Olle Axelsson

Olle is a Senior Programming Consultant at Piktiv and a former game programming student at the University of Skövde. Professionally he has worked on games like Valheim and V Rising, but he was also lead programmer for the student game project Vimmel, which won the Skövde Academic Game Award in 2021.

With his arsenal of computer knowledge, passion for R&D and “question everything” mentality, he excels at finding efficient solutions to complex problems. He also loves teaching and sharing his discoveries.

Valheim’s memory scalability was limited by the default asset management in Unity. To reduce the game’s memory usage, we implemented asset streaming.

In this talk, I will share our insights from that project and dive deep into Unity’s asset management, Asset Bundles, and Addressables. I will also cover how we developed our own abstraction layer on top of Asset Bundles, instead of using Addressables, to better meet our needs.