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The fastest way to make a PS1 demo feel real is to add textures, sound, lighting, UI, and animation. The fastest way to make it collapse is to add those systems without budgets.

Polygon Engine treats asset import and runtime budgets as the same problem. If something can be authored in the editor, it has to be countable before the build.

A PlayStation disc can hold hundreds of megabytes while the console has only 2 MB of main RAM. That contrast defines the asset pipeline: the disc stores the game, but the runtime still needs explicit loading, bounded buffers, and a plan for seek latency.

The CD-ROM is capacity, not working memory.