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Ludus Beta — A limitless presentation tool for designers.
Ludus is a new presentation tool for creative people, see it as PowerPoint for the 21st century.
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Chris Messina
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Great job on the video--this looks stellar! The smart blocks is so obviously necessary at this point, especially given Sketch's success...! A few thoughts: compatibility with Sketch files and symbols? What's the ability to share and collaborate with others? Can you share smart blocks too? Pricing model?
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@chrismessina Thanks! We plan to work on some Sketch export features pretty soon. About collaboration, the current plan is individual but we are working on a team plan which will allow multiple people to work at the same time on the same presentation. The pricing is here: https://ludus.one/pricing/
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@vinch got it, thanks! Eager to see the collaboration features shape up!
Nice work, @vinch and the Ludus team! Super excited to try out the private beta. Has Ludus been used at any conferences?
@kunalslab Not yet, because we just launched, but I'll give a workshop in Belgium next week and I'll definitely use Ludus :)
Looks beautiful! Can't wait to try it. I really hate using presentation tools, but it's a necessity at my job. Ludos looks like a tool that takes care of all the things I hate about restrictive presentation tools.
Thanks @bramk for hunting Ludus! It feels great to be here!
My name is Vincent Battaglia and I’m a Co-Founder and CTO at Ludus. We are happy to finally show the world what we’ve been working on during the past few months.
Right now, you’re probably wondering why the world needs another presentation tool so we wrote an article to explain why it makes sense to us: https://medium.com/@vinchbat/mee... (tl;dr: sharing and compatibility are not great with desktop apps like PowerPoint or Keynote, web-based apps like Google Slides lack critical features that are very important for designers and don’t allow to easily integrate third-party web contents).
We are currently in private beta but we’ll send invites pretty quickly (within 48 hours max).
Let us know if you have any questions.
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@vinch it's funny that you explained why you called it Ludus but didn't mention the connection to Ready Player One! (If you don't know the connection, you must go read the book!)
@chrismessina Originally, that's the reason why we called it Ludus! RPO is one of my favorite books! Can't wait to see what Steven Spielberg will do with it!
Congrats on shipping Vincent + team! I had the privilege to play around with Ludus a couple weeks back and it's clear a tonne of attention has gone into it. Even at launch it feels super polished, which I'm sure will increase as the team respond to customer feedback.
What I like most about Ludus is that it's just intuitive. It does what you want it to and gets out the way whilst you do it. As any maker will know, delivering an intuitive experience is far from simple, so it impressed me to see this level of polish this early.
WHOA! What a creation, Truly Impressive and yes, limitless. 🤠 You guys just nailed it. Would love to give it a try!
@_ankitsingh Please subscribe to our beta and we'll grant you prioritary access :-)
@_ankitsingh okay, I promise you'll be part of the first wave (but I cannot tell when exactly)
Probably a stupid question, but can we export the file in different formats (GIF, MP4) other than 'PPT'?
@edwarddennisau Right now it's only working in Ludus (on the web). We plan to have an offline mode and a PDF export (just in case of ...).
@vinch Many of your `learn more` links from the user guide are 404ing with "this page knows nothing" — just fyi, homie.
wow, this seems amazing. At our agency, we've used powerpoint, keynote and google slides and never really been satisfied. The features here look amazing. The video does an excellent job of really demonstrating it.
Animation support would be killer.
We're already looking into this as a solution for agency use.
Good work!
@xcast3d Thanks Xavier ! Surely keep us posted on your agency use-case, we're highly interested in it ! And as said elsewhere, animation are part of the roadmap already :-)
@dorian_van_bever @xcast3d Excited for this use case as well. I create at least 3-4 client-facing decks per week with help from designers and account people. I am curious to see how collaboration works with this, especially across disciplines.
This looks absolutely amazing. I didn't understand one thing: can you export the presentations, is going to be an embedded link? How will it work?
@danifeld It will be a link, like when you share a YouTube video and a Medium article. We also have an embed so you can add your presentation to your website.
@lilrkt We are working on a PDF export as we are talking. One important thing to realize though is that it will be a (gracefully) degraded version of the presentation, as it will miss all the integrations (YouTube, Framer, InVision, GIPHY, CodePen, etc.) that are part of what makes us different from all the other presentation tools. At least, this PDF version of the presentation will be a great backup in case you don't have an internet connection where you're supposed to give your talk.
@danifeld is there a way to get the invite code sonner? Have a very important presentation around the corner. Thanks!
It looks great! I look forward to it.
You can change your meta description though.
"The web is full of beautiful ideas and services. Ludus is the first one to provide an easy way to gather them all in a single place."
It doesn't mention slides; sounds more like automated curation.
Looks amazing! Is there any plans to provide a storyboard view - all slides in a single view? Super useful for planning out presentations - sorely missing from Google Slides
@chris_naylor We have that in our roadmap. Right now you have almost that at the bottom of the screen, but it's just a first step :-)
As a heavy and at the same time frustrated Keynote user, I'm pretty interested in this thing. Any plans to add animation support?
@dergachoff This is already on the roadmap, we will keep you posted for sure!
Brilliant product demo, fantastic purpose and looks effortless. Very excited to kick the tires on this one. Curious to learn more about exporting to other presentation formats (for example, Keynote).
Looks fantastic! And THANK YOU for using energising/exciting music for your video, not the bumbling happy chimes that most tech companies are defaulting too. Signed up to BETA for sure. Top execution//
Wow!! This is impressively cool. You've given Powtoon something to chew on. However, I do feel that for your product to get a powerful appreciation by users, your team should engage in some free time samples. These should be listed under EXAMPLES or some appropriate word you may choose. And while you do these samples, attached to them the time it took to complete each one. But it's a remarkable product. Cheers!!
@mou_jb Thanks for your feedback! Indeed, we will provide some tutorials and in the near future, provide assistance to the users who might need some help in the design/production phase.
Hey guys ! First off, great work, looks awesome, can't wait to try it out in the Beta :)
But I think I found a (samll) bug in the presentation viewer : You can't seem to be able to use the arrows keys to navigate through the presentation if you hadn't clicked on it before (or do another action like going to fullscreen or using the "next slide" icon).
After the click it works just fine though
Same, when you click to load the 3D model, you have to click on the "next slide" icon if you wanna move forward (or backward for that matter), the arrow keys won't work otherwise
The blending and overlay options are especially enticing, something I have missed on keynote for a while. Still a lil apprehensive about moving to a whole new presentation software, but would definitely give it a try.
Is there an offline mode for other team members presenting at conferences with unreliable connection speeds?
@roberthuston You can download a PDF version of your presentation. It won't have all the cool integrations but a least you have a backup!