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Version Control for Game Devs: Survey Results

At Diversion, we are building a next generation Version Control tool, with a strong emphasis on addressing the unique challenges faced by game developers. It’s no secret that the games industry is underserved by existing solutions (see here), but we wanted to hear first hand from game developers about the tools they are using, how they use them, and what challenges they encounter. With that in mind, we ran a survey among professional game developers.

Yuki Arbel

January 24, 2023

Unleashing Git for the Game Development Industry

While the gaming industry is booming, standard software tools and processes for this industry are still lagging behind - including Source Control Management (SCM) tools which are tables stakes for software development. This ought to change.

Yuki Arbel

November 13, 2022

Secure By-Design Storage for Your SCM

The widely adopted SCM tools we use today, Github and Gitlab, are built on the dated architecture and design of git. I recently happened upon this thread on HackerNews that talked about a lot of the pains we’ve spoken about in our article On Git and Cognitive Load. These aren’t the only issues with Git, many of them are just really simple missing features that are no longer aligned to our current engineering practices, take this post on Folder (Non)Tracking, and today I want to talk about common workarounds (AKA hacks) for secure storage with today’s SCMs.

Avi Mastov

August 7, 2022

GitHub Copilot and Open Source: A Love Story That Won’t End Well

GitHub’s recently commercialized offering of Copilot, which delivers AI-powered code composition/auto-completion, was built upon the sourcing of code from millions of open source projects hosted in GitHub. This was done in spite of many OSS developers disagreeing to this use of their creation, and prompted Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) and Free Software Foundation to recommend OSS developers to cut ties with GitHub.

Sasha Medvedovsky

July 21, 2022

Git and Folder (Non)Tracking

Aside from the complexities of using git as a source code version control tool (you can read this post about it), there are other aspects with the way that git works that still require workarounds and hacks, even as they are known issues for many years.

Avi Mastov

June 20, 2022

How We Automated our End-to-End Testing from the First Line of Code

The hierarchy of tests as they relate to quality assurance are from unit tests through E2E testing, so just so we’re on the same page––I’ll briefly dive into each, and why the ultimate goal is to reach E2E testing of your product.

Egal Lazarev

June 8, 2022

On Git and Cognitive Load

Git itself as a system, while it has its benefits, is known to come with a lot of complexity that ultimately translates to cognitive load for developers. This post is going to dive into that a bit, and how we can improve upon previous source control systems to deliver improved developer happiness in the future.

Sasha Medvedovsky

March 24, 2022