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Ben Britten @benbritten.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Now for the most exciting part of gamedev: builds! whee! I am a big believer in just getting your CI/CD system up and running from the start. I have a Jenkins control node running in a VM on a linux box, and an M4 mac mini as my main build box. the m4 is a surprisingly capable build machine.

a relatively boring screenshot of the middle of a jenkins console log for a godot build using my custom builder code.

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Ben Britten @benbritten.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I also self host my source control on another VM. This makes it _very_ simple to keep backups of jenkins and the SVN box as I just zip up the qcow files and store them elsewhere (S3 in this case, but I am looking at getting a local RAID setup so I can move off AWS). Always run backups kids!

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Keith Jones @keithjones.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I might come begging for advice on CI/CD some day! I transitioned from programming (to math) long before CI/CD was anything like what it is today, and just coming back, like I get it in principle but it's just another thing in the backlog to pick up that takes time from game dev code.

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