Haxe Roundup 684

Welcome to the latest edition of the Haxe Roundup. Haxe is a high level, strictly typed programming language and cross-compiler.

Community Updates

[events/upcoming] The next Haxe Roundup Roundup Discord event is scheduled for July 2nd.
Haxe Toolkit Support 1.4.0 released supports Intellij 2023 announcement.
Caribou has been updating the awesome Haxe gamedev list.
OpenFL devlog: updateAfterEvent(), FileReference improvements & option to use Terser minifier.
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.

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.

Dune Spice Wars Conquest Update is available now!
The PS5 version of Dead Cells is coming to digital stores on 29 June! Use haptic feedback, adaptive triggers, audio feedback and lighting to take your runs to the next level. Owners of the PS4 version will be able to upgrade for free.
Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania DLC is now available on Android and iOS.
Juriën Meerlo has released Gravity Golfing on iOS and itch.io.
Wartales June Release notes.

HaxeUI CSS now supports stacking of multiple CSS filters, meaning you can get VERY creative with things if you want. ️
George Kurelic has made a version of FlxTypeText that works on FlxBitmapText. Here is an example class.
George Harpwood continues work on FlxSprite Inspector:
- Introducing a New UI and Exciting Updates.
- Added flipX, flipY and alpha inspection.
- Added Alpha and Scale X/Y Inspection, UpdateHitbox button and Stable Release in Repo.
- Skew Functionality Re-Enabled.

JDSherbert has shared Wwise-Soundbank-XML-Parser git - a small script to help with parsing AudioKinetic’s Wwise Soundbank XML’s.
M0rkeulv has released IntelliJ Haxe plugin version 1.4.1 on marketplace, and hopefully version 1.4.2 will be live today. If you dont want to wait you can get version 1.4.2 from GitHub right now.

Eric shared some stats about Crop Rotation demo during Steam Next Fest.
A well timed parry in Scraps of Light will stop an enemy in their tracks.
Just getting some reading done in Renaine.
Less than 90 tasks are left to be done before release of Defender’s Quest 2: Mists of Ruin.
Will Blanton previews their Grass Dude game made with HaxeFlixel.
Gauthier Billot shared new GIFs from WIP game:
- Introducing sectors attached to walls and with a floor texture, so now different floors is a reality.
- Cool I now handle camera y, I’m ready to work on floors with different heights.
New screenshots from Kid Bubblegum:
- Working on another tileset.
- Gambling is bad and pink.

[@tag] is making a small ability multiplayer shooter Spike Squared with Colyseus and HaxeFlixel.

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.

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.

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

Typed exceptions are no longer caught on certain targets issue.
Bitwise compound assignment inside of a Map switch statement causes Unbound variable and Compiler failure fixed.
Allow boolean operators in patterns merged.