Release Ready Pro — Ship-Ready Build Validation

Your game doesn't break at release by accident. It breaks because a scene

silently dropped out of Build Settings, a reference went missing, the build

shipped as a Development Build, or Android shipped without ARM64. Release

Ready Pro catches those mistakes before the build — with a blocker-driven QA

gate that says PASS or lists exactly what's wrong, in plain English.

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WHAT IT DOES

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• 16 automated release checks across Standalone, Android, iOS and WebGL

• Every failure explains WHAT happened, WHY it matters, and HOW to fix it

• Safe, previewed one-click fixes with revert — or a guided manual path

• A health score (0–100) where blockers decide the outcome, not vibes

• Immutable release snapshots with comparison, so you can see what changed

  between release candidates

• An opt-in pre-build gate that stops a build with unresolved blockers

• A manual checklist for what no scan can prove (device testing, store

  listing review), with per-release acknowledgements

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THE 16 CHECKS

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Core (all platforms)

✓ Build scenes exist and are enabled

✓ Development Build is off for release

✓ Semantic version format (major.minor.patch)

✓ Application identifier is not Unity's placeholder

✓ Icons assigned in Player Settings

✓ Missing references in enabled scenes and prefabs

✓ Scripting backend (IL2CPP for mobile release)

✓ API compatibility off legacy .NET 2.0

Android

✓ ARM64 target architecture (Google Play requirement)

✓ Minimum API level vs. your profile's policy

✓ App Bundle (.aab) build format

✓ Custom release keystore selected

iOS

✓ Target minimum iOS version vs. your profile's policy

✓ Apple Developer Team ID set for signing

WebGL

✓ Debug symbols off for release

✓ Compression format safe for your hosting (Brotli caveats explained)

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HIGHLIGHTS

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EXPLAIN, NOT JUST FAIL — Every issue opens a beginner-friendly deep dive:

what happened on THIS project, why it matters for a release, the typical fix,

plus a built-in glossary of Unity jargon. Great for juniors, faster for

seniors.

FIXES YOU CAN TRUST — Fixable checks propose a change you preview first

(current value → proposed value), apply with one click, verify by re-scan,

and revert if anything looks wrong. Checks that can't safely self-fix (like

your app identifier or keystore) say so, and explain why.

PROFILE-BASED POLICY — Ship different rules to different targets. Per-profile

check enable/disable, severity overrides, and typed platform requirements

(e.g. Android minimum API 23). Create as many profiles as you ship variants.

IGNORE WITH REASONS — Quiet a known finding per-fingerprint, with a reason,

for 7/30/90 days or forever. Expiring ignores resurface on their own —

nothing rots silently.

RELEASE HISTORY & SNAPSHOTS — Capture an immutable snapshot of any scan;

promote one to "shipped" to lock it; compare two snapshots to see exactly

which issues appeared, disappeared, or changed. Post-build snapshots are

captured automatically after every build.

BUILT FOR TEAMS & CI — Settings and profiles are project assets your whole

team shares; manual checklist acknowledgements stay per-machine under

Library/, so they never cause merge conflicts. In batchmode the gate runs

build-safe, and an opt-in "Enforce pre-build gate" per profile blocks builds

on blockers — with a documented command-line bypass

(-releaseReadyProSkipGate) so a misconfigured gate can never trap your CI.

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WHO IT'S FOR

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Solo devs and small teams who ship without a QA department, leads who want a

repeatable "is this ready?" answer, and juniors learning what a release

actually requires. It complements — not replaces — your playtesting: it

validates configuration, then hands you the manual checklist for everything

no scan can prove.