Adobe: Changing the game

Changing the game
December 8th 2012
Thibault Imbert | Sr. Product Manager (Graphics, ActionScript, Adobe Scout)
@thibault_imbert | bytearray.org

Friday, December 7, 12

The audience
Approximately 600M people
have already opted into using
the silent auto update feature.

600M
is
more
than
2
#mes
the

number
of
Xbox360,
PS3
and
Wii

ever
sold.

We can update these 600 million
people to new versions of the
runtime in less than 48 hours.

facebook.com/
AngryBirds

9 of the top 10
games
* This list was compiled by looking
at the top games on Facebook
with more than 100,000 monthly
active users and giving priority to
those games with the highest user
satisfaction scores.

facebook.com/
KingsRoadGame

Adobe AIR for
Standalone apps No friction
Reuse ActionScript 3 code between
desktop and mobile targets.

No shared runtime is required when
packaged on mobile devices.

Same code (AS3)
No friction
*

Flash Player for
Desktop browsers

* Chrome only

FLASH PLAYER 11.4 / AIR 3.4

• Concurrency (ActionScript workers)
• Support for more hardware-accelerated video cards
• Compressed texture with alpha support
• StageVideo.attachCamera
• Camera.copyToByteArray/Camera.copyToVector/drawToBitmapData
• LZMA runtime compression/decompression on ByteArray
• AIR iOS Push Notifications
• AIR direct deployment (without iTunes)



• Shared memory support for Concurrency (ActionScript workers)
• Debug stack trace in release builds of Flash Player



• Query Graphics Data
• Multiple SWF support for iOS
• Fullscreen UI permission dialog improvement

On Labs!
labs.adobe.com


JDI: TINY APIS BIG IMPACT

• MovieClip.isPlaying
• DisplayObjectContainer.removeChildren
• FrameLabel events
• No BitmapData size limitation
• ApplicationDomain.getQualifiedDefinitionNames()
• BitmapData.drawWithQuality
• Native JPEG/PNG/JPEG-XR Compression
• MouseEvent.RELEASE_OUTSIDE
• Cubic bezier
• ...


Demo

Query
Workers


just converted a small project to Starling+AIR and am getting
solid 60fps... super impressive.

I'm quite impressed. Am doing a 3-month project using AIR +
Starling and I'm totally looking forward to it thanks to this.
Powered by
Got 60fps on Mobile & Desktop thanks to @gamua (Starling), Nape, & AIR
@gamebuilders is close to release now! #gamedev t.co/usISHxvo Stage3D
Use one set of platform agnostic
GPU APIs to target the browser and
mobile devices (iOS, Android)


Powered by
Stage3D

Ruby Blast

Powered by
Stage3D

Smart Aliens


Over 20k AIR apps on the iOS App Store and Google Play


Top grossing
Bingo Bash
apps on App
Stores

Song Pop

Machinarium


That’s for the past year.


Now, what did just happen this week?


On December 3rd, 6:30pm, we introduced...


Adobe Game Developer Tools

Gaming SDK FlasCC Adobe Scout

Create Extend your reach Profile


It is hard today to get started.


Friction

FlashDevelop + Starling + Air 3.2 + Stage3D + Android = Love!

1. Download and install the Android SDK (http://developer.nvidia.com/tegra-android-development-pack)
2. Install AIR 3.2 Release Candidate on windows (http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplatformruntimes/air3-2/)
3. Install AIR 3.2 Release Candidate on android device (http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplatformruntimes/air3-2/)
4. Download AIR 3.2 SDK (http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplatformruntimes/air3-2/)
5. Overwrite AIR 3.2 SDK over the flex folder of FlashDevelop (C:FlashDevelopToolsflexsdk)
6. Download, install and start FlashDevelop (http://www.flashdevelop.org/)
7. Create a new Air Mobile As3 App
8. Change aplication.xml
a. <application xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/3.2">
a. <fullScreen>true</fullScreen>
b. <visible>true</visible>
c. <renderMode>direct</renderMode>
d. <aspectRatio>landscape</aspectRatio>
e. <autoOrients>false</autoOrients>
9. Project → Properties
a. Output (tab)
i. Platform → Air Mobile
ii. Version → 3.2
iii. Dimensions → 1280x800 (This aﬀects only the swf version for desktop)
iv. Framerate → 60
b. Sdk (tab)
1. Choose the path where you copied the AIR 3.2 SDK
c. Compiler Options
1. Additional Compiler Options → -swf-version=13 (-swf-version=15 works too)
10. Change Run.bat
a. Target → choose your target type
b. Desktop → choose your target resolution
11. Create a certificate for Android using /bat/CreateCertificate.bat and wait a minute
12. Download and copy last Starling library (http://gamua.com/starling/) to your project folder
13. Write your 3D game / app


Friction

14. In your Android device be sure to check on your USB debugging and allow Unknown sources
a. Menu → Settings → Applications → Unknown sources
b. Menu → Settings → Applications → Development → USB debugging
15. Connect your Android to your computer and let the computer install the necessary drivers
16. Publish (ctrl + enter)
17. If you get a “Fatal error: The application lost the device context!” just put
Starling.handleLostContext = true; before you create an instance of Starling.
18. Enjoy it!

Sweet!
It just compiles an
empty SWF!


Frictionless, easy to get started

We should go from 18 steps to 3:

1. Download Flash Builder
2. Open a sample provided
3. Compile and test


AIR SDK Frameworks Extensions Docs ATF
Free
AIR SDK 3.5 Game Center Link to resources ATF command-
Product Store ATF Documentation line tools
Social ANE Documentation
StageAd Code samples
BetaTesting Starling
Away3D
Feathers

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MacOS (.dmg) Windows (.exe)


Starling
Starling is an open-source, 2D
framework that makes it easy to
create GPU-accelerated games and
applications.

starling-framework.org

var hero:Sprite = new Sprite();
hero.x = 200;
hero.y = 200;
hero.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, loop);
addChild(hero);

Free eBook available for download at O’Reilly:
http://oreil.ly/PPsohC


Demo


Feathers
Create 2D UI on the GPU with Feathers.
A lightweight open-source 2D UI
component extension for Starling.

feathersui.com


Away3D
Lightweight open-source 3D
framework. Huge community
contributing.

away3d.com


Delta Strike: "Fleet" Gameplay Demo


The stack
Feathers (2D) All of these frameworks are
supported by Adobe.

By supporting these, we also want
to make sure they integrate
Integration between each other beautifully.

Away3D (3D) Starling (2D)

Open-source, free and vibrant community


FlasCC
Bring your native C/C++ games
to the browser to reach a billion
people.

AS3 Bytecode
C/C++
LLVM bitcode (.abc)
(llvm-gcc)
on AVM2


FlasCC
Native code runs securely and cross-
platform in the ActionScript 3 Virtual
Machine.

AS3 Bytecode
C/C++ LLVM
(.abc)
(llvm-gcc) bitcode
on AVM2


Unity Flash export
Bring your Unity games to the
browser reaching millions of
people.

unity3d.com/unity/publishing/ﬂash


VM only

Today, using the profiler in Flash Builder only exposes VM related
information.

Debugger builds only
Profiling
The existing Flash Builder profiler relies on debugger builds
(performing slower than release builds). Limitations today with Flash
Player and AIR
Not stable

Complex content can also crash your profiling

No in-context testing

Being able to use release builds allows easy in-context testing.

No visualization

There is no existing tool allowing developers to easily spot
issues in their content.

No mobile profiling

There is no out of the box solution to profile mobile content
(AIR) today.


Adobe Scout
Revolutionize the way you profile
Flash content across desktop and
mobile devices.

Monocle exposes granular
information never exposed
before to Flash developers.

No code instrumentation
needed.

Works with the release Flash
Player and AIR runtime.


Seamless profiling

Configure with Test Profile
Companion App
(App Store/Google Play)


Great, how do I get this?


Future
Longer term plans

Flash Builder
ActionScript “Next”
ASC, AOT, AVM
Graphics


ACTIONSCRIPT PERFORMANCE

Bring ActionScript to the
Introduce concurrency Performance improvements
next level

ActionScript 3 ActionScript 3 ActionScript “Next”

Today Q4 2012 2013
(ActionScript Workers) ASC 2.0 ASC 4.0
Flash Player 11.4/AIR 3.4 Flash Player 11.x/AIR 3.x ActionScript “Next”
(better bytecode,
faster performance)


TOOLING ALIGNMENT

Bring ActionScript to the
Introduce concurrency Performance improvements
next level

ActionScript 3 ActionScript 3 ActionScript “Next”

Today Q4 2012 2013
(ActionScript Workers) ASC 2.0 ASC 4.0
Flash Player 11.4/AIR 3.4 Flash Player 11.x/AIR 3.x ActionScript “Next”
(better bytecode,
faster performance)

Flash Pro CS6 Update Flash Builder 4.7 Flash Builder “Next”
Flash Builder 4.7


ACTIONSCRIPT PERFORMANCE

A great language for game development (and much else)

1. Provide developers with precise controls over execution speed / memory
consumption of their games
2. Exploit modern compiler/VM technology to eliminate the need for tedious, error-
prone performance tweaks
3. Prepare the language for games of the future (functional programming,
concurrency, parallelism)


Graphics


Stage3D “extended” profile
Increased GPU reach Query Graphics (for Sergey!)

Stage3D “constrained” Query Graphics Data Stage3D

Today
Tomorrow After tomorrow
Flash Player 11.4/AIR 3.4
Flash Player 11.6/AIR 3.6 Flash Player 11.7/AIR 3.7


New compression formats
Query Graphics Stage3D “extended” profile
(2D content)

Query Graphics Data Stage3D ATF Format

Tomorrow Tomorrow
Flash Player 11.6/AIR 3.6 Flash Player 11.7/AIR 3.7


New compression formats
Improvements
(2D content)

ATF Format JDIs

Tomorrow Tomorrow
Flash Player 11.7/AIR 3.7 Flash Player 11.x/AIR 3.x


What about these
Standards


gaming.adobe.com


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