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Building a great game involves uniting team members and their tools. But too often, developers spend more time setting up their environment and building their pipeline, rather than innovating. Perforce Software has been working with Microsoft to address these challenges. It started with the Enhanced Studio Pack. This lets studios quickly launch a pre-configured environment with industry-leading tools.

On behalf of the product and engineering teams at Perforce, I am pleased to announce the official release of Helix Digital Asset Management, or Helix DAM for short. Helix DAM is the newest addition to the Digital Creation & Planning Suite. It is purpose-built to help teams capitalize on and secure their creative digital assets.

Traceability is likely an important part of your job if your organization produces something that requires you to keep track of specs, changes, requests, results, and versions, Yet considering how many companies still track requirements manually, and how many development teams use disparate systems for application lifecycle management, the benefits of traceability may not be widely understood.

In a world that’s literally had to define a new normal, standards and rules around safety and quality have been scrutinized more than ever before. And that new reality is affecting standard operations for some industries. While the importance of compliance has not changed, the complexity of it may have. Considering how quickly we continue advancing, this increasing complexity may also be part of our new normal. If you’ve not updated your compliance management lately, now may be a good time.

In the previous article, we walked through an example of how to query and retrieve data from a MySQL database using the native MySQL C API and then compared that to the clean simplicity of using the SourcePro DB API. In this article, we are going to take that a step further and look at input parameter binding. Building off the system we discussed previously that manages the accounts for a credit card system, we are now going to implement a simple application that can add transactions to an account.

A lot of teams are starting to look for version control for binary files. As more teams adopt game engine technology, they produce more art assets, builds, and other files that they need to store and track. A lot of version control tools simply don’t do a good job with versioning or storing large binary files, like game engine files. Managing these files efficiently becomes a serious issue the more a team and their projects grow. You need the right version control for large binary files.