlog.

Videos & Music

• Let’s Play Bring It On! Episode 02 - Featuring Black Magix.
• Northgard - 3 Million Players.
• How to create interactive 3D text in Armory 3D for speech bubbles or name-tags…
• A quick tutorial on spawning new objects in Armory 3D.
• Let’s make a browser multiplayer game in Haxeflixel stream recording by Richard Oliver Bray.
• 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 29.11.22.
• The free Bank Update for DeadCells is now live on iOS and Android. See Dead Cells - Break the Bank, Breaking Barriers and Enter the Panchaku mobile release trailer.
• Dead Cells+ will be released on Apple Arcade on December, 2nd. See Dead Cells Apple Arcade announcement trailer.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Last Man Fighting was originally created in the vanilla Blender Game Engine (BGE), ported to Godot, PlayCanvas, and now Armory3D.
• George Harpwood has updated source code of their prototypes to be compatible with Flixel 5.0.0:
  • Minesweeper.
  • HxCrush-Saga.
  • HxRogueLike.
• Experimental window manager is now in HaxeUI core! As well as three new examples in the component explorer:
  • Windows.
  • Multiple Managers.
  • Employee App.

From the Haxe Discord server

• 47rooks added lighting maps for diffuse and specular lighting for their OpenGL with OpenFL and Lime project.
• HaxeFlixel lsystemx example by Nanjizal. With source code available at GitHub.
• Jérémy Faivre plans to add Aseprite animations support into Ceramic.

Git Repos

• Ceramic 0.17.7 has been released.
• [armory3d] armcli - Armory command line interface discussion.
• [3star] MSGhero’s ThreeStarJam-DPS git entry source.
• [3star] Ninjamuffin99’s 3star2022 git entry source.
• [3star] MasterEric’s 3-star entry, SpaceDamsel git.
• 3D-HaxeFlixel git uses the Away3D framework and makes it renderable in HaxeFlixel as a FlxSprite, by lunarcleint.
• Bgabri’s Advent-of-code-2022 git solutions repo.
• Gama11’s AdventOfCode2022 git solutions repo.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• New quick video from WIP game by Robert Alvarez: Boxes and switches.
• The level editor for Latin American needs… GRAPE SODA! by SavanDev can now export/import levels.
• starfox-sleepy-batwing.gif by SnkyGames.
• New menu screen - Footgolf by JanoGames.
• New details about Chibi Ninja Shino-kun:
  • Behold: LOOKING. Now featuring more debug overlays.
  • I believe that the next floor of Chibi Ninja Shino-kun will be ice themed. You can get more details if you support Ando on Patreon.
  • Balls.

From the Haxe Discord server

• New screenshot from WIP game Card City Mayor by ZwodahS.
• New art and GIF from Hitter by Naoya.

Some Library Releases

• dropecho.langgen 0.6.2
• flixel 5.0.2
• zerolib 0.8.1
• extension-kizzyrpc 1.0.0
• flxanimate 3.0.0
• linc_luajit 0.0.6
• hxdefold 1.4.0
• SScript 1.0.0
• choc 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

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

• Pretty errors, adding more contextual info draft pull request.
• Missing return ignored after short-circuited throw issue.
• DCE shouldn’t remove static calls to impure functions pull request.