SIFU is an action, beat'em up, kung fu game developed by Sloclap and released at the beginning of 2022. After his success on PlayStation consoles and PC, Sloclap requested Artefacts Studio's collaboration to port the game on Nintendo Switch.
As a Technical Artist, I worked on graphic profiling to identify bottlenecks and drive optimization schemes to meet framerate and quality goals.
As a Technical Artist, I worked on graphic profiling to identify bottlenecks and drive optimization schemes to meet framerate and quality goals.
I had the opportunity to work in pair with other Technical Artists, as well as Artists and Programmers from both Artefacts Studio and Sloclap to comply with the Switch's capacity and performances.
The main challenges included: keeping the frame calculation under 33.33ms, avoid memory leaks and reduce shader/geometry complexity while maintaining the art direction and quality as much as possible.