Haxe Roundup 661

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

• [events/upcoming] HaxeJam 2023: Winter Jam will start February 6th. ️
• Haxe plugin for Vite has been release.
• Michael Bickel has announced that the first alpha release and some basic documentation for HxGodot are ready! ️
• [devlog] Fraymakers Build Update v0.5.0 - Early Access Launch! New Among Us Assist! Plus 0.4.19 and 0.4.20 updates and fixes.
• [devlog] Building Blocks devlog by Rob Clemmons Jr.
• [devlog] Tracking and displaying in-game statistics in Citadelic devlog by Kirill Poletaev.
• Godot 4 Haxe Programming Extension HxGodot Released article by Game From Scratch.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, the go2hx website has been redesigned by PXshadow. ️
• Logo has been working on a list of people in the Haxe community on open platforms such as Mastodon.
• Haxe.Social is a new unofficial Akkoma instance for Haxe developers and projects.

Videos & Music

• Rogue of Vallas Level 1, 2023 Version video by Merrak.
• Using shape keys in Armory 3D video.
• Fraymakers Early Access Launch Trailer!
• Install ArmorPaint in Linux (Substance Painter Alternative) video.
• 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

• Keep an eye on the Funkin Bounties repo for future items.
• 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

• Via the Haxe Discord server, Necrovale game demo by CLYDE. Made with Haxe and Heaps.io.

Previews & Demos

LD52 “Harvest”

In case you missed it

• Abundance, a 2.5D metroidvania by Aurel.
• Jerry and the Sunlight entry by Jérémy Faivre.
• Grow Golf entry by torcado.
• Crop Rotation entry by ZwodahS.
• Space Harvest 9000! entry by Vasco.
• Goblin Sylvester the Mighty Harvester entry by Yanrishatum (Pavel Alexandrov), Devilsmile and Shess.

Open Source

Community Previews

• A well-documented barebones sample projects for calling C++ code from Haxe through a variety of methods is available from hxcpp-interop-testbench git by MasterEric, who created some minimal working example projects for calling C++ code from Haxe. It includes barebones sample projects for using DLLs via CFFI, extern projects, and the in-development Ammer library by Aurel300. ️
• Raspberry Pi Support has landed in the 8.2.0-Dev branch of lime. ️

Via the Haxe Discord server:

• Polymod 1.7.0 showcase.
• Daniel Blaker has revamped texture packer tool with a slick coat of tink_cli, bug fixes, continuous cross platform builds and greater customisation. Check out the repo on GitHub.

Git Repos

• Polymod 1.7.0 has been released (the modding framework for HaxeFlixel and other game engines) includes mod dependencies, script import blacklisting, ZIP mod loading, and official HTML5 support.
• Ceramic 0.18.0 has been released.
• LDtk 1.2.5 has been released.
• Haxe-concurrent 4.0.1 has been released.
• [hxgodot] Implementation of variant types in Haxe merged.
• [ammer-core] Summary of changes for ammer-core.
• haxeui-babylonhx git.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• SnkyGames are working on finalising the wireframe mesh deformation and want to try the boost sprites in their Starfox remake.
• New quick videos from Chibi Ninja Shino-kun by Ando:
  • The pathfinding is broken THE BUZZSAWS ARE ON THE LOOSE.
  • Some HOT ninja action. Get it? You get it.
• New GIFs from Renaine:
  • Everyday I’m shovelin’.
  • Fierce battle on the fate of monkey 2023. 🐒
  • Save monkey? 🐒 reply with y/n.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Minicology showcase: Testing Automations mechanics now let you use item filters to auto-sort chests.

Some Library Releases

• flixel-addons 3.0.2
• flixel 5.2.0
• echoes 1.0.0-rc.2
• haxe-concurrent 4.0.1
• polymod 1.7.0
• hxCodec 2.6.0
• haxe-files 4.0.1
• hxlibmap 1.0.1
• electron 22.0.2
• ldtk-haxe-api 1.2.5-rc.3
• 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 Integer data types proposal.
• Add Trailing Block Expressions proposal.
• 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.

• Asynchronous IO API design questions.
• [hxcpp] Destructible hx::Object issue.