Haxe Roundup 657

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

• Logo has been working on a list of people in the Haxe community on open platforms such as Mastodon. ️
• How to easily map to Lua tables?
• Force new to be called as method in Lua.
• Minicology 0.8.8: Ambient enemies and Irrigation fixes devlog.
• Northgard: A huge thank you to 3 Million Vikings!
• Armory 3D December 2022 release notes.
• Dead Cells had been nominated as Most Improved game at The Game Accessibility Conference.

Videos & Music

• How to change materials at runtime with Armory 3D.
• Fix camera overlaying frames issue short.
• Armory 3D December 2022 release notes video.
• Dead Cells Apple Arcade Release Trailer.
• Building an online multiplayer browser game with Haxe and Colyseus upcoming stream by Richard Oliver Bray.
• HaxeFlixel 3D Tutorial: Basics and Loading a Model Part 1 video by lunarcleint.
• Rogue of Vallas Level 6-4: Excavation Playthrough.
• 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

• Corrun is looking for an experienced Haxe programmer to make a deltarune engine.
• Fire Falcom are actively looking for Gaming Platform Programmers.
• Little team is looking for a Haxe developer to work on HTML5 games.

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

• IriySoft has released Cursed Treasure 1½ on Google Play Store and App Store. This is the good old Cursed Treasure packed with 15 new levels and some features from part 2.
• Nuclear Blaze by Sébastien Benard is coming to consoles on April 28th 2023! And it will include PHYSICAL editions, with extra physical goodies! ️

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Michael Bickel continues working on hxgodot-cpp git by updating everything to latest Godot Engine 4 beta and has improved on the Haxe GC lifecycle interop with the engine. ️

From the Haxe Discord server

• Green Fleece game by MondayHopscotch. Made for GitHub Game-Off 2022.
• Sprite exported from Aseprite and then read into Ceramic by Jérémy Faivre.
• Aidan Lee has added support for native types in Hxcppdbg, so you can inspect c++ pointers, references, classes, structs, etc. Even if they aren’t externed, even if they only appear in untyped sections.

Git Repos

• reflaxe git - Haxe framework for creating compilation targets using macros. ️
• hiss-ports git - Ports of the Hiss interpreter to various Haxe targets.
• armorlab git - ArmorLab is a software for AI-powered texture authoring.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Starfox update from SnkyGames.
• lunarcleint just realized that you got to actually add game to the game.
• Here’s the 9-slice working in Mine Blocks by Alex Lanzetta.
• Spirkop Games are working on the next update for Energy Island Corp.
• New quick videos from Chibi Ninja Shino-kun: Treasure of Demon Tower by Ando:
  • Even more fire!
  • Better believe I’ll use the new fire wheels to make tricky sections like this.
  • Experimenting with a new animation and made a cursed Shino-kun.
  • This is fine.
  • I mean, I did make [Speer DX], so I might as well reuse some ideas…
• IndigoUán and Aaron are working on a 3D renderer for HaxeFlixel:
  • Day 2. Here is a simple wireframe cube being moved around with FOV changes.
  • Day 3. Finally got rotation down.

From the Haxe Discord server

Some Library Releases

• reflaxe 1.0.1
• dropecho.interop 0.4.4
• dropecho.ds 1.4.1
• dropecho.storygen 0.9.2
• dropecho.langgen 0.7.0
• pirhana 1.1.10
• dropecho.lib_example 0.9.2
• extension-androidtools 1.8.0
• flxanimation 3.0.1
• newgrounds 2.0.1
• tokentree 1.2.5
• 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.

• [eval] Add additional Compiler/Context functions for getting compiler configuration and main func/output types merged. ️
• macro '#if (a != b)' should be true for missing defines pull request.
• [hxcpp] Don’t allow static casting of extern classes or enums merged.