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The Loom SDK

Technology for a Post-Apocalyptic LandscapeBen Garney, ben.garney@gmail.com

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The Loom SDK

Technology for a Post-Apocalyptic LandscapeBen Garney, ben.garney@gmail.com

Introduction

Introduction

Who am I?

What’s going on?

Where are we going?

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DEMO GO!

[LoomSDK.com Shot]

DEMO GET!

The Basics

loom new MyApp --example FeathersExample

cd MyApp

loom run --android

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What You Saw...

Mobile first (iOS, Android, Mac, Windows).

Fast workflow.

ActionScript 3 and C++.

Powerful stack.

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History Lesson

Now and Then

Adobe’s focus is creatives...

NOT developers.

Flash in maintenance mode.

Shedding features in favor of security.

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Competitive Landscape

HTML5 + Containers - Sencha, Appcelerator

Open - Moai/Corona/Love/Haxe

Closed - Marmalade/Unity

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Why Build Loom?

Flash did a lot right...

... and very mature...

...but now dead in the water.

Bring wins forward in an open way.

This is the tech I want to use!

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The Case for Loom

Great workflow.

Simple, cheap, open

ActionScript Plus.

Focus on 2D Apps and Games.

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Loom Update

Our Unplanned $1.75M Giveaway

Launched Loom 2/26/2013.

Great response!

~10,000 users.

33 stable releases and counting.

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The Loom SDK

http://github.com/LoomSDK/LoomSDK

Apache 2 License.

Loom Turbo speeds workflow for $5/mo!

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Evolution of Loom

Hardcore Multithreaded C.

Cocos2D X Wrapper.

Starling/Feathers Compatible.

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Development Stack

PBE/PureMVC/Feathers

Loom2D (Starling)

Native/C++/bgfx/ObjC/Java

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LoomScript

ActionScript 3 plus...

Implicit Typing,

Delegates,

Coroutines.

BLAZING fast compiler.

Tiny runtime, full source.

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Showcase

Contraption Maker

Tap A Potato

Hold ‘Em

Loom Hexagon

ScoreKeeper

Axacore

DoubleDoodle

Dolby

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[Contraption Maker Vid]

[Tap a Potato Vid]

Documentation

http://loomsdk.com/docs

loom docs

loom docs Sprite

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[Docs Shot]

[FlashDevelop Shot]

Conclusions

The Post-Flash Landscape

Loom is awesome!

It’s the experience, dummy.

Thanks for Listening!

@bengarney

ben@theengine.co

Try Loom: loomsdk.com

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