Thank you!

Sticky notes ftw :D

More often than not, clean builds can solve some issues that occur due to something, something being cached or not properly overwritten, but also they assure that your project compilation will work for other team members (given that the rest of their setup is correct).

We are doing our best to continue at this pace, and have an alpha version testable in a few months.

Until then, you can help us stay motivated by wishlisting Berghotel Heist on Steam and spreading the love!

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Of course, it is always possible to test *some* stuff locally, but more often than not, we would receive false positives, before testing them in a real environment and experiencing existential crisis :D :D

Additional benefit is that we work remotely, and just being able to test multiplayer features so effortlessly is a blessing for us. Sadly, setting up multiplayer sessions can still be a huge pita, and multiple builds are necessary to dial everything in.

On average (given that it is a pretty barebones game still), iterative build takes 4 minutes from clicking "Submit" in our VCS to having it updated on Steam.

If you have any questions about the setup of such pipelines, please ask away in the comments..

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There are multiple free (or free until a certain threshold) and paid solutions, and since our project is made in Unreal Engine, my recommendation would be to look at the Perforce and TeamCity (both are free until a certain number of users/projects, which is perfect for tiny teams like ours).

At first, the whole setup process might seem daunting, but here are countless high quality guides online, as a similar practice is also common in other branched of software development.

For the ones that are not aware of such systems, the biggest benefit is that you can automate compilations/building, testing, staging and publishing process, and once everything is set correctly, those steps can be triggered with each version control submission, or just a single button press.

Thank you @benithemaker.bsky.social!

We (a trio of indies) have just recently made our Steam page public, as well as a first teaser for Berghotel Heist:

🎮 ➡️ Wishlist on Steam!
store.steampowered.com/app/3476240/...

I was not aware it was done by your studio. Looking forward to playing it!