GitHub Actions is a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that allows you to automate your build, test, and deployment pipeline.

Over the course of them I will try to share with you in a simple way the current workflow that we are using in the games studio I work at to build & publish a Unity WebGL project to a local server. This is the first of a series of three posts, the original (spanish) version of this one was previously published here. What I missed, really was the lack of tools for a certain developer that works using Unity as an engine and was really used to comply to the big software factories way of doing code, specially with a lot of automatic checks. In the cloud I can say ‘run the build on 6 servers’ and be done with it.Since I started goofing around in the gamedev world I also started to miss some things. If you need speed, you need to buy more hardware, install it, maintain it etc. If the game grows it will have longer build times. And a build server in the cloud opens up the possibility for scaling etc. In the end it could be cheaper than having my own hardware for building. If I dont need to maintain a build server, I have time to work on the game. I dont want to maintain my webserver: handling log files, keeping OS up to date, keeping web server software up to date, worrying about hardware replacement when its too old or is broken etc. Nothing easier than dumping the stuff at Azure/Amazon/Google and let them handle everything. Same reason IAAS/PAAS/SAAS/etc exists these days.

Well, for a small team it might be interesting. Also, does it have to be Epic? Could be another company providing the service. No need to take resources out of the engine development team. If the service is paid, they can hire people for this service. If you can’t even afford one dedicated machine to handle builds, I doubt your project is big/complex enough to really be in need of such services There is something wrong with that, because it means Epic needs to take some of its resources out of the engine development team, and assign them to handling services like cloud build.

Unity cloud build version