From 8 Hours to 45 Minutes: Scaling Unity for Large-Scale Game Production on 'Dawn of War IV'

Attendees will gain a practical understanding of how large Unity projects behave at scale and how build times are tightly coupled with overall project structure. Key takeaways include: • How to break down and measure build pipelines to identify the true bottlenecks instead of optimizing the wrong systems • Why build times are often a symptom of deeper structural issues (scene structure, asset dependencies, content organization) • Concrete techniques to reduce build times dramatically, including incremental build strategies, dependency control, and pipeline restructuring • How to structure large numbers of scenes and assets without causing exponential build costs • Common pitfalls in Unity projects that silently increase build times • Trade-offs between flexibility, modularity, and build performance • Lessons learned from real-world failed optimizations and misleading assumptions