{"id":3767,"date":"2017-03-03T06:04:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T13:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/github-launches-unity-extension-so-game-developers-can-easily-manage-their-git-projects\/"},"modified":"2017-03-03T06:04:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T13:04:01","slug":"github-launches-unity-extension-so-game-developers-can-easily-manage-their-git-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/github-launches-unity-extension-so-game-developers-can-easily-manage-their-git-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"GitHub launches Unity extension so game developers can easily manage their Git projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

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GitHub has announced<\/a> a new plugin to make it easier for Unity game developers to access Git and GitHub\u00a0without leaving Unity.<\/p>\n

With the GitHub for Unity<\/a>\u00a0extension, which will be made available\u00a0in\u00a0alpha \u201cin the coming weeks,\u201d GitHub is looking to enable game developers to access their files and various versions through GitHub directly from within the Unity editing window.<\/p>\n

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Above: GitHub in Unity<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

As one of the most popular cross-platform game engines,\u00a0providing Unity developers a direct artery into the GitHub code-hosting world makes sense. The extension will allow game-makers to collaborate on their Git projects, with support for file-locking to avoid conflicting edits, as well as Git LFS (large file storage) which helps users track bandwidth and storage consumption\u00a0when large files are being transferred to a repository.<\/p>\n

The code-hosting platform, which claims millions of users<\/a> globally and has raised around $350 million in VC funding, recently\u00a0launched\u00a0a new search tool<\/a> to help users find repositories based on common themes, which it calls Topics. And just yesterday,\u00a0GitHub introduced a new Business tier<\/a> costing $21 per user per month.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Unity Technologies \u2014 the developer behind Unity \u2014 gave a sneak peek<\/a> of\u00a0Unity 2017, the\u00a0next\u00a0incarnation of the game engine that\u2019s scheduled to land some time in April.<\/p>\n

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