Ylands VS SCons

If you need a place where people don't run off daily, I have been running a gaming community for 10 YEARS. We have made, finished and published some of the most popular games on http://ylands.com and sold projects to Tencent and Bohemia Interactive. Source: about 1 year ago

I run a group of mature hobbyist game developers and our art team needs some leadership. We have had a history of building cool things that actually get finished and published but we mostly did those things as mods/DLC for other games. We won in 6, 15-30,000 USD game competitions and worked with Bohemia Interactive and Tencent on the game Ylands. Source: over 1 year ago

The most comprehensive make alternative in python I've seen is Scons (https://scons.org/) It would be worth to see how they tackles some of the challenges you're looking into. Blurb from the website: SCons is an Open Source software construction tool. Think of SCons as an improved, cross-platform substitute for the classic Make utility with integrated functionality similar to autoconf/automake and compiler caches... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

Https://scons.org/ It has cache facility to speed up re-builds. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

SCons never got popular enough to escape the niches it grew up in. Source: 10 months ago

I literally do almost this exact thing with the game im working on. Situation is: im the programmer, working with an artist who cant code (and im not going to make them edit json on an ipad lmao) so I have a google drive spreadsheet where they put metadata for the items they make. I have a script that uses rclone to copy this down as a csv, along with the image assets. Then I wrote a python extension for scons... Source: about 1 year ago

It's a build tool, like cmake. https://scons.org/ you have to install it. Source: about 1 year ago