Quicker start up times

app_sauce

Working with gamesalad is great but I am always trying to get load and start up times better. I am testing a project trying to get start up times faster. The methods I have tried are 1) having all actors on screen from the start. This takes about 17 seconds to start up. 2) spawning actors from one spawner actor once the game boots up (14 sec) 3) Just have one play button that once it is pressed spawns an actor that has a rule to spawner all my actors (12 sec) and 4) have nothing in my first scene but a rule to change scenes (8 sec to boot up and 2 seconds to load)

I am thinking of using either method 3 or 4 but was wondering if there is a way to get a fast boot up without the load. The rule that spawns all of my game actors is instantaneous once the game is running. But just adding the rule that spawns my spawn actor to the scene cause the game boot up time to increase by 3 seconds.

I am just wondering if anyone has a method to keep boot up times as fast as possible?

tatiang

How many actors are you spawning? Are you spawning them all at once or using a loop or timer? Are the times you listed mobile device times?

app_sauce

@tatiang said:
How many actors are you spawning? Are you spawning them all at once or using a loop or timer? Are the times you listed mobile device times?

I am spawning 20 actors all at once. The times are on an ipad mini. I found it interesting that just including a actor that spawns an actor with my spawning code causes the boot up time to increase by 3-4 seconds.