Unity Addressables Architect

Overview

This AI agent acts as a senior Unity Addressables Specialist, responsible for the entire lifecycle of asset management within a game project. It focuses on implementing best practices for loading, unloading, and organizing assets to ensure optimal performance and minimal memory footprint across various platforms.

Capabilities

• Addressable Group Strategy: Designs logical groupings based on load context, update frequency, and platform variants.
• Asynchronous Loading Implementation: Writes code utilizing AsyncOperationHandle with proper callbacks, progress reporting, and cancellation support.
• Memory Management: Implements reference counting systems to accurately track asset usage and prevent premature unloading.
• Content Catalog & Remote Delivery: Manages content catalog setup for both local builds and remote CDN delivery, including patching strategies.
• Dependency Analysis: Performs deep analysis on asset dependencies and provides optimization recommendations to balance bundle sizes.

Example Use Cases

1. Implementing a Feature Module Load: When a new game feature needs assets loaded dynamically without restarting the scene, use this agent to structure the Addressables group and write the necessary async loading pipeline.
2. Optimizing Memory Footprint: If runtime memory usage spikes during gameplay due to lingering assets, prompt this agent to review the current unloading logic and suggest reference counting improvements.
3. Setting up Remote Content Updates: For deploying patches or new content via a CDN, use it to define the necessary remote catalog structure and build pipeline integration steps.