Haxe Roundup 679

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

• [events/upcoming] The next Haxe Roundup Roundup discord event is scheduled for Sunday 28th May at 18:30.
• Advocating lisp-ish metadata on typed metadata article.
• Presenting Hammerspoon-hx community announcement.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, Sayofthelor made HaxeQuest git for a school project which was also presented at their school showcase.
• ☠️Perilous Shores 1.5.3: improved towns and woods by Oleg Dolya.
• Bundle Beeline got a 2nd place for graphics. via Gourami.
• [devlog] Kid Bubblegum devlog #1 by Andrej.
• [devlog] New Fraymakers Patch! Tons of New Sprites and Character Changes!
• [devlog] Bring It On! v0.10 - Catacombs Update Released!
• [devlog] Wartales Release Notes for 24/05/2023.
• [devlog] Minicology Spring 2023 devlog.
• Logo has been working on a list of people in the Haxe community on open platforms such as Mastodon.
• Haxe.Social is a new unofficial Akkoma instance for Haxe developers and projects.

Videos & Music

• 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.
• Minicology - Devlog reel for Spring 2023.
• Star Victory from Rogue of Vallas video.
• Bring It On! Catacombs v0.10 video.
• Via the Haxe Discord server, Small pixel art animation by pixel_turkey made with Haxe.
• Add a video related to Haxe.

Jobs, Bounties

• Add an available job involving Haxe.

Looking for work

• Alex Johansson is looking for a part time/contractor role.
• Rudy Geslin is available for freelance work.

Job listings

• Backend Haxe devs wanted to make PVP deltarune fangame listing.
• Ysbryd Games is looking for HaxePunk porters for a potential future title.
• Sean James McKenzie of Armor Games Studios is looking for a team experienced in porting Haxe games to console.

Bounties

• Armory3D bounties are available.
• Keep an eye on the Funkin Bounties repo for future items.
• Basic Platformer Pathfinding AI for HaxeFlixel $150 bounty.
• Squidly has opened up a bounties page for HaxeFlixel features.

Product Releases & Announcements

• Kid Bubblegum now has a Steam page. Which means that you can wishlist it!
• Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania Standard & Signature Editions are coming 11th August to PS4/5 and Nintendo Switch. via Motion Twin.

Previews & Demos

Open Source

Community Showcase

• “Update Haxe highlights” PR for highlight.js. merged ️
• Experiments with dependency injection by Alexander Gordeyko.
• George Harpwood has announced latest mini project: recreating/porting ‘Dojo of Death’ to HaxeFlixel, the 10th of their 10 HaxeFlixel game prototypes challenge, as a fun way to learn.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• HaxeFlixel showcase: new feature merged into dev - AssetPaths has an allFiles array, including every path.

Git Repos

• msgpack git
• hammerspoon-hx git - An ongoing effort to bind the whole Hammerspoon Lua API to be used from Haxe.
• rum git - A simplistic task executor defined in a JSON file.
• hxpm git - HXPM is a modern, project manager for Haxe.
• Ceramic v1.2.0 has been released.
• Check out the latest open source Haxe projects over on GitHub.

Closed Source

• Wonderful cave tiles in Jitter Sandbox.
• Sneak peek at one of Dune: Spice Wars’s upcoming conquest mode maps.
• Portal prevention zones by Robert Alvarez.
• Juriën Meerlo is working on a little game called Gravity golfing.
• Such a simple object is giving SnkyGames’ collision body auto generation a heart attack, can you also see why?
• SnkyGames loves 3D. The only nightmare they have is 3D rotations.
• Couple of new GIFs from Renaine:
  • Excuse me ma’am I do not enjoy being stabbed like that I do not have any business with you and so I shall slide away.
  • Challenge: locate the ouch zone. hint: the pink hitbox means ouch.

Via the Haxe Discord server

• Room editor with multiple rooms that fit nicely together by Knose.
• New GIF from Into the Necrovale by Casey Clyde.

LD53 “Delivery”

In case you missed it

• Why Deliver Y?, a vaguely noir puzzle game.
• FedUp - A Flying Delivery game by Jeff Ward.
• Dressed Delivery - Three women embark on a journey to find a place in life.
• Delivering Parcelman - Your good friend Travelling Salesman has introduce you to a Parcel delivery job. Will you do your job well or will you get fired?
• Flipping Finches - You are a finch known as the flip master. You always flip when turning in the air. You need to deliver a parcel. Hopefully you can deliver it intact!
• Haul and Pray - “I am only accepted as long as I am useful. If I don’t earn my keep, if I don’t constantly prove my worth, I might as well just disappear. And wouldn’t that be better for everyone?”
• B.H.M.D.S - Black Hole Manipulation Delivery System. A simple game about manipulating gravity to get your packets flying to the right places.
• Bundle Beeline - Deliver packages throughout Bundle’s shift to her valuable Daintree Delivery customers! But be careful, as the shift continues, expected delivery times will speed up! And don’t even think about dropping the merchandise!
• Knotty Network - The internet may just be a series of tubes, but someone has to make sure the tubes go to the right place! Spin and swap the pieces on the board to build connections from the messages at the bottom of the board to the recipients waiting at the top.

Some Library Releases

• awslambda-hl 0.0.2
• jans 0.1.0
• TeaScript 1.0.1
• tokentree 1.2.10
• test-adapter 2.0.5
• hammerspoon-hx 1.1.3
• hxnet 0.0.1
• flixel-addons 3.1.1
• clink-externs 0.2.0
• astar 2.1.3
• 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

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

• Null exception when casting with inheritance of depth 2+ issue.