Haxe Roundup 691

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

Community Updates

The HaxeJam 2023 Summer Jam results are out!
Declaring generic function types question.
Trying to implement Array.min question & answers.
Dune: Spice Wars 1.0 Release Announcement.
🏰 Medieval Fantasy City Generator 0.10.0-alpha article by Oleg Dolya.
Article by Lucas Pope on Making “LCD, Please”. ️
Indie Interviews: Mauve developer/designer of Addlemoth, Defender’s Quest 2 & Them’s Fightin Herds.
Via the Haxe Discord server, the latest announcement post for the latest release of LDtk 1.3.4 is available! Here is the changelog.
The Minicology open demo is live for Gamescom!

Renaine Kickstarter Update #46: Everything Pink.
Minicology Beta 0.11.4.1 Filament Rig live in overworld, soda machines, bugfixes post.
Wartales Community Update #2 Paths & Endings & Wartales Roadmap Update!
Northgard The Clan of the Stoat is coming!

Toboiro is a #lowrezjam entry by MondayHopscotch.
Six Spaceships is a #lowrezjam entry by Jérémy Fa.
RollSafe by OURABIG is made in Defold mostly in Lua but some thing are made using the Haxe plugin for Defold.

New GIF from Renaine: bonk!
SomeRanDev previews thier GBA games biggest hurdle is performance with 3D collision per frame.
SomeRanDev has made good progress implementing transitions, static text & more in their GBA game.
Player_03 has continued to update mostly daily about developing Runaway, plus other dev insights.
Funky Birds changed the HaxeFlixel screen again. And it took 8 hours to make all the assets, animate the blocks spawning in, add in all the sounds, and write a unique version of the jingle!
Some guys buyin sodas by zzox (tyler).
Tim I Hely is working on Boss 13… for Bring It On!.
New GIF from Jitter Sandbox by Syo.
New screenshots and quick video from Kid Bubblegum:
- Makin’ levels for Kid Bubblegum.
- Wow, this was a tricky bug to track down.
Shiro games are working on visual improvements for Northgard:
- Here comes a new week of working hard on the Summer Update Northgard.
- Visual improvements will be shared with you over the coming week!
- The Northgard Biomes have undergone a revamp, each now having more distinctive features!
- Here are some Northgard villagers practicing the traditional ritual of the✨Glow Up✨

Jérémy Fa is back to their “light/mirror project testing to add platforms complementary to the ladders that only allow to go up. Could be interesting to design some levels”.
Oderzyl has “worked on some hexagonal pathfinding and infinite worldgen. Done with Haxe, Heaps and deepnight’s GameBase.”
Lakmatiol has a “port of GGPO (rollback netcode library) to Haxe. The video is with 300ms of artificial ping”.
TehPuertoRicanSpartan is moving to the 16-bit sonic era.
Travis is working on Power Line Rider which is an Arcade/Endless Runner.
TheMysticSword are making their own networking.

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.

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

Follow @:forwardStatics abstract merged.
[hashlink] Add support for Xbox Series: new macro HL_XBS, directx adapt pull request.