Play faster and longer: How Square Enix maximized Android* performance and battery life with Hitman:Go

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Cristiano Ferreira, Intel Francis Pétrin, Square Enix Montréal

March 03, 2015

Play Faster and Longer: How Square-Enix Montréal Maximized Android

Performance and Battery Life with Hitman GO


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Hitman GO

iOS + Android: 7000+ devices


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Hitman GO

Editor’s choice: iOS App Store Google Play


Hitman GO


Hitman GO


Established 2011

Mandate: Create the next installment in the Hitman franchise

Plot twist: Switched to mobile development in 2013

Square Enix Montréal


Engine Selection


Iteration time

Multi-platform

Community support

Experience

Engine Selection


Technical challenges

Asset creation Multi-platform development


Asset creation

Asset creation


Asset creation

Missing picture (HMA model)


Static lighting

1. Baked lightmaps

2. Quads for shadows

Merged geometry

Limiting post-process effects

Drawcalls, drawcalls, drawcalls

Optimizations


Level creation process




Pros:

Allowing designers to author levels

Parallelizing art production

Cons:

A lot of waste! Only used around 35% of all assets

Multiple steps to support lightmaps



Technical challenges

Multi-platform development


Don’t tunnel vision your main SKU!

Abstract early and often! First party authentication

Achievements, leaderboards

Cloud save



Design your interfaces with change in mind

Performance and memory limitations Low and high resolution configuration



Leverage your tech



Empower your developers

Prepare for multi-platform early

Choose technology that enables you as creators

Takeaways


x86 Devices and targeting native architecture

Live game profiling demo with free profiling tools!

Topics


46 million Intel based tablets shipped in 2014

As of Q2’14, Intel took #2 position in tablet AP MSS with 15%, behind only to Apple

Bay Trail Devices


Intel Atom is powering the only Android TV device on the market

Nexus Player + x86


Partnerships with Industry Leaders


Free with all versions of Unity

Unity did all of the hard work

By default, Unity will generate a ‘FAT APK’ that supports both ARMv7 and x86 devices

Full Unity support for x86 Android in 4.6


Adding x86 support is a small increase to the APK size

Binary Type Angry Bots APK Size

x86 or ARM 24.5 MB

FAT (x86 and ARM) 31.5 MB


Targeting the correct hardware

Angry Bots on an Android x86 device:

ARM version x86 version Diff

FPS 35 46 31%

CPU Load Per Frame .71% .48% 48%

Power Per Frame 28 mA / Frame 19 mA / Frame 46%


Targeting the correct hardware

Hitman GO on an Android x86 device:


FPS 53.3 60 14.6%

CPU Load Per Frame 0.4% 0.3% 21.5%

Power Per Frame 16.5 mA / Frame 15.6 mA / Frame 6.3%


Targeting the correct hardware is important

School of Dragons on an Android x86 device:


FPS 17 43 146%

CPU Load Per Frame 2.1% 1.1% 87.6%

Power Per Frame 56.9 mA / Frame 30.2 mA / Frame 88.1%


If creating a standard Android project

• Add x86 as a build target in the Application.mk file in the jni directory.


Live Demo


Many new devices and customers!

Hitman GO! is awesome and you should get it now!

Get the tools (URLs are coming – get ready!)

Summary


@Cristianohh

– DM / Tweet at me – I’ll lend help and profile your app!

Meet up!

– Unity Game Programming and Profiling - End of west bridge

Graphics Performance Analyzer / Samples!

Target x86 today!

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Play faster and longer: How Square Enix maximized Android* performance and battery life with Hitman:Go