3 Reasons Game Developers are Looking for Perforce Alternatives

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The main alternatives game developers have to choose from are Git, SVN and Unity Version Control (which is how Unity packaged their acquired Plastic SCM). A recent article in The New Stack provides a good roundup comparing between the various alternatives. Spoiler: no tool is perfect and something’s got to give….

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When looking for alternatives, there are a few evaluation criteria that are unique to the game development industry. First and foremost: scalability. Game projects tend to be large and include many large binary files. Version control tools have to cater for that and apparently not all of them do this all that well. Git, for example, has a limit on its file and repo size, and game developers typically have to use Git-LFS to be able to use Git reasonably (but even that doesn’t work all that well).

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One major complaint about Perforce is the complex setup and maintenance it requires. As a tool developed back in the 1990’s, and not undergoing an architectural overhaul since, Perforce server is software that needs to be installed on a dedicated server. Being in the era of SaaS (with version control tools like Github, Gitlab and Bitbucket available as SaaS), developers are reluctant to invest excess IT resources running legacy infrastructure and the fact that Perforce still requires them to do so is considered as a drawback.

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One major complaint about Perforce is the complex setup and maintenance it requires. As a tool developed back in the 1990’s, and not undergoing an architectural overhaul since, Perforce server is software that needs to be installed on a dedicated server. Being in the era of SaaS (with version control tools like Github, Gitlab and Bitbucket available as SaaS), developers are reluctant to invest excess IT resources running legacy infrastructure and the fact that Perforce still requires them to do so is considered as a drawback.

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One major complaint about Perforce is the complex setup and maintenance it requires. As a tool developed back in the 1990’s, and not undergoing an architectural overhaul since, Perforce server is software that needs to be installed on a dedicated server. Being in the era of SaaS (with version control tools like Github, Gitlab and Bitbucket available as SaaS), developers are reluctant to invest excess IT resources running legacy infrastructure and the fact that Perforce still requires them to do so is considered as a drawback.

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