Case Study: BANDAI NAMCO Studios achieves 66% faster builds and dramatic shader compile speedups with Incredibuild

Bandai Namco - Customer Case Study

Bandai Namco Studios, the largest development studio in the Bandai Namco group known for franchises like PAC‑MAN and TEKKEN, was struggling with slow build and Unreal Engine shader compilation times that lengthened iteration cycles, increased developer stress, and limited time for testing and creativity. To address this, they turned to Incredibuild and its Enterprise Edition to accelerate builds and improve development velocity.

Incredibuild implemented a helper farm (120 helper machines plus ~70 small PCs including 10 high‑spec 64‑core systems) integrated with engineers’ ~300 private machines and enabled multi‑help/multi‑build workflows and an Enterprise dashboard for utilization and ROI tracking. The result: over 400 developers now use Incredibuild, build and compilation times fell by about 66% on average (one project went from 50 minutes to 8 minutes), Unreal shader compile times dropped dramatically, and teams gained time for higher‑quality work and cultural innovation.

Bandai Namco

Takuya Yoshida

Studios IT Service Planning Department