1. Flash Online Conference #8
Why we created our own Flash platform,
and why you should care.
Jean-Marc Le Roux
CEO and co-founder of Aerys
Creator of Minko (http://minko.io)
@promethe42
jeanmarc@aerys.in

2. What’s up?
 Minko selected by NVIDIA for the Early Stage Challenge
 150 competitors, 12 finalists
 GTC Conference in San Jose, March 24-27

3. What is the Flash platform?
« Flash…. Woohoooooo…. Savior of the universe ! »

4. Tools
 IDEs
 Flash Builder
 Flash Develop
 IntelliJ
…
 Flash CC

5. Programming Languages
 ActionScript 3.0
 MXML
 AGAL

6. VM + Runtimes
Application
 Flash Player
Flash Runtime
ActionScript VM
 AIR (Adobe Integrated
Runtime)
Core Library
ANE
OS

7. Why I (we?) love the Flash Platform
 Great tools!
 A lot of free things.
 Develop once, deploy everywhere
 Real programming for the web
 OOP
 Proper IDE
 The community

8. Then what are the problems?
 Adobe is less commited than we are…
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No evangelists.
Only two major features/evolutions announced.
No work on Flash Builder or the AS3 language.
Growing number of unsupported platforms.
No actual plan to solve performance issues.
 We already invested a lot of money in Flash.
 Should we continue and why? Should you?
 We’ve been asking for some features for the past 2 years…
 Bad PR make it a bad tech, despite all the love.
 Our customers don’t want Flash. Period.

9. How can we solve it?

10. by

11. 3D, Everywhere.
Deliver engaging, interactive and rich 3D content and applications on
desktops, mobiles and the web.

12. Minko Enterprise
Cloud. Light. Mobile.
 It’s like Dropbox for 3D files
 Visualize, share, annotate, collaborate…
 On mobiles, tablets, the web and desktops
 Exclusive 3D streaming algorithms
 Load and display 3D files up to 200 times faster
“We chose Minko because its exclusive compression algorithms help
us distributing cutting edge 3D content on mobiles and the web.”
Gaël Seydoux, Chief of the NBO lab at

13. Minko Studio
Design. Integrate. Live.
 Compatible with all major 3D CAO/design tools
 77+ supported file formats
 What You See Is What You Get
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Physics
Animations
Lights
Materials
....
…

14. Minko Engine
Mobile. Web. Native.
 Develop once, deploy everywhere
 The power of native, the reach of the
web
“We chose Minko to be the 3D engine in one of our new Flash-based games
because we think it’s a highly professional […] solution in terms
of development ecosystem and high performance.”
André Weissflog, Head of Development at
 Open source, with enterprise-class
support
Skyrama 2 by BigPoint

15. International Gaming References

16. Minko VS Flash
Application
Application
Flash Runtime
Minko 3
ActionScript VM
Lua VM
Core Library
ANE
OS
Core Framework & Plugins
OS

17. Flexible
Application
Application
Flash Runtime
Minko
ActionScript VM
Lua VM
Core Library
ANE
OS
Core Framework & Plugins
OS

18. Open Source
Application
Application
Flash Runtime
Minko
ActionScript VM
Lua VM
Core Library
ANE
OS
Core Framework & Plugins
OS

19. Customizable
Application
Application
Flash Runtime
Minko
ActionScript VM
Lua VM
Core Library
ANE
OS
Core Framework & Plugins
OS

20. Supported Platforms
Platforms
Flash
Minko
Windows
YES
YES
WinRT / Windows 8 UI / Windows Store
NO
YES
OS X
YES
YES
Linux Desktop (Ubuntu, SteamOS, TVs…)
NO
YES
Linux Server
NO
YES
Partly (only graphics)
YES
iOS
YES
YES
Android
YES
YES
Flash player
YES
WIP
Windows Phone
NO
WIP
HTML5

21. Minko coming to Windows Phone!
 Windows Phone 8.1 only
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But all existing Windows
Phones should be supported!

Games have a big success
on the Windows Store.
Windows Store, Downloads per category – Worldwide, Jan. 2014

22. Parallelization
 Workers
 Threads (except for HTML5)
 Coroutines (Lua)

23. Feature comparison
Feature
Flash
Minko
IDEs
Flash Builder, Flash Develop, FDT, IntelliJ
Visual Studio, Xcode, Eclipse
Compiler
ASC 2.0, mxmlc
GCC, LLVM
Shader programming
AGAL
GLSL
User Interface
DisplayList, Flex
HTML5, CSS, SVG
3D editor
Minko Studio
2D editor
Flash CC
Flash CC, Edge, Google Web Designer
Programming languages
ActionScript 3.0, MXML
C, C++, Lua, Javascript, HTML5
Media
Video, Sound, Webcam
Video, Sound
Integrated Physics
Bullet
3D engine
Minko Engine
Supported file formats
5+
70+
Collaboration
Creative Cloud
Minko Enterprise
Parallelism
Workers
Workers, Threads, Coroutines

24. Standard/open source features
Feature
Flash
Minko
IDEs
Flash Develop
Eclipse
Compiler
ASC 2.0
GCC, LLVM
Shader programming
GLSL
User Interface
HTML5, CSS, SVG
3D editor
2D editor
Programming languages
C, C++, Lua, Javascript, HTML5
Media
Video, Sound
Integrated Physics
Bullet
3D engine
Minko Engine
Supported file formats
70+
Collaboration
Parallelism
Workers, Threads, Coroutines

25. Is it really ready?
SoccerPun.ch comming to HTML5 and native iOS/Android!

26. About SoccerPun.ch
 Lots of important game-related features
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3D graphics
Physics
Animations
AI
Gamepad
…
 Developped in 2 days using Minko 2 and
AS3
– Entirely re-developped in C++/Lua
 Should be one of the most advanced
WebGL game so far
– Then we can juge whether HTLM5 is ready or
not for games

27. What hope for AS3 lovers?

28. AS3 VM integration
Application
Application
Flash Runtime
Minko
ActionScript VM
Core Library
Lua VM
ANE
OS
AS3 VM
Javascript VM
Core Framework & Plugins
OS

29. AS3 bindings for Minko
 avmplus
– https://github.com/adobe-flash/avmplus
– Source code for the Actionscript virtual machine
– Delivered by Adobe!
 Redtamarin
– https://code.google.com/p/redtamarin/
– Based on Tamarin
 Lua VM in the browser using Javascript
– http://showcase.minko.io/lua-scripts/index.html
– It could be the same with AS3!

30. Forking Crossbridge (C++ => AS3 compiler)
 Not supported by Adobe anymore despite it has « real potential »
 Yet it’s the best tool to bring « premium gaming » to the Flash platform
– Decades of AAA games and tools in C++
– AAA game industry leaders use C++
 Solution
– Fork Crossbridge and make it a community driven project
– Fork Emscripten (C++ => Javascript compiler) to support AS3/AVM2

31. Conclusion
 Minko 3 has most of the feature the Flash platform has
– Plus a lot of exclusive ones you’ll love
 We need YOU!
– 2D engine
– C++  AS3 bindings
– Crossbridge fork to target the Flash Player with C++
 Public beta coming next month
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New website
50+ tutorials
10+ example projects
800 000 lines of code

32. THANK YOU!

33. Aerys US
Institut Mines-Télécom Silicon Valley
NASA Research Park
Moffett Field
CA 94035 Mountain View
USA
Aerys Europe
Jean-Marc Le Roux
CEO
Warren Seine
CTO
Ymane Amrane
Sales Manager
jeanmarc@aerys.in
+336 20 56 45 78
warren@aerys.in
+336 79 51 64 66
ymane@aerys.in
+339 72 28 55 83
15 rue Jean-Baptiste Berlier
Hall B
75013 Paris
France
Customer service
+33 805 690 489
Monday to Friday, from 9:00 to 17:00 UTC
hello@aerys.in
http://aerys.in

34. http://minko.io