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Porting to Android - Posted on: 11/9/2017   [StonesThrow]



I'm building a version of Stones Throw for Android.

The biggest challenge when porting games to mobile, is performance. The quality settings are set at bare minimum - no shadows, no effects, only a single light-source, etc. I had to remove the dynamic sky, remove the mini-map, and replace most of the shaders with mobile shaders.

Still, after all those changes, I'm only getting about 15-20fps average. I'm guessing there are just too many objects and draw-calls. I need to achieve at least 30fps frame-rate to play the game smoothly. Aside from performance, all aspects are working well.





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