Make Scalable Version Control a Part of Your Foundation
Perforce P4 (formerly Helix Core) is the industry standard version control platform for game development. Trusted by 19/20 of the top AAA game development studios, and award-winning studios large and small, P4 gives your teams a version control foundation for creating without limits.
One Source of Truth, Multiple Ways to See and Maintain
Transform your development with the Version Control leader.
P4 has an unrivaled ability to handle the expanding size and complexity of today’s projects. Store and track changes to all of your digital assets—from source code to binaries—while giving your teams the scale and security they need to collaborate efficiently.
- Enhance collaboration with external partners and vendors with granular access control down to the file level and IP address.
- Reduce duplicate work and conflicts amongst large game dev teams by implementing exclusive file locking with global lock visibility.
- Share the same code across different target game platforms with advanced branching models and built-in visualizations (via Streams).
- Reduce storage costs by archiving past projects on S3 (and S3-compatible) object storage support.
P4 Code Review (formerly Helix Swarm) is a web-based code review tool integrated withP4. Built to streamline code review and collaboration, P4 Code Review’s intuitive interface enables teams to ship games and updates faster, while supporting full traceability.
- Customize your team’s code review workflow, by implementing a pre-commit or post-commit review model.
- Enable collaborative reviews by adding comments and up or down voting submitted reviews, ensuring no errors make their way into a release branch.
- View a complete code review history
- Flexible API that enables custom configuration of P4 to seamlessly work with your preferred and proprietary tools.
Provide your art and design teams with one central place to find, review, and get feedback on every version of the characters, accessories, and materials they create. P4 DAM (formerly Helix DAM) connects with P4 to give your studio the visual library it needs to efficiently reference and reuse its catalog of IP.
- Interactive views that let you spin, rotate, and review 3D models and character animations.
- Easily locate assets with AI-powered search, tagging capabilities, and customizable metadata for labeling and categorization.
- Share projects and assets across your departments, teams, and subsidiaries.
- Easily link to depots from past and current projects and even mix classic and stream depots inside a single project.
- File locking that shows your art teams what characters, materials and textures are currently being worked on.
With the ability to track bugs, time spent, and overall progress across a mix of development methodologies, P4 Plan (formerly Hansoft) assembles the many mindsets and workflows on your team into a unified view that anyone can follow.
- Gain alignment across your team and a comprehensive view of your projects with the following views: Product Backlog, Quality Assurance, Planning, Reports, and Dashboards.
- Import Excel files to instantaneously create projects and tasks and update existing items.
- Built-in Pipeline Editor for templatizing your team’s custom workflows.
- Invite ghost users into projects for seamless collaboration with external partners and vendors.
- Advanced GraphQL API for developing custom automations and integrations with your team’s game dev toolkit.
Ubisoft’s Central Source of Truth: P4
Ubisoft trusts P4 source control to support over 1,000+ team members across roles and departments.“The tight integration of our tools with [P4] using the [P4] API has led to great improvements in productivity,” says Beaufils.
Unmatched Scalability and Performance
"We wasted up to a third of our day on tasks that were completely unrelated to the work. Once we realized we could get that time back, choosing Perforce was a no-brainer."
- Jakub Kutrzuba, DevOps Lead at CD PROJEKT RED
82%
Rate P4’s ability to scale as “Best in Class.”
100% ROI in 2 years
Based on customer feedback in customer survey.
“Perforce [P4] does exactly what we need it to do. Its performance is superior to other products.”
- Jesus Martinez, Producer, Tequila Works
Accelerate Game Development with the Power of Perforce
Perforce’s suite of products empowers game development teams of all sizes. At its foundation is Perforce Helix Core—the industry standard version control platform. Explore Perforce’s additional products designed to support your team through every stage of the game dev process.
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