Spotlight Web Games

2017-11-04 00:00:00 2017-11-05 00:00:00 America/Toronto Spotlight Web Games In this one day event on Web Gaming, we're diving into the latest tips, tricks, and techniques from some of the top creators in the field today. Toronto FITC Toronto

Presentation

Building Performant Games for the Web

November 4 2017, 4:45 - 5:30pm Room: KOFFLER HOUSE

Gaming
JavaScript
Performance

Overview

You’ve created a game with fun, addictive gameplay. But if it takes minutes to load and exhibits poor performance, your audience will go elsewhere. This presentation walks through many performance-related pitfalls facing HTML5 game developers, shows how to identify them and suggests some smart solutions.

Objective

To help you build faster loading, better performing games for the web

Target Audience

Game developers who want to build games for the web, ideally using WebGL

Assumed Audience Knowledge

Some knowledge of game development and web technologies (including JavaScript and WebGL)

Five Things Audience Members Will Learn

  1. Capabilities of the PlayCanvas game engine
  2. How to profile games and identify and fix problems
  3. How to optimize load time
  4. How to achieve great performance on both the CPU and GPU
  5. How to scale games to different device types