GameDev Conference 2018 Овчаренко Євген “Відеоігри це ефективність”

1. is about being efficient
VideoGames

2. Inefficient Slide
● 100500+ years of gamedev experience
○ Delivery Director, Head of Production, CTO, Team Lead,
Project Manager, Developer, Artist,
● Tons of projects under NDA and even more projects under the
do_not_even_mention kind of NDA.
● Mentoring of artists and development of developers.
● Hundreds of interviews conducted and visited.
● Heard of various technologies and fancy words like:
○ С# С++ .Net Python Lua Pascal English Ukrainian
○ 3dmax Maya Photoshop Excel Notepad
○ Unity Unreal Quake Dota Solitaire
● Had developed own game engine when it was still popular needed
● Fun, proactive, energetic (with redbull), nice to hang around with
professional non-smoker video game developer person.
Some randomphoto --->

3. About meOlder daughter is testing the game during optimization iteration.
(efficient slide)

4. Optimization:
Efficiency or Effectiveness?
Optimization - the action of making the best or most effective use of a situation or resource.

5. GTA V, 2013
Production: 1000 people, 4 years
Around 250 hours of gameplay
Video Game
an effective method to evoke emotions.
Zork, 1978
Production: 3 people for 1 year.
Around 7 hours gameplay

6. Where the efficiency really is?
● Idea?
Design / Narrative / Visuals
● People?
Team / Seniority / Experience
● Production?
Time to market / MVP / Hell
● Runtime performance?
Current Hardware / Future Hardware
● Market performance?
Retention/ LTV / ROI
● ...

7. Production optimizations● Platform requirements
● Content creation
● Own tools
● Custom pipelines
● Level creation
● Plugins / Middleware
● ...

8. Terrain. Lods + MipMap

9. Lods (level of details)

10. Lods (level of details)

11. Lods (level of details)

12. 3ds Max. Tools

13. Photoshop -> Levels

14. Photoshop -> Unity

15. Photoshop -> Unity

16. Photoshop -> Unity

17. Process on Asset Import in Unity

18. Visualize in Unity

19. Bigger levels

20. Paths in Photoshop

21. Unity. Tools

22. 2d animation mesh & atlas

23. Mesh based pipeline, no textures

24. FMOD Removal

25. ● Game size
● Install time
● First time start
● Additional downloads size
● Loading time
● CPU load
● GPU load
● Memory consumption
● Storage bandwidth
● Network bandwidth
● Battery drain
Runtime performance optimizations

26. Colouring game

27. From 420 mb to 71 mb in build size.

28. From 282 mb to 144 mb in RAM usage.

29. UnZip your *.IPA

30. Streaming assets

31. Streaming assets

32. 1024*512 -> 128*128 + Tile Shader

33. Working with Atlases

34. Working with assets

35. class CCostil { … }

36. Object Pools

37. Path.getPointOnPath( w )

38. Public Vector3[] pathBaked;

39. Baked path with no GameObjects

40. Xcode Instruments

41. Xcode Instruments

42. Xcode

43. Memory profiler

44. Memory profiler

45. Memory profiler

46. Memory leak..

47. THANK YOU