Case Study: Cloud Imperium Games scales Star Citizen development with Perforce P4

Cloud Imperium Games manages 90 terabytes of game data with Perforce P4

Cloud Imperium Games (CIG), the developer of the highly ambitious space simulator Star Citizen, faced the challenge of managing a massive, continuously evolving project with a large, distributed team. They needed a robust version control system to handle enormous amounts of data, support complex DevOps workflows, and ensure fine-grained security for their valuable game assets. They turned to vendor Perforce and their product, Perforce P4, to provide a scalable and secure foundation for their development pipeline.

By implementing Perforce P4, CIG gained a high-performance solution that expertly managed their sprawling codebase, which includes a main repository of nearly six terabytes of data. The solution provided critical features like fine-grained access controls to protect pre-release content and efficient branching with Streams to allow distributed teams to work collaboratively. The results include a highly efficient and scalable development process that supports their global team and continuous delivery model, enabling CIG to regularly release playable content to their community of backers. Perforce provided the system architecture confidence and industry-standard tooling essential for CIG to build their complex universe.

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