The GameDev Guru

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Here's a question for those of you who develop for Oculus VR. How much do you really know about the Oculus CPU and GPU hardware levels? Let's see what these hardware levels are doing to your game.

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The GameDev Guru

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Unity Job System will squeeze them all, right? But what if Unity was over-milking your CPU? 1 core, 2 cores, 4 cores, 8 cores, 16 cores! Who's got more? The more cores, the better. Yeah, probably. Would that be a problem?

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Unity Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

Find out how Unity is changing its engine development methodologies to provide you with the most stable builds.

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The GameDev Guru

MAY 12, 2022

Discover the performance challenges of crowd rendering & how to render thousands of character in Unity within your tight performance budget

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The GameDev Guru

MARCH 20, 2022

Make your expensive scripts cost nothing while they are offscreen

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Logic Simplified

JULY 24, 2023

Researchers, professionals or game app developers all need to remain up-to-date with the recent advancements as well as features of the Unity engine to create and enjoy the best games possible. Some popular games built with Unity include Angry Birds 2 and Pokémon Go”. Unity 2022.2.11

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Game From Scratch

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The engine is making some pretty big performance claims, specifically 10x the performance of Unity! GameFromScratch.com Ultra Engine Released In Early Access Ultra Engine, a new game engine from the creators of the Leadwerks game engine and the Ultra App Kit UI library was just released in early access.

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The GameDev Guru

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Learn how to stop your current raycasts from stealing performance and upgrade them to the new era of Unity raycast commands that finally scale

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Unity is a leading game development engine used by about 70% of game developers globally. But what languages does Unity support? Well, determining which programming language to use for Unity game development can be challenging. Join us as we review the top five coding languages compatible with the Unity development engine.

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AWS Games

MARCH 8, 2024

Unity , which is one of the popular game engines, is widely used for mobile applications that run on smartphones. Unity is used for use cases beyond games, and these new use cases may not run on traditional game platforms, so being able to build for a wide variety of platforms is critical.

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iXie gaming

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Unity Test Framework Unity is a popular game development engine. It is mostly used for testing Unity games. This test framework supports integration and unit testing, helping you identify performance issues and bugs. The Unity test framework has features like test fixtures, play mode tests, and assertions.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Unity Test Tools Unity is one of the most used game engines globally, with about 70% of developers using it for mobile game development. One of the test tools offered by Unity is the Unity Test Runner, which promotes the creation and execution of tests. To track down issues in your source code.

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Unity Blog

JULY 11, 2023

Discover ways to use the Unity Profiler to investigate performance bottlenecks in your program and how to fix them.

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iXie gaming

APRIL 15, 2024

Testing your game for performance is vital in game QA. It helps you identify and address issues that may hinder your game performance. However, game performance testing has evolved, with new approaches to performance testing emerging over time due to the proliferating nature of the gaming industry.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 17, 2023

Unity, a widely adopted game engine, plays a pivotal role in empowering aspiring game developers in making great gaming experiences, thanks to its user-friendly interface and strong community support. But where does one start with game development on Unity? Learn C# Unity uses C# as its primary scripting language.

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Game Development for Beginners

JULY 8, 2023

In Unity, lists are more powerful that arrays and are easier to perform data operations on. In this tutorial, we will try to understand what are lists and how to use them in Unity. Lists are often confused with arrays due of their similarities. But lists offer more functionality compared to arrays. What are lists. Read more

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Cocos

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Our team is looking for a new home after what happened to Unity. Over at Godot reddit, someone posted a detailed break-down of why Godot’s engine bindings will result in some bad performance. We’re trying out Cocos Creator and liking it.

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Cocos

MARCH 17, 2024

Familiar with resources, memory, and performance optimization; Familiar with code encryption and security, and have experience in cross-platform and cross-browser compatibility; Proficient in using mainstream engines such as CocosCreate, Cocos2dx, Unity, laya, and erget; Proficient in native H5, Android, and iOS development; Experienced in large-scale (..)

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Game Development for Beginners

MARCH 26, 2023

In our last tutorial on Unity lights, we learnt that baked lights do not affect dynamic objects. You can very well use a real time light to solve this issue but having multiple real time lights in your scene can really affect the performance. Also, gameobject are affected only by direct light in case of. Read more

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Logic Simplified

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The engine will greatly affect the design, performance and overall quality of your game. You'll learn: How to evaluate the engine's performance Assess its learning curve, gauge the strength of its community, review its licensing options. Benchmark scores are an effective way to assess the engine's performance.

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Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Unity has a rich and sophisticated animation system for the game development process , also referred to as ‘ Mecanim ’. Unity Animation System lets them bring their game characters and objects to life by animating their every movement, move, and visual effects. You can also create them straight away in Unity using the Animation window.

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Game Development for Beginners

AUGUST 7, 2023

Unity’s particle system is very effective way to create visual effects, but is limited by performance. To overcome this limitation, Unity released the VFX graph (Visual Effect Graph) package to unleash the power of visual effects inside Unity engine.

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The GameDev Guru

MAY 18, 2020

Do you know which parts of your scene are causing your GPU performance bottlenecks? Well, I have a tool to help you with Unity GPU Performance profiling: RenderDoc. So you know your game is heavy on the GPU and you're ready to optimize it. But wait, where exactly do YOU start optimizing?

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Game Errors

JANUARY 26, 2023

Assassin’s Creed Unity is reported by many players to encounter a lot of crashes. Assassin’s Creed Unity random crash and crashes every 15 minutes are also reported issues that are making the game unplayable. Why does Assassin’s Creed Unity keep crashing? GHz or AMD FX-8350 @ 4.0 GHz or AMD FX-8350 @ 4.0

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Unity Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

The Ziva team is always striving to provide better performance, and – with this update to 2.1 – has improved the quality of the simulations as well as general ease of use for this Unity tool.

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The GameDev Guru

OCTOBER 21, 2019

You spend infinite amount of time optimizing your Unity UI. But, all it takes to really screw up performance is a sneaky modification on a tiny attribute of an almost invisible Canvas UI element. And when that happens, not even Unity UI Profiling will save you from dropping frames. Are you ready for the road ahead?

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Game From Scratch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Doubling Unreal Engine Performance on M1/M2 Mac The Apple M1 (and later M2) chips were a big step forward in performance on MacOS. We also … Doubling Unreal Engine Performance on M1/M2 Mac Read More The post Doubling Unreal Engine Performance on M1/M2 Mac appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Cocos

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

I have been playing unity for quite a while and just come to cocos creator recently. GC spike” has been an important performance concern in unity, so pooling is using extensively to tackle that, and it’s recommended to reduce GC alloc as much as possible. Do you guys often see GC impacting your performance?

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Cocos

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Our team is looking for a new home after what happened to Unity. Over at Godot reddit, someone posted a detailed break-down of why Godot’s engine bindings will result in some bad performance. Will we run into similar performance bottlenecks outlined in the article while using Cocos Creator on Android / iOS? Thank you!

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iXie gaming

MAY 3, 2024

Join us as we explore the intricacies of testing Nintendo Switch games, ensuring optimal performance and compatibility. The games are usually built using engines such as Unreal Engine and Unity. These kits provide performance analysis and debugging tools, facilitating the testing process. The outcome?

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The GameDev Guru

JANUARY 20, 2020

Here's how you should select the compression settings for your Unity Addressable Groups and Asset Bundles to reduce wasted performance and storage cost

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Game Development for Beginners

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Unity is a feature rich game engine and there is no one definite way to do anything. But learning some Unity tips can help you optimize the workflow and game performance. You can come up with your own logical way to make your game. In this article, we will see the top 5 tips that. Read more.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Traditionally, game testing has been a manual process, where testers play the game, perform actions, and observe the results to find issues. These scripts can be designed to perform specific actions, test scenarios, or execute a series of predefined test cases. Examples: Game Driver, Poco Driver, Alt Unity 2.3.

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The GameDev Guru

MAY 11, 2020

In this post, I'll show you how to know if your game performance is suffering from too many Unity draw calls and what to do about it.

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GamesIndustry.biz

AUGUST 3, 2023

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Unity has released its financial results for the three months that ended June 30, 2023, and saw revenues grow significantly thanks in large part to the numbers reflecting the addition of IronSource to the business last November. Read more

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Jaunty Bear Games

APRIL 5, 2023

The Unity engine and Godot are two popular game development engines that have gained significant traction in recent years. In this blog post, we will take a closer look at Unity engine vs Godot in 2023. Unity supports a wide range of platforms, including PC, mobile, and consoles.

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Cocos

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Our team is looking for a new home after what happened to Unity. Over at Godot reddit, someone posted a detailed break-down of why Godot’s engine bindings will result in some bad performance. We’re trying out Cocos Creator and liking it.

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