Game Development Reference
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Figure 4.5
Visual Build from Kinook software.
data, or runs a proprietary compression technology, it must be able to take input
from the command line, or you won
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t be able to automate your build process.
Another clever piece of software I
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ve used at multiple companies is called Incredi-
build by Xoreax Software. It takes the long process of a build and distributes it to
idle machines across your network. It can take some time to set up, but you can
often get up to a 20-fold decrease in your build times!
ll want to create a few build scripts for your project. Most builds will simply grab
the latest code, build it, and copy the results somewhere on the network. The mile-
stone build is a little more complicated and involves branching and merging the
source code repository.
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