A Performance Mindset for Everyone - How Hardware Restrictions imposes Design Restrictions

Performance and optimization are very important topics in game development, that not many actually know how to handle. But developing a game performance oriented from the get go will help the production by a landslide, as the restrictions that come with it, ripple through all disciplines. All. Not just tech. Even Art, even QA, even Design. And then sacrifices have to be made, no one is ready to make. What good is developing the best game when you cannot ship it, as it cannot run on any platform? In this talk, that will be light on the technical side, I will discuss how the whole team can train their understanding about performance and may gain enough foresight to detect potential issue that might happen later on to act accordingly.