Haxe Roundup 696

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

• New Armory3D release: 2023.11 via RPaladin.
• IntelliJ IDEA Haxe plugin version 1.4.17-231 has been released.
• 🏡Village Generator 1.5.3: new water features and other additions article by Oleg Dolya.

Devlogs

• Minicology 0.12.9 Chest improvements post, tutorial changes update and a big boss update.
• Wartales 25/10/2023 patch notes.
• Balance Patch 1.1.0 for Crop Rotation by Eric | ZwodahS.
• Northgard - “Night of the living Draugar: New Blood” article. Triumph over fear and draugr in this seasonal event!

Videos & Music

• Itch.io APP to easily update Armory 3D video.
• Treats & Shrieks - St Louis Game Dev Co-op Halloween Game Jam Game 2023 video.
• Kid Bubblegum Trailer.
• 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

• Kid Bubblegum by Ohsat Games is out and available on Steam and Itch.io!
• Two Button Bounce by Robert Alvarez.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• SPELKORT game made by Melori with Heaps.
• Creature Collab by MSGhero.
• Six Spaceships: now with an “easy” mode! by Jérémy Faivre.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Showcase

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Ceramic v1.3.1 release via Jérémy Faivre.

Git Repos

• towos git - A 2D Platformer created for a high school project in 2015. Built in Haxe using the Flixel library which supports multiple platforms such as Windows, HTML5, Flash, Android, Mac, etc.
• TBOI-Haxe-Port git - HaxeFlixel port of “The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth”.
• stx_coroutine_queue git - WIP Coroutine interface for Ian Harrigans queues.
• hxStomp git - Stomp protocol client for Haxe language.
• [hldx] Implement Drag and Drop API pull request.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

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.

Closed Source

• “We entered the asteroid field. Everyone back to base, I repeat: return to the base!” The latest GIF from the Jitter Game.
• The pathfinding in the Jitter Game has moved to a separate thread.
• Wartales is now available on XBox Series X/S!
• Fishbunjin from Fraymakers, sprites are 100% complete!
• SnkyGames have been tweaking physics and I got obsessed with joints, ‘what if I could take control of an object’. It took six weeks to get joints working how they wanted it.
• Couple of quick videos from eheu:
  • Level swapping.
  • Debug commands.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• RandomityGuy repurposed HIDE to function as a level editor for an existing game.
• Giant procedurally animated robot in Minicology? Made of 9 parts, with 4 attack patterns that upgrade throughout the fight as different sections take damage.
• Power Line Rider showcase:
  • Been working on upgrading my backgrounds tile sets.
  • 2 more upgraded background tilesets. “Squirrel City” and “Monkey Temple”.
  • HUD Redesign.

Some Library Releases

• godot-extension-api-typings 1.0.1
• SScript 7.0.0
• hxsdl 0.1.7
• typepacker 2.0.0
• bake 0.6.1
• mc2it_theme 6.0.2
• dell 0.2.0
• hxgamejolt-api 1.1.0
• hxparse 4.3.0
• hxyarn 0.1.10
• 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

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

• [java/cs] Fix stack overflow from closures constraints merged.
• Improve make_static_call pull request.
• hx4compat tracker.
• Remove weird partial resolution pull request.