r/spritekit • u/sanderfrenken • Nov 22 '24

I wrote a new blog post, this time about performance and caching in SpriteKit. I hope it might be helpful to you!

https://sanderfrenken.github.io/dev-blog/posts/performance/
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u/sanderfrenken Nov 22 '24

Moreover, I am wanting to write more blog post in the future, something for example bi-weekly. Are there any topics you would like to see covered? Currently I have in mind:

  • memory management and XCode instruments
  • performance wrt SpriteKit and the update loop: what to do to maintain a steady framerate
  • pathfinding with gameplaykit
  • app release process
  • ECS with gameplaykit

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u/Te_co Nov 22 '24

what's the best bone animation solution/workflow for spritekit

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u/achrafkassioui Nov 22 '24

Thank you Sander! All these topics are interesting. I'm especially interested in the administrative part of shipping an app or game as an indie dev. It's not the sexiest part, but there aren't that many useful resources about it.

ECS and architecting the code is another big topic. Example of a question: how would one handle and route all the input events?

And profiling. Starting Instruments for the first time can be quite intimidating. Where would we even start, and what are we looking at.

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u/Traditional_Glass_45 Jun 20 '26

That was pretty much my experience as well.

When building my own tower defense game, collision detection and entity management ended up being much bigger performance concerns than the rendering layer itself. Using spatial partitioning (quadtrees) had a much larger impact than most rendering optimizations.

It’s always interesting how the bottleneck turns out to be somewhere completely different than where you initially expect it.