My game freezes whenever I die/beat a level and go to a new one.

You could have logic that tries to go between two different layouts constantly or keeps refreshing the layout. Or if you messed with timescale then it's stuck at 0. If it's not that I dunno, share the project.

You could have logic that tries to go between two different layouts constantly or keeps refreshing the layout. Or if you messed with timescale then it's stuck at 0. If it's not that I dunno, share the project.

Well, I don't really recall messing with the timescale. Also, these are the events that determine whether the player enters a new level.

When I go into any level (the same or different level) more than once during a preview, the timescale completely freezes. However, the music for the level still plays and the debugger shows that it's in a level. Here is an example:

I'm not sure why this is happening. Not even the save and load feature that I've added fixed this (yeah, crazy).

This is off-topic but still pretty weird...Whenever I start up the game, make a new slot, push the back button, and press the load button to load in the slot, most of the letters turn purple.

This could also happen once the title screen layout ends and then started again:

Who knows, maybe my game is cursed. :/

Anyhow, I'm not exactly sure what the root of the problem is at all. I've only taken notice of this recently while testing the characters. For now, I don't really see anything that can be causing this problem. So I'm not sure what to do next. The game's progress will still continue, but maybe I'll try to fix the problem once it's published and the game's files are public.

I had a look and the freezing is from memory usage, it jumps from 5mb in level select to up to 900mb in the level so it's loading the assets.

Also sorry to say but these look like mobile controls and this is never going to work on a mobile device, did you test it yet? The memory usage is so high it even freezes on a PC. Mobile should be around 100mb or less ideally and yours creeps up to 600-900mb on each level.

Ok the memory usage is almost entirely caused by these characters you've got underneath the level that are not really part of the level. Delete them. You've used the level as a kind of object bank but this should be in a different layout. They will need to be optimised in general though as one is spawned for the player.

Also they appear in the character select screen, consider using a different object for this - objects with one frame of the character. The tutorial is also approaching 1gb because of all the characters, they just need to be optimised I think each char adds about 200mb which is a lot when you consider that memory usage should be around 100mb max total for all graphics in the layout. This could work on mobile if you reduce those characters down.

What are you showing us? Please explain the problem. If it's a bug of invisible character that's secondary to the performance issues at the moment, you need to chop down those character animations. You should delete the characters from that level and an object bank isn't totally necessary.

There is no doubt it is why the game freezes as described above, it is preloading around 600-900mb of assets on transition. Notice how it doesn't freeze when you transition to the level select screen? If it doesn't have to load these characters then it doesn't freeze at least for me on PC because the memory usage is more reasonable.