Haxe Roundup 692

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

• Haxe 4.3.2 has been released! Check out the list of bugfixes in this release.
• 🔑Dwellings 1.2.0: Tags and improved visuals article by Oleg Dolya.
• Armorpaint 0.9 has been released.
• How to add in <?php declare(strict_types=1) question & answer.
• Dune: Spice Wars 1.0 release date and F.A.Q article.
• 🏡Village Generator 1.5.1: ponds and improved farm fields article by Oleg Dolya.
• Haxe/C++ Tips for Avoiding GC article by SomeRanDev.
• Ohsat Games now have their own Discord server.

Pax West

• Ultra Fishbunjin 3000 & Fraymakers at PAX West post!
• Some photos from Fraymakers team at PAX West:
  • PAX West has officially opened!!
  • A new friend has joined the Fraymakers booth for day 2.
  • Tt’s PAX West day 3!
  • Three more hours left of PAX West.
  • Goodbye PAX West!!!
• Some photos from Renaine team at PAX West:
  • Renaine at PAX West.
  • Did you know you can pet the Chompy in the Renaine demo.
  • That’s a wrap!

Devlogs

• Dead Cells Update #35 “The End is Near” is in alpha stage!
• Wartales Community Update #2 Preview: Camp & Troop Management.
• Fraymakers Update 0.5.15: Menu Memory Leak, Dash Buffer and More Bug Fixes!
• Dune Spice Wars: Introducing House Ecaz.
• Northgard Kernev Update is available now!
• Dead Cells: The second Patch released for current alpha for Update 35!
• Wartales Community Update #2 Preview: Combat & Battles. Plus patch notes.

Videos & Music

• Northgard | The Clan of the Stoat trailer.
• Dune: Spice Wars | 1.0 Release Announcement trailer.
• Texturing a Cowboy in ArmorPaint 0.9 video.
• HSV-Colorpicker (GUI) In Haxe | Heaps.io video.
• Play Kid Bubblegum at SAGE 2023 NOW! trailer.
• How to Make a Space Game in Heaps.io - EP2 (Adding Sprites & Player) tutorial.
• 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

• Kid Bubblegum finalized boss beating animation short.
• RPGPlayground is working on new actions dialog devlog.
• Kid Bubblegum City 3 short.
• Kid Bubblegum City Boss short.
• You Shall Not Pass! Kid Bubblegum short.

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

• Nuclear Blaze is available now for Nintendo Switch!
• The demo of Kid Bubblegum is now live and available to play at SAGE 2023 - Demo Kid Bubblegum.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• BGP: Kitchen Infestation by E. Zachary Knight has been out for a couple of weeks.
• Penrose by michael! is a non-linear interactive novella which was built in OpenFL, and is releasing on Steam this month. There is also a playable demo.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Showcase

• The VsHaxe extension version 2.29.1 has been released!
• Short thread by Nanjizal: Abstract types in Haxe allow getting rewraped instance as an inherited abstract type.

Git Repos

• ICU 1.0.1 has been released.
• [reflaxe.CPP] Pointers of child class implicit cast merged.
• [reflaxe.cpp] Float32 operators overloading to avoid generating double pull request.
• haven git - Haxe build system (modeled, very loosely, on Maven).
• escam git - Extremely simple command-line app manager (Escam).
• piw git - Post-installation Wizard for SymmOS.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Bullwhip bones now always tackles smaller birds in Renaine.
• Important Mail Delivery ️ in Renaine.
• Crop Rotation is launching soon. Final build should be done by this Friday.
• Wartales thread of new battlemap objects coming soon in Community Update 2!
• The latest from the Jitter Game:
  • Ray casting.
  • Multiple selection.
  • The germs of stealth mechanics
  • I need a good reference for shooting animations.
• Couple of quick videos from Untitled GBA Game by SomeRanDev:
  • Transition system between maps.
  • Peak debugging.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Tyler is making a sim game; operating a convenience store.
• NPCs in WIP game by Jome.
• Coolaydang is remaking Dollar Delving from scratch.
• Jérémy Faivre’s lowrezjam game got ranked #1 on the Audio category!

Some Library Releases

• SScript 5.1.0
• formatter 1.15.0
• smartfox-haxe-client 1.0.1
• akismet 2.3.1
• free_mobile 1.2.1
• intl 1.0.1
• hxpy 0.0.1
• colyseus-websocket 1.0.13
• hxraudio 1.0.0
• hxArchipelago 0.8.1
• thrift 0.19.0
• minimalcomps 1.0.0
• genes 0.4.10
• echoes 1.0.0-rc.5
• hxdefold 1.5.0
• mc2it_theme 5.4.0
• neutralinojs 1.2.0
• dropecho.storygen 0.13.1
• dropecho.ds 1.5.3
• tink_domspec 0.5.0
• dropecho.interop 0.6.0
• webstorage 5.2.0
• cookies 1.2.0
• electron 26.1.0
• 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

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

• [hashlink] Add HL prefetch merged.