Haxe Roundup 680

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

• Kid Bubblegum devlog #2 by Andrej.
• LDtk – Level Designer Toolkit in 2023 by Game From Scratch.
• 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

• Reminder that Squidly does a Haxe dev stream every weekday on Twitch. 6pm EST -> 12am EST Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday. 12pm EST -> 6pm EST Thursday/Friday.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Looking for work

• Alex Johansson is looking for a part time/contractor role.
• Rudy Geslin is available for freelance work.

Job listings

• Backend Haxe devs wanted to make PVP deltarune fangame listing.
• Ysbryd Games is looking for HaxePunk porters for a potential future title.
• Sean James McKenzie of Armor Games Studios is looking for a team experienced in porting Haxe games to console.

Bounties

• Armory3D bounties are available.
• Keep an eye on the Funkin Bounties repo for future items.
• Basic Platformer Pathfinding AI for HaxeFlixel $150 bounty.
• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.

Product Releases

• Return Portal, Robert Alvarez newest puzzle platformer is now playable on Poki.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• CUBIC DRIFTER by MichaelTheBirthdayRatz.
• stickFlixel by Dusky.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Showcase

• The recreation/port of “Dojo of Death” to HaxeFlixel is nearing completion! George Harpwood is currently adding the final touches.
• Oleg Dolya hoped this would look like fir trees…

Via the Haxe Discord server

• IntelliJ Haxe Plugin 1.4.0 Beta build 13 d3d685f5 by m0rkeulv.

Git Repos

• hxdb git - A powerful and lightweight JSON driven Haxe database.
• OpenFL 9.2.2 has been released.
• Lime 8.0.2 has been released.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• SRDude presents “to you the first(?) Gameboy Advance game created in Haxe.”
• Jurien Meerlo has “added gravity activated moving walls. Need to work on the procgen placement logic a bit. They can spawn in not ideal places at the moment.”
• Jérémy Faivre has resumed work on their small jam game from January about harvesting light with mirrors.
• Something tells Lars Doucet that this little psycopath is going to become a fan favourite character in Defenders Quest 2.
• A sewer level for Kid Bubblegum.
• Pacing and balance can really transform something from a bunch of systems into a real game. By Clyde for Into the Necrovale.
• New quick videos from Renaine:
  • Call and response.
  • Testing out some stuff.
  • I think I may have missed the wall.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• ZwodahS has updated Crop Rotation.
• Idenner has “been trying to incorporate a bit more procedural animation into my enemies” in Minicology.

Some Library Releases

• openfl 9.2.2
• lime 8.0.2
• bootstrap_bundle 2.2.0
• sasl 0.1.0
• neutralinojs 1.1.0
• jans 0.2.0
• omdb 1.2.4
• SScript 3.0.0
• cxx2hx 1.0.1
• hx_webserver 0.0.3
• tweenxcore 1.1.0
• 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 support for Typed metadata proposal.
• Add support for Extension of Abstracts proposal.
• Add Shading proposal with alt macro solution.
• Add package alias proposal.
• 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

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

• ?? precedence issue.
• Abstract @:op(a == b) not working on Haxe 4.3 closed.