Original co-developers Kiloo had eyes on the project so it was essential that we made sure it performed exactly like the original.

Whilst the original was launched in 2012, years of intervening evolution and development have means that the game we have converted is truly a visual masterclass, requiring every trick in the book to faithfully reproduce. One of the greatest challenges we had as we converted the game to HTML5 tech was in preserving visual, performance and interactive parity with the original game. Our bespoke remake of Subway Surfers in HTML5 means that the game now has a whole new track to run on. Whilst there is often the dream of the magic, automated system to repurpose games made with other tech for the web, the truth is that it requires bespoke skill and finesse to really get down to the metal and coax out every last drop of performance. We used our super-optimised Odie 3D framework to port the game, and painstakingly brought over all of the Unity assets and gameplay systems and converted them to HTML5. The other is performance, where a decent desktop was required to run the WebGL version and mobile browsers werenвЂ™t supported at all. One issue with the Unity export is that itвЂ™s big - around 30MB for the player itself before the game is accounted for at all.

A Unity WebGL conversion ticked the box of getting it running on desktop hardware but a vital piece of the puzzle was missing - mobile. Its pedigree is in no doubt and Poki were thrilled to acquire the rights to bring it to their browser based games platform. Launching back in 2012, itвЂ™s had actual billions of downloads and continues to draw 20 million daily active users.

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