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Let me sing you the song of Autodesk Scaleformhttps://twitter.com/macegr/status/1306815933776760832 …

For those not in the know, Scaleform was a UI middleware library developed from work called "Anti-Grain Geometry" by the late Maxim Shemanarev, in conjunction with funding and development by Brendan Iribe and Mike Antonov.

If the latter two names are familiar, it's because they left Scaleform in early 2012 to help form Oculus.

Scaleform was essentially a clean-room implementation of Adobe Flash, including both an ActionScript 2 and ActionScript 3 VM. It was highly utilized in the game industry.

It was used in such titles as GTA IV onward, the Elder Scrolls starting with (I think) Oblivion. Mass Effect. Arkham Asylum. Deus Ex: Human Revolution. The JackBox Party Pack. It had UnrealEngine 3 integration, as well as (briefly) UE4 integration (you're welcome).

The company was a rising star in the middleware market, providing good performance (if you took the time to tune it) and being approachable by artists, given the fact that you could author your entire UI in Adobe Flash.

The company was purchased by Autodesk shortly before I joined in early 2012. To call Autodesk's ownership of the company "chaotic" would be an understatement; almost overnight, it went from a company that could nurture positive developer relationships to profit-seeking.