My friend was building his game and showed it to me, and it really annoyed me that he didn’t put assets in version control and just shoved each one of his versions into google drive.
I used to work on build engineering back in EA, and i really liked doing that stuff, so I was gonna just fling a cheap host up with Lore version control so that he stopped doing crazy things and have a proper place to put his game models.
Anyone interested in a free host? Its mostly cost amortized for me so not a big deal as long as you’re not hosting outrageous amounts but i’d just have excess machine host anyways.
Main constraint is that i’d probably ask folks to make it publicly accessible in the spirit of open source.
Since this is something I need in principle, I’ll respond.
Not everyone has the ability to pay. For example, I live in a country under sanctions and cannot pay or receive even symbolic amounts.
This requirement is categorically unacceptable. Games often have a storyline. Revealing the plot usually takes away the game’s intrigue. Open source means the plot becomes known right away. Not everyone will like that.
What would be the advantage of such a service over GitLab? Only GitLab allows you to create a private repository, which is very limited in the free version, but sufficient for a small project.
GitHub is blocked in our country. And there are still a lot of questions about it. So the desire to have an alternative to GitHub is understandable. But one already exists.
If you have contributors in different physical locations (whether around the globe or in different basements in the same city), you need your host to be accessible from the public internet. Setting up an internet-accessible private host isn’t difficult or expensive, but it does cost at least some amount of money and effort. Hence the attraction of free private git hosting providers for hobby projects.
It’s not what I would use, but I can at least understand why other people would find it attractive.
assets mostly. github/gitlab hosting is kind of expensive for large assets, the newer version control systems are generally cheaper, i.e. a ~ few hundred gigs isn’t that expensive.
I generally don’t recommend LFS because its a terrible system.
hm.. i don’t think i’m technically legally allowed to even host you, and you’d likely need to host your own private one at that point. Its fairly straightforward to do though if you’ve a got a some cheap compute laying around.