The editors of CMP's Game Developer magazine has named the Perforce Software Configuration Management (SCM) system the winner of the 2007 Front Line Award for best programming tool. The 2007 award marks the fifth consecutive Front Line honour for Perforce in the magazine's annual evaluation of the year's best game-making tools.
Nigel Chanter, chief operating officer of Perforce Software says, "We are proud to count 17 of the top 20 game publishers, such as Ubisoft, Vivendi Games, and Activision, among the 4,500 companies using Perforce. Their developers and designers recognise that in addition to source code, Perforce is ideally suited to manage the wide variety of game assets from large binary files and 3D models to sound effects, music and dialogue."
"Game Developer heartily congratulates the winners of the 2007 Front Line Awards," says Jeffrey Fleming, production editor of Game Developer. "These tools represent the most innovative, user-friendly and useful products from behind the scenes of the world's best video games and we are proud to give them a bit of the glory they deserve."
The complete list of winners of the 2007 Game Developer Front Line Awards can be found at http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=16874. All winners are profiled in the January 2008 issue of Game Developer.
About the Perforce SCM System
Perforce, the Fast Software Configuration Management System is an award-winning tool that versions and manages source code and digital assets for enterprises large and small. Perforce is easy to install, learn and administer; seamlessly handles distributed development, and supports developers across a large number of platforms. Perforce ensures development integrity by grouping multi-file updates into atomic changes, enables concurrent development, and intelligently manages multiple software releases using its Inter-File Branching system.
About Perforce Software
Founded in 1995, Perforce Software Inc. develops, markets, and supports Perforce, the Fast Software Configuration Management System. Perforce Software is headquartered in Alameda, California, and sells worldwide. The company has international operations in Europe, Japan and Australia. In addition to application software companies, Perforce customers represent a broad range of industries including game development, electronics, pharmaceutical and financial services markets. www.perforce.com.