April 8th, 2022 - Jace Talk: Incredibuild

April 8th, 2022

Jace Talk: Incredibuild

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    1. Jace

      So if anything happens to our Perforce server or to our office or anything like that, we'll have, you know, a fairly recent version of the Perforce server backed up somewhere else.

      The next tool that our IT folks use is called Incredibuild.

      And Incredibuild is essentially a program that helps distribute compile jobs amongst multiple computers across a network.

      And so what this means is that when someone needs to compile the game, one of the programs makes some changes, they need to compile.

      What they can actually do is distribute the compile work across multiple computers within the office so that everyone can help out with the compilation of the game instead of just that one person's PC doing it.

      And so what normally could take, you know, an hour or more only takes a few minutes with the help of everyone's PC.

      Saves a lot of time.