The Perforce Software Configuration Management System
experiences a surge in popularity since E3 2002
LOS ANGELES, May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Perforce Software, Inc. announced
today, at the 2003 Electronic Entertainment Exposition, a three-fold increase
in the number of game developers using the Perforce Software Configuration
Management (SCM) system to manage their digital assets. To date, more than
6,000 game developers use Perforce SCM, up from 2,000 licenses in May of 2002.
Perforce has established a major presence in the games market because it helps
shorten time to market for new quality titles.
"We've heard directly from game creators that Perforce cuts their
development time by improving real-time collaboration, greatly reducing the
effects of an otherwise protracted feedback loop," said Christopher Seiwald,
founder and chief technology officer of Perforce Software. "Perforce enables
coders and artists to see instantly the results of changes made by other users
as they occur. This dramatically cuts down on the time between when a
modification is made and when its effect is felt."
Perforce SCM is a powerful digital asset management (DAM) system that
provides greater accuracy, control, and productivity to the game design and
development process, with significantly reduced administrative overhead. The
key advantage is that changes are applied across the entire production
pipeline -- regardless of the scale or geographical split of the teams
involved, thereby allowing teams to quickly, efficiently, and easily manage
interdependencies between changes. With Perforce, developers can manage
multiple versions of games and meet specific schedule and feature
requirements.
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"I am a big fan of Perforce, which I refer to as our 'hub for
everything'," said Steve Sinclair, lead programmer and DAM evangelist at
Digital Extremes. "We store all our source code, art assets, development
documentation and even our web content in Perforce."
"When we collaborate on games, as we did recently with Epic and Microsoft,
our productivity is radically improved by having a combined asset management
repository (Perforce) for all assets. We can quickly produce builds to share
with partners, or absorb their contributed libraries. And, trusted partners
can access and update the code base in real time without the risk of losing
anyone's changes. With Perforce, team members can confidently return to any
consistent state for all project files."
Other game companies using Perforce for DAM include Electronics Arts,
Infogrames, Zoonami, Maxis, Sony Online Entertainment, Ubisoft and Crystal
Dynamics, Sports Interactive, Lionhead Studios (Black & White), Monolith
Productions (No One Lives Forever), Westwood Studios (Command & Conquer),
Valve Software (Half-Life), Gas Powered Games (Dungeon Siege), and Relic
Entertainment (Impossible Creatures).
About the Perforce Software Configuration Management System
Perforce is a comprehensive software configuration management (SCM) system
that streamlines the software development process for organizations working
with multiple operating systems and in multiple physical locations. This high-
powered SCM system provides software developers and artists an easy-to-use
tool for digital asset management functions such as version control and
workspace management with atomic change transactions. Perforce runs on over 50
operating systems and maximizes efficiency by managing work on local disks and
providing for online backups.
About Perforce Software
Perforce Software Inc. develops, markets, and supports Perforce, the Fast
Software Configuration Management System. Headquartered in Alameda, Calif.,
Perforce Software sells worldwide and has international operations in Europe,
Japan, and Africa. Perforce customers include developers of systems,
application, Web, and database software, and firms in the financial,
education, and research markets. For additional information, contact Perforce
Software via email at info@perforce.com or phone at +1.510.864.7400, or on the
Web at http://www.perforce.com
All trademarks or registered trademarks are property of their respective
owners.
SOURCE Perforce Software, Inc.
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CONTACT:
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