Is this normal?

0belisk

testing my game so far on the ios simulator, and its averaging between 51mb-55mb of memory usage, sounds high to me, is that fine/normal?

v00d0

yes it is! my game is at 100 mega! lol

anyway if u wanna improve it a bit replace you change image and animation with change attribute => self => image

jonmulcahy

iOS simulator is not a good test environment. You need to test on a physical device to actually test performance.