Haxe Roundup 695

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

• OpenFL 9.3.0 and Lime 8.1.0 have been released!
• Play the Kid Bubblegum Demo at Next Fest Now!
• Spooky Update! by Axol Studio.
• IntelliJ IDEA Haxe plugin releases:
  • Release 1.4.15 Broken.
  • Release 1.4.16.

Devlogs

• Wartales Community Update 2 is Out Now!
• Minicology - It’s a bird… It’s a bee… it’s a… bumblebird? devlog.
• Fraymakers Update v0.5.18 - Camera Shake and Controller Dash and Trigger Bug Fixes!

Videos & Music

• Rogue of Vallas Idosra Level 14: Vallan Lab by Merrak.
• Path-Tracing on iOS in ArmorPaint video.
• Ray-Tracing Baking on iOS in ArmorPaint video.
• Wartales | Community Update #2 video.
• 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.

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

• None this issue.

Previews & Demos

LD54 “Limited Space”

In case you missed it

• 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

• AlienArena git - “A Game that Ashton and their brother made when they were 7. Alien shoot Alien with Bouncing Balls.” You can play it online.
• Rough idea: Abandoned village by Oleg Dolya.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, Jérémy Fa considers making a new tool to convert HXCPP & HL/C builds to work with CMake. SomeRanDev stole the idea and added it to reflaxe.CPP git!

Via the Haxe Discord server

Git Repos

• OpenFL 9.3.0 and 9.3.1 have been released.
• Lime 8.1.0 has been released.
• fractal-hx git - Explore Mandelbrot fractals with interactive mouse-controlled zoom.
• ANesX git - Haxe OpenFL Nes Simulator (AminNes).
• epikowa_terminal git - Terminal manipulation library (move cursor, read dimensions, set colours…)
• cobra git - A high-level general-purpose interpreted language.
• lumpy git - Lump editor for Doom projects with most of its focus on GZDoom.
• blok.bridge git - Server-client bridge for Blok.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Armory3D is “continuing to improve ArmorPaint for iOS and Android. Path-tracing now on iPad M1 or newer”.
• Syo uses “GOAP for the behavior of bots and units. Together with the finite state machine, they provide interesting possibilities”.
• Just another calm sol on the space base from Syo.
• The Linerian urge to dig a hole in Renaine.
• Potion drop builds can get a little ridiculous at really high levels in “Into the Necrovale”.
• Minicology Procedural arrow system - “combine arrow shafts (determine arrow damage and speed), arrowheads (determine on-hit effects), and feathers (determines whether arrows pierce, split, or fly straight). 240 or so combinations possible.”
• The Octodad devs wanted to see Octodad win in Fraymakers.
• Presenting - the Double Dumbbell Combo from Fraymakers!
• New GIFs from Animal Arena (which is coming to the App Store and Google Play on 9th of November):
  • The ocean level has low gravity and lets players perform long, floaty jumps!
  • The Mines stage features horizontally moving minecarts to push you around!

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Doodslr is working on Lord of Fights which is an rpg heavily inspired by pizza tower for the style, and god of war for the designs.
• Semmi tries Armory3D.
• Here’s a first look at Gameplay in ⚡️Power Line Rider⚡️ Watch out for squirrels!

Some Library Releases

• parallaxlt 0.0.4
• openfl 9.3.1
• echo-flixel 0.0.2
• lime 8.1.0
• proxsys 0.0.1
• tink_pure 0.7.0
• tink_domspec 0.5.1
• hxyarn 0.1.9
• AE-Script 0.0.2
• electron 27.0.0
• complex 0.0.2
• mc2it_theme 5.7.1
• SScript 6.1.800
• extension-admob 2.2.0
• 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

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

• Catch errors during callbacks merged.
• Enum inlining no longer working issue.
• Has extra field error range is too big fixed.
• [js] Fix enums parameters generation to make it compatible with advanced JS minification tools merged.
• [js] DOMElement insertAdjacentElement should not be pure merged.
• [js] Update Object and Symbol externs pull request.