2025/06 - Tech - “Perpetual Game Profiling and Optimisation: Getting your game to run fast and how to keep it there" (Tony Albrecht - Riot Games)

Programme de la formation

Gone are the days when we used to ship a game and then move onto developing the next one. Players now expect improvements, fixes, updates, and new content. But new content doesn’t come free – every addition has a cost. This class will address not only the process of optimising and maintaining performance during the development of a game, but also how to monitor and maintain performance after release - keeping the game running smoothly even as you add more content and more features. We’ll start at the beginning: How do we measure performance? What should we be measuring? When should we be thinking about optimisation? How do we optimise? What do we optimise? We’ll do a few class exercises, working through profiling and optimising some example code. Moving on, we’ll look at maintaining performance. What tools can we use, what should we budget (how/when should we budget), and who should be responsible for performance. We will also look at automated performance testing - how useful is this and what can it tell us? Finally, we’ll address maintaining performance after you ship your game. How can we identify performance degradations on players’ machines? And once we do, how do we fix them? How can we triage performance issues in live games? What performance metrics are useful?  The overarching goal of this Masterclass is to provide attendees with an intuitive understanding of game performance metrics – to know what to measure, when, how to visualise it, and more importantly, how to use that data to identify problems when they occur. Not to mention how to fix those problems when they occur. 2025 June 23rd in Paris - June 25th in Lyon.