Zhang Xin
CEO & Co-founder of Shanghai Youhu Co. Ltd. (UWA)
Zhang Xin graduated from a major CAD & CG lab in Zhejiang University and holds a PhD in Science. His main research interests are CG and Digital Geometry Processing. He joined Shanda Games as a game development engineer in July 2011, and went on to participate in the development of a 3D MMO gaming engine and the creation of several mobile and browser games based on the Unity engine. In October 2012, Xin became part of the Unity team in China, taking over the position of technical support manager. His main responsibilities there involved development, support, and training in fields related to Unity technology. In August 2015, after years of rewarding and all-encompassing experience with the Unity engine, he founded Shanghai Youhu Co. Ltd. (UWA), an in-depth technical-counselling platform made for game developers and those working with VR.
Saving Months on Optimization in Mobile Game Development
Performance optimization is something almost every game development team gets migraines over—but it is unavoidable. Optimization occurs in the final 20% of the game development process, yet it can take up 80% of the development timeline.
This is why UWA will be sharing its experience and data accumulated in the past two years of perfomance optimization for many games. Developers using Unity will find UWA’s actual experiences in advanced optimization quite helpful. The talk will involve games such as the classic battle fantasy game Ji Wushuang (極無雙─本格戰鬥幻想) and Ragnarok Online: Eternal Love (仙境傳說 RO：守護永恆的愛), and performance analysis of subjects such as important modules concerning the Unity engine (rendering, loading, UI, etc.), game logic, and memory management. Through this discussion, UWA aims to help fellow developers dramatically increase optimization efficiency and master quick-positioning and optimizing-performance problems encountered in the development process of Unity mobile games.
* This session will be conducted in Mandarin.