Haxe Roundup 642

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

• [upcoming/events] HaxeIn 2022 September event has been announcement. ️
  • Maybe Michael Bickel will talk at upcoming HaxeIn event.
• Neighbourhood Generator 1.2.0: new template, integration with mansions, lots of visual changes article by Oleg Dolya.
• The Shiro Games booth at Gamescom 2022 is looking spectacular.

Videos & Music

• First person player Armory 3D tutorial (only nodes) part 1 and part 2 by Exceptional 3D tutorials.
• Introducing The Spire! short by Fraymakers.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Job listings

• Axol Studio’s are looking for a social media manager & for someone to playtest & help balance the game difficulty.
• Hacksaw Studios are looking for a Haxe developer to join their team working on the core framework. EU candidates preferred & position is remote friendly.
• Saga Education, “a leading provider of in-person and online tutoring products, currently has multiple openings for Software Engineers”, Staff Software Engineer, plus one other technical positions.
• Little team is looking for a Haxe developer to work on HTML5 games.
• Shiro Games are looking for a Senior Game Programmer.

Bounties

• Basic Platformer Pathfinding AI for HaxeFlixel $150 bounty.
• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.

Product Releases & Announcements

• Unept has updated their games to work on new iPhones.
• Chester’s adventures continue in the free Water Theatre update for Tightrope Theatre. Coming soon!
• Go! Go! PogoGirl Version 1.0.5 update by Ando.
• Axol Studio has updated Bring It On! to v0.5.1 to fix the issues with the 2nd level’s end-boss (and a few minor tweaks).
• Grapefrukt has updated Rymdkapsel with a fix for broken mission completion. This game turns TEN next year, that’s uh, a very long time!

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Rogue Sun #lowrezjam entry by half.
• Usagi Corps by Naoya.
• GrindCraft - Haxe/OpenFL port of popular game. via gonzo.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Previews

• Michael Bickel hxgodot-cpp git repo is “slowly taking shape. Basic Variants are working, I put down the first issues for people to track, comment and pick up”.
• Ian Harrigan shows new example in the HaxeUI explorer: todos.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Another HXCPP debugger update by Aidan Lee: stepping, breakpoints, exceptions, and local variables are now working in VSCode. ️
• Jeremy Fa has added “nine slice” support to Ceramic. Here is live sample.
• Aidan Lee has made a small bot for a Discord server.

Git Repos

• Ceramic 0.16.0 has been released.
• haxe-checkstyle 2.8.0 has been released.
• [weblink] Add OAuth2 support pull request.
• [heaps] Fixed 8-bit WAV files playing with glitches due to incorrect sample rate calculation merged.
• kluez-resizer git.
• chsub git - Change the subsystem of a PE executable between console and windows applications.
• haxe-deflatex git - Implementation of the deflate and inflate functions in pure Haxe.
• heaps-msdf-text git - Simple extension of the Heaps’ Text class that supports outlines using multi-channel SDF.
• sneaker_api git - Old and novice API made awhile back using Haxe to help automate the purchase of sneakers from footsites.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• New stage incoming to Fraymakers!
• SnkyGames will add an option for different low resolutions in Starwing. Here is low resolution Arwing on display.
• Fight intro from Scraps of Light. The player can skip this intro by spam-clicking as well.
• A Preview of Level 3: Fallow Fields from Bring It On!
• Even when you have the shroomed status effect in Renaine you can still have that sick shroovement.
• Jefvel is trying out some lights in WIP game which is being made with Heaps.
• Some updates on Chibi Ninja Shino-kun: Treasure of Demon Tower by Ando:
  • Pixeling away at my new game.
  • Reworked Shino-kun’s sprite and animations.
  • Since Shino-kun is a ninja, he can slide. Ninjas can slide, right?
  • A look at more Shino-kun animations is available for Ando’s patrons.

From the Haxe Discord server

• Sébastien Bénard is testing a few old school tricks to create a 2.5D engine (Dungeon Master, Eye of the Beholder), without relying on 3D.
• Skyfire2008 has added bloom to TD2S.
• Shahar got around to implementing borders for shapes in OpenFL: for circles and ovals.
• ZwodahS has added the new ambition for Dice Tribes: Ambitions.
• Redfill The Canadien’s first program made with Haxe, Heaps and HaxeUI.
• Party planet from Minicology by Isaac Denner.
• Spitko is rendering Quake maps in Heaps:
  • Got the camera working the dumb way.
  • Meanwhile, have a door.
  • Working on an AO baking process.
  • Baked lighting.
  • More tweaking of heaps shadows.

Some Library Releases

• chsub 0.1.1
• checkstyle 2.8.0
• hxmoralis 0.0.1
• hscript_template 2.0.0
• deflatex 1.0.0 ️
• haxeium 1.0.0 ️
• Check out the most recent library releases on HaxeLib.

People & Projects to support

• 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 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

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

• Restore macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) support pull request.
• Restoring Lua tests issue.
• [hxcpp] Inconsistent overflow behaviour for Int32 issue.
• [haxelib] Migrate to argon2id for storing passwords pull request.