Learning 2D Game Development with Unity®: A Hands-On Guide to Game Creation

Optimizations

Optimizing your game is a very vital piece of game development and should be addressed early on. It’s something you should continually be thinking about as your Project begins to take shape. Optimizations can often be overlooked as being something of a burden or addressed only toward the end, but ignoring them will cause more headache later on as things begin to bottleneck.

Good optimization boils down to the performance of your game and how smoothly it is able to run. Just as with most things, the fewer complicated moving parts it contains, the less likely it is to have problems or break down. Creating a game works the same way. While we want to have an entertaining experience, we have to find ways of doing so without the cost ...