Case Study: Ambitious Games achieves seamless large-file version control and faster cloud collaboration with Perforce Helix Core

Cloud Managed Version Control for Fast + Powerful Game Development

Ambitious Games is a 12-person indie studio developing REVN with a globally distributed team and a public-facing development stream on Twitch. They needed a budget-friendly, enterprise-grade code repository that could handle multi-gigabyte art files, enforce tight versioning and review cycles for a fast two-week release cadence, and avoid adding operational overhead to their small developer-led team.

They migrated to Perforce Helix Core and Helix Swarm hosted by Assembla, which provided pre-configured, high-performance cloud instances plus managed backups, updates and maintenance. The move delivered native large-file support, streamlined code review, cost and time savings from eliminated admin work, secure collaboration for dispersed teams, and disaster recovery via hourly/daily/weekly snapshots—enabling faster releases and uninterrupted development.

Ambitious Games

Silas Talley

Creative Director