# Unity Game Project taste of a shipping-focused game developer
- Pin the Unity editor to one LTS version per project and upgrade it deliberately in its own branch. Confidence: 0.90
- Use Git with Git LFS for binary assets, plus a .gitattributes file and Unity's smart merge tool for scenes and prefabs. Confidence: 0.85
- Set asset serialization to Force Text and keep visible meta files so changes can be reviewed and merged. Confidence: 0.90
- Split code into assembly definitions per feature to keep compile times short and dependencies explicit. Confidence: 0.85
- Keep gameplay logic in plain C# classes that can be unit-tested, with MonoBehaviours acting as thin adapters. Confidence: 0.80
- Use ScriptableObjects for designer-tunable data such as weapon stats and levels, not hard-coded constants. Confidence: 0.85
- Avoid GameObject.Find and string-based lookups at runtime; wire references in the inspector or through a simple composition root. Confidence: 0.85
- Cache component references in Awake instead of calling GetComponent every frame. Confidence: 0.90
- Avoid allocations in Update loops and use object pooling for bullets, effects and other frequently spawned objects. Confidence: 0.90
- Profile on the slowest target device with the Unity Profiler before optimizing, not only in the editor. Confidence: 0.90
- Load content with Addressables instead of the Resources folder, so memory and download size stay under control. Confidence: 0.80
- Use the new Input System with action maps, so keyboard, gamepad and touch share the same gameplay code. Confidence: 0.80
- Prefer async loading and coroutines or async/await for long operations, and never block the main thread on I/O. Confidence: 0.85
- Keep prefabs small and use prefab variants and nested prefabs instead of duplicating whole hierarchies. Confidence: 0.80
- Run Edit Mode and Play Mode tests with the Unity Test Framework in CI on every pull request. Confidence: 0.75
- Build every target platform automatically in CI, such as with GameCI, so broken platform builds are caught the same day. Confidence: 0.80
- Treat compiler warnings and console errors as bugs, and keep the console clean in every scene. Confidence: 0.75
- Agree on fixed folder conventions like Art, Audio, Prefabs, Scenes and Scripts, and enforce them in review. Confidence: 0.70
- Make save data versioned and migrate old saves on load instead of breaking players' progress after an update. Confidence: 0.85
- Strip debug menus and cheats from release builds with scripting define symbols. Confidence: 0.80