Haxe Roundup 663

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.
• New Armory3D Release! version 2023.02.
• [devlog] Go! Go! PogoGirl hits consoles soon!
• [devlog] DQ2 Progress Report for January 2023 by Lars Doucet.
• [devlog] Odd Verdure Cameras article.
• [devlog] Fraymakers Early Access Build 0.5.2 update with new animations and more!
• [devlog] Minicology 0.9.7 update and 0.9.6 update with meteors reloaded and quality of life fixes.
• 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

• Zara’s Secret Lab (Boss) video from Rogue of Vallas.
• Citadelic Original Soundtrack Preview.
• How to create a custom loading screen in Armory 3D video.
• How to convert Flash to HTML5 - 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

• Sean James McKenzie of Armor Games Studios is looking for a team experienced in porting Haxe games to console.
• 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

• The Clan of the Squirell is now available in Northgard on iOS and Android.
• Surprise! Dicey Dungeons is back for one last roll - the game will be released on Playstation 4 and 5 on Monday 6th February!

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• First test of conlang toponyms by Oleg Dolya.
• How about HaxeUI running inside Godot?
• HaxeUI Ceraminc backend. Incredible progress in just 5 days! Available on GitHub at haxeui-ceramic git.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, Sharpcdf has finished learning game and sample project for Ceramic. Its a little flappy bird knockoff! Source code is available on GitHub.

Git Repos

• quadtree git - Fast, optimized and configurable collision-detection library with Quad Trees.
• h-sdl2 git - Drop in replacement for HashLink’s SDL.
• FlxSVGSprite git - A specialized FlxSprite that can render SVG content in Flixel.
• ClojureHaxe git - Clojure port written in Haxe targeting multiple platforms. ️
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• The first new npc for Patches Of Adventure by Rob Clemmons Jr.

From the Haxe Discord server

• That’s how the new Tenjutsu AI works internally.
• Cartoon_64 is working on a desert area for a Basically A Walking Simulator.

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.

Some Library Releases

• echoes 1.0.0-rc.3
• feathersui-rpc-services 1.0.3
• hmm 3.0.0
• deepnightLibs 1.0.74
• hxopenai 0.0.1
• hxdiscord 0.2.1
• 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

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

• Int/Int32 inconsistent results for shift left operations issue.
• [eval] Add -D eval-print-depth merged.
• [hl] Crash for multiplication of Int (Int64) issue.
• [hl] HashLink 1.13 has been released with support for contiguous memory via CArray, support for @:packed, improved GC and more!