Switching to Plastic SCM made all the difference for A Township Tale. In Plastic, people can jump around the project in ways that won't be destructive." "Plastic is easy to parse and much easier to navigate. "It felt like if someone touched the wrong thing, everything would break," says KO_OP studio director Saleem Dabbous, making it difficult for programmers to have the confidence to step in for someone else. With other VCS solutions, a common issue shared by the developers is that collaboration can hit a wall over the smallest of errors. "Whenever we had an issue with Git, it could literally cost us one to two weeks to resolve it" Boramy Unn, Alta "I think there was a 2GB limit somewhere, and whenever an artist or somebody who didn't know how to use command line arguments and didn't understand on a quite deep level how worked, it would pretty much halt everything."Īccording to Sycoforge CEO Michela Rimensberger, while some programmers might be able to navigate the complexities of other VCS tools, she says: "artists had sweat outbreaks using them." "At our previous workplaces we always had a lot of trouble with art files, particularly large files," explains A Township Tale's game director Boramy Unn in a recent Creator Spotlight stream with Unity's community team. Alta's VR open world RPG: A Township Tale While most game developers will be familiar with some of the more popular VCS options out there, the studios we spoke to have generally found they weren't ideal for game development, even if many teams have grown used to them with past projects. Not only is it secure and efficient for any kind of project, but it also supports any engine, not just Unity. Plastic SCM is a VCS purposely designed for game development that's easy to use whether you're a programmer, artist or designer.
For developers Alta (creator of VR open world RPG A Township Tale), KO_OP (the team behind narrative adventure Goodbye Volcano High) and Sycoforge (makers of dark fantasy adventure Return To Nangrim), Unity's Plastic SCM has been the perfect solution. Triaging solutions with clunky add-on services or 'status quo' tools not designed for large projects can waste time, and pull valuable resources away from making the game itself. Version control systems (VCS) are key for source code management, but a VCS with features that help increase productivity and collaboration is all the more crucial for global teams. While this also brings opportunities, such as the ability to collaborate with individuals from across the globe, it presents new challenges that can impact a project from shipping on-time, on-budget, and with few bugs.
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