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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Tired of Git / Git Hub? Want to bring sanity and performance to your version control? Introducing Ark HUB! It is a spartan version control hosting solution for Ark VCS, aimed at high performance / reliability, currently supporting private repositories.

Welcome to Ark Hub, an official cloud service from the people behind Ark VCS. It is meant as a fair take on cloud services, so we do things differently.

Ark Hub's goal is to run high performance and availability Ark servers for those not interested in shelf hosting.

All servers come with 5GB for free. There is no price per user, the cost is purely based on extra storage. Ark licenses still apply, so if you have annual revenue / funding above €200.000, you'll need to get a business license.

If at any point you decided you want to self host, a zip with your server will be provided.

Your data is yours. There are no partners to Ark Hub nor any kind of AI training.

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Ark VCS 1.1.2 is out! This release brings a new window to find shelves, but it also can be used to search committed changelists. ark-vcs.com #gamedev

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Séb @sebdegraff.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

YESSS! This is the baseline latency we should expect from a CI pipeline. Nice to see what can be done when you're in control and not github actions or whatever. (The time it takes for the little package icon to turn white or red is the duration my VPS takes to compile and run a trivial c file)

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Quite often when using tools you don't really get enough information about what system resources it is using. This is something that specially bugs me when using resource heavy apps, so from the next version of Ark VCS it tracks all its resources in real time. #gamedev

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Ark VCS (think like an indie contender for the Perforce crown) just hit 1.0, and by the end of this video I was hooting and hollering Yeah I doubt I'll use this on current Unreal project cus (Unreal has tight links to Perforce) but next project? Oh hot damn mebs yes www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSnI...

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Ark 1.0 - Version Control is about to change

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Séb @sebdegraff.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

looked a bit more into how Ark VCS has evolved, and there are really cool features! For example you can have your CI system annotate changelists (commits) with "build flags" (really build status). That will show a little icon next to the commit that can be clicked to open the corresponding build.

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Anders Elfgren 🏹 Tides of Revival RPG @srekel.net · 27/04/2026

Here are the cool Ark VCS icons from my post yesterday: You can specify path rules in Ark that map to names and icons, so when you're looking at the history you can easily see which commits have certain types of content. It's mostly a fun thing for now but I think it can become quite useful. :)

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

After 3 years, 47 releases, Ark VCS has finally reached 1.0! 🎉 youtu.be/XSnIw4siQ6U It's a big release, with features that I've never seen to any version control system out of the box, like built-in changelist build status. If you're tired of #perforce and #git, get it from ark-vcs.com! #gamedev

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Ark 1.0 - Version Control is about to change

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Hey @aseprite.org - you have two rotation algorithms, and they're both imperfect! Get you the perfect one over here: web.archive.org/web/20240104... www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LCE...

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Rotation without rotating.

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Danilo Nunes Paulo | Avante! Atlantis - Demo Available Now! @avanteatlantis.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Avante! Atlantis is a tactical turn-based game with a striking boardgame style. As Atlantis resurfaces amid global conflict, command your forces, uncover its secrets, and fight for control in a world on the brink of war. Wishlist and Play the Demo now: store.steampowered.com/app/3172160 #indiegame

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Avante! Atlantis - Official Demo Release Trailer | Latin American Games Showcase SGF Edition 2025

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Constance 💜🖌️ OUT NOW EVERYWHERE! @constancegame.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

😱 Thank you so much everyone for receiving our dear Constance so well 😊💜 We couldn't be happier with the critical reception! If you have 2 minutes to leave us a review on Steam or Metacritic, that would be amazing. Thank you!!

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Kyle McKernan @spacetreasured.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

This is our next game we've been working on and will continue to work on. Please go play NOW :)

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silent w (hire me for your game!) @silentw.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

interesting new VCS solution that's more p4-like and NOT git-like (thank god) still haven't watched the entire thing but it looks interesting.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Ark VCS looks interesting - a version control system specifically for games. It looks and feels a lot like P4, and not much like Git, so I like it already. ark-vcs.com/index.html

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Had the immense pleasure being interviewed by @gameengineering.bsky.social ! It was great to be able to talk about version control systems, go into why decentralization is a mistake for 99% of developers, and also showcase a why Ark VCS is better! :-] youtu.be/Te2gZc_mOMA?...

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Version Control that doesn't suck | Nuno Afonso

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Ark 0.10.0 was released, and it brings Tags. I also decided to jump to the final form of the licensing model: - Indie: free up to $500K funding / annual revenue - Business: perpetual license w/ 1y of upgrades and price per seat ark-vcs.com #software #gamedev #indiegamedev

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Niklas Lundberg @datgame.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Been using ark-vcs.com for a few weeks now. Not done anything advanced, not even branches. But it seems like a better version of Perforce. Hopefully it gets more users and more active development. I'm happy to not be using git for hobby stuff anymore.

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Ark VCS

Ark is a new version control system built from the ground up for performance and ease of use. It comes as an alternative to Perforce and Git focusing specifically on being able to support big complex projects with binary files, such as the case in video games.

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Voxelgram 2 coming soon to Steam (3D Picross) buff.ly/SfamOVh

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

ark-vcs.com 0.9.10 was just released! A while back somebody asked me how merging a big project like Unreal Engine from one branch to another would look, so here it is. #gamedev #indiegamedev #software www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhnb...

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Ark Vcs - Merging Unreal Engine

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Whalestork's 🐺THE NIGHT IS GREY🐺 OUT NOW @whalestorkgames.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Hey Whalestork fans we are 3 review away of reaching 150 reviews! A very short review is enough and really helps miniscule indie developers like us! To those who already left one, you are amazing!

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Nuno Afonso @nafonsopt.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Hello Bluesky! I'm developing Ark, a version control system with games in mind, for people looking for an alternative to perforce and git. Last month Ark was showcased at Handmade Seattle Conference. Here's the video of that demo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW5y... #gamedev #indiegamedev

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Ark VCS - Handmade Seattle 2024 Demo

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Whalestork's 🐺THE NIGHT IS GREY🐺 OUT NOW @whalestorkgames.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

🍃IT’S NOW OR NEVER 🍃(or at least until next year’s Autumn Sales) You have until the end of the day to get The Night is Grey with 38% discount. Go get it!

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