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For games, performance is everything. Users aren't going stick around through choppy frame rates and long load times. If your game isn't fast and responsive, then they're going to go play someone else's game. It's as simple as that. Pro Unity Performance shows you how to use Unity to deliver reliable performance, smooth framerate, and superb player experience across the most popular platforms. After reading this book you will know how to get the most from the target platform and speed up your project, so your users will not need to wait. This book covers all the most important performance and optimization techniques in Unity, such as reducing GPU and CPU bottlenecks, controlling asset loading, and streamlining rendering. With Pro Unity Performance, you’ll quickly master all aspects of Unity performance including mastering the Unity Profiler, optimizing game physics routines, compressing and bundling audio and graphics assets, particle system performance tips and tricks, building fast shaders, tweaking scripts for best practice, and much more. Using practical hands-on examples, you can start using all of these really cool features and performance techniques within your existing Unity projects now. Better-performing apps mean happier users, better reviews and, eventually, more money for you as the game developer.