Performance and quality optimization
We’ll collaborate with your team to address performance and quality challenges that you’re facing in game development. We can help with frame rate, memory and file size issues, or provide a general health check on your game code to mitigate unknown challenges ahead.
Game planning and design innovation
Whether you’re getting ready for a new game, or wanting to push the boundaries with Unity, our developers will work with you to help you understand the foundational architecture and build a plan to be successful.
Development acceleration
We help you move towards goals faster by complementing the skillset of your current team or supplementing it in areas where you’re lacking skills or resources. Tackle projects that you thought were out of your reach with development assistance from Unity experts.
Improve game KPIs and player experience
Our in-depth consultations can include playtesting your game and providing actionable game design recommendations to improve gameplay experience and monetization. We provide benchmarking insights against peer games to better understand where improvements need to be made.
Flexible consulting based on your needs
Accelerate Solutions offers three levels of engagements depending on the needs and budget of your team or project.
Consultancy
Accelerate Solutions will analyze your project or workflows and provide guidance and recommendations to your team on how to achieve your desired outcome.
Co-development
Accelerate Solutions deep dives into your project and assigns a Unity developer and/or team to work alongside your existing team to achieve a desired outcome.
Custom development
Accelerate Solutions assigns a Unity team that will lead and execute a project on your behalf, owning it from inception to completion.
Consulting service packages
Check out our packaged consulting engagements designed to target the area where your team requires the most assistance.
Performance and quality optimization packages
Codes, Asset Performance (CAP): A two-week engagement that begins with a three-day deep dive of your code and assets to uncover root causes of performance issues. This will come with an actionable and detailed report with best practice recommendations.
Optimization Accelerator: A four-day sprint with hands-on guidance from a Unity engineer to analyze performance problems identified by the studio and make recommendations on what improvements to implement.
Optimization Strike Team: A four-week engagement with a multidisciplinary team of Unity experts who will provide technical leadership and implementation on a project.
Technical Art Review (TAR): A two-week engagement that begins with a two-day deep dive with a Unity Technical Artist. They will review your project and pipeline and deliver a comprehensive report on how best to ramp up to full production with automated workflows that are efficient and optimized to scale.
Game planning and design innovation packages
Technical Architecture Consulting (TAC): A two-week engagement where a Unity expert will fully assess your project and provide a detailed report with clear next steps and recommendations on how best to build a project architecture. This package is designed to set studios up for success by identifying roadblocks and challenges ahead of time.
Pipeline review: A two-week engagement that begins with a two-day review of your animation or film project and organization. We’ll create a tailored step-by-step plan for incorporating Unity into your pipeline, which will include a roadmap, code samples, and recommendations to optimize pipeline efficiency.
Development acceleration packages
Dedicated Expert Advisor (DEA): An engagement that can last a minimum of six months, this package adds a senior Unity developer to your team. This Unity expert works alongside your team to provide technical architecture and guidance to help you resolve development challenges, while providing access to Unity’s R&D engineering teams.
Custom development packages: An engagement that is customized in scope, staff and duration, designed for studios who are looking for Unity to lead specific project/s. Examples of past projects include but are not limited to: porting to other platforms (mobile, console, PC), optimizing for Next Gen, migrating to Unity, and SDK/Application development.
Game KPIs and player experience packages
Game Audit: A design and data-driven analysis where our designers: playtest your game, compare KPI performance against hundreds of similar games, and provide actionable feedback that covers the early, mid, and late game stages. Each stage we analyze specific game mechanics and make recommendations in areas such as FTUE, and IAP/Ads.
State of Play: A high-level benchmarks-driven analysis that provides an overall ranking of early, mid, and late game performance metrics and overall industry trends relating to your game.
Custom: This could include areas such as analytics assessments, publisher or investor due diligence, market investment analysis, and advice on game design documentation (GDD).
“Beside getting our games to broader, multiplatfom audience, Unity Accelerate Solutions truly helped us take all our games to a higher level.”
“Knowing exactly what was going on under the hood, gave us better ways to analyze processes. Without Unity, we probably wouldn’t have been able to ship the Switch version.”
Frequently asked questions
We have different engagement levels, including custom packages, depending on the needs and budget of a studio. Please contact us for a full list of pricing.
If you are currently subscribed to Integrated Success, you are entitled to one annual Project Review (similar to a TAC or CAP) with your subscription, a service that is delivered by our Accelerate Solutions Games team.
Feel free to reach out to us to discuss your project in greater detail.
You will continue to own 100% of the IP related to any projects that Unity works with you on.
Once you reach out to us, we’ll discuss timing for when a project can be started. Although Unity has many expert engineers, we want to make sure to match you with the right engineering teams for your specific project, which could take time to free up resources to support that.
Yes, the shortest engagement we have is the Optimization Accelerator which lasts four days. All other consultancy engagements are a minimum of two weeks. For co-development and custom development, minimum engagement time is typically six months.
Unity can assist with all aspects of performance and optimization related to your game, including framerate, memory management, binary size, game/level load time, optimizing workflows, hitting specific benchmarks, adding additional polish to your game, and much more.
Once you’ve reached out to our sales team and identified a need, we’ll connect you with our sales engineering team, who will review what you’re looking for in detail to determine which product and outcome is best for you. Once mutually agreed upon, a date will be set for the kickoff of your project.
It depends on the solution that you are interested in. Accelerate Solutions can assist you with migrating your game to the Unity engine. In addition, the game KPIs and player experience packages that we offer are engine-agnostic and can support you regardless of the game engine that you are using.