The Horde (Work In Progress)

THE HORDE

This is a small portfolio project meant to showcase different optimization techniques in the Unity Engine. It consists of one top-down shooter scene with rapidly accumulating enemies and bullets, and a toolkit menu with various optimization tweaks the player can toggle to see the difference in performance for themselves. A stats display screen is also available to provide a more detailed look at the game's performance.

OPTIMIZATION FEATURES

• Object Pooling
• Static Batching
• GPU Instancing
• Burst Compiling
• Level of Detail (LOD)
• Simplified enemy pathing using local avoidance instead of NavMesh

HOW TO RUN PROJECT

• WASD or Arrow Keys to move the player
• the Toolkit menu allows most of the optimization features mentioned above to be toggled on and off
• WARNING: to be on the safer side, avoid toggling off all the optimization features as it may cause the game to crash

MORE INFO

• This project was made using the Unity engine and coded entirely in C#
• for more detailed information on the codebase and the optimization techniques used, check out the GitHub repo