[Boom]
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.
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