Haxe Roundup 694

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

• Shino-kun is coming to consoles, but… by Andrej Preradovic.
• Langton’s Ant on Try-Haxe with Canvas thread by Jeff Ward.
• HaxeFlixel 5.4.0 release announcement covering the latest features such as Aseprite Utils, combing multiple atlases, animation time scaling and more!
• Armory3D 2023.10 is out now! via RPaladin.
• Kid Bubblegum is gonna be at Next Fest!
• “I 99%-open-sourced Even the Ocean (2016)”! But why? by Melos Han-tani.
• LDtk has been mentioned in Game Bytes · September 2023!
• ArmorLab 0.1 is out - PBR material creation app.

Devlogs

• Dead Cells: The End is Near Update is now in Beta phase!
• Minicology Beta 0.11.8 changelog.
• Fraymakers Update 0.5.17 - Tons of crash fixes and other goodies!

Videos & Music

• Learn Heaps.io Basics - Sprites, Animations, and Movement video by Sabe.
• Photo to PBR Material in ArmorLab video.
• Adding 3D collision to my Gameboy Advance game video by SomeRanDev.
• 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.

Shorts

• Youtube shorts from Kid Bubblegum:
  • Kid Bubblegum Sewers 4.
  • Kid Bubblegum Sewers 5.
  • Kid Bubblegum City 7.
  • Spin it.
  • Do you know?
  • A Bumpy Bubble Ride.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Available for work

• You can hire Tim I Hely, a highly experienced HaxeFlixel developer!
• Alex Johansson is looking for a part time/contractor role.
• Rudy Geslin is available for freelance work.

Job listings

• None.

Bounties

• Armory3D bounties are available.
• Keep an eye on the Funkin Bounties repo for future items.
• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.

Product Releases

• Axol Studio have released a new, small, fun game for Hallowseen - The Long Road to Fresno.
• Melos han-tani has announced that Even the Ocean🌊 game is now open source.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• MondayHopscotch made a small games with friends for #GBJam 11, called Legion.
• tinkerTry released an update to their game Pakka Pets Village, using latest NME.
• ⚡️Power Line Rider⚡️ by travis_battles now has a Steam page!

Previews & Demos

LD54 “Limited Space”

• TowerSprawl by Daniel Blaker. Made with Kha.
• Cyberframe EDEN made with Heaps by Spitko.
• Bill’s Cave of Numbers by jefvel. Made with Heaps.
• Minecart Madness made by Jaakko Rinta-Filppula, Mika Kuitunen & Konsta Leinonen.
• Lenticular Isle made with Heaps by Speedphoenix & jean-phenix.
• Speedboat Tube Cruise made with HaxeFlixel.
• Astrolabing the Arctic made with HaxeFlixel by @Sebbernery
• Homeonaut made with HaxeFlixel.
• Free The Slime! made with Heaps & LDtk by Christian Zommerfelds.
• Fac Spatium made with Heaps by nathmate.

Open Source

Community Showcase

• Reflaxe version 3.0.0 has been released! ️ Check out the release for the latest feature highlights.
• Ian Harrigan has a new set of examples for HaxeUI… … Filters!
• Itz_Miles releases ParallaxLT as a haxelib due to “a ton of Friday Night Funkers were asking me about the magic under the hood of these old tech demos”.
• Autumn colours by Oleg Dolya.
• Via the LDtk discord server, LDtk 1.4 is now available! Release notes.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• McCrow created a tool to build and run Haxe code in Nixos and nix environment - haxix git.

Git Repos

• baseFour git - Simple demonstration of how cool base four number representation is. ️
• mxhx-resolver git - Using a document tree generated by mxhx-parser, resolves the symbols that the XML tags, attributes, and text represent.
• Rose git - Mini library for dealing with angles and compass bearings.
• update-center git - Graphical system update tool from SymmetricalOS.
• lunar-engine git - A 2D game engine made in Haxe & SDL, Made for simplicity and performance.
• hlgs git - Haxe Hashlink bindings for Gunslinger.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• New fish animation just dropped! via Fraymakers.
• Literally every person alive has been asking: what will Fishbunjin’s assist be? Today Fraymakers bring you the answer.
• New GIFs from Jitter Sandbox:
  • Energy can neither be created nor destroyed; rather, it can only be transformed or transferred from one form to another.
  • Work in progress.
  • Nothing is clear, but believe me - it works)!
• The last two weeks from Renaine:
  • One man’s anchor is another fish’s… sword?. ️ We respect the vibes.
  • Going up! :parachute:
  • A quick mid-fight intermission… to do another fight
  • The Lower region of Factoria.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• GravityWall is “making a small CLI program to help scaffolding Haxe projects” which is based on “barebones port of Clack”.
• Knives6969 is working on Templar a 2D action rpg sidescroller:
  • Tit and hurtbox process.
  • Just the sprites for 1 attack sequence, walk run and idle.

Some Library Releases

• sourcemap 1.1.0
• flixel 5.4.1
• AE-Script 0.0.1
• parallaxlt 0.0.0
• hxyarn 0.1.7
• mc2it_theme 5.7.0
• HaxeGJClient 4.0.1
• hxsdl 0.1.3
• patterns 0.1.0
• flixel-addons 3.2.1
• reflaxe 3.0.0
• ldtk-haxe-api 1.4.1-rc.1
• SScript 6.1.80
• deepnightLibs 1.0.78
• BrewScript 6.1.80
• dreamengine-cli 0.2.0
• haxegen 0.1.2
• hxstb_vorbis 0.1.1
• hxdr_wav 0.1.1
• neutralinojs 1.3.0
• hxArchipelago 0.8.2
• bootstrap_bundle 2.3.1
• 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 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

18~ updates have been made to Haxe in the last two weeks.

• Dont infer string on concat pull request.
• [eval] Array data is recoverable after resize(0) fixed.
• [eval] Broken exception handling fixed.
• [typer] Delay typer creation to after init macros pull request.
• [typer] Prepare for typer creation delaying merged.