[paganartifact]

Lore is copying us with "git for gamedev" messaging, and their entire brand.

Epic interviewed me asking all sorts of questions about my customers and use cases.

"Pagan" "Lore" lol Our site used to say "Folklore" at the top of projects.

They still don't really understand the customer or use case, so have fun.

[exac]

I tried your website, but it just says "LOADING".

[paganartifact]

It's a regular loading state.

Keep slowly copying other people's ideas without a clue why you are doing it.

Keep losing Fortnite to Roblox and random indie devs. You think copying another person is going to help you? Lol

[applfanboysbgon]

Respectfully, "VCS for game development" is not a novel idea in any way, and you have literally zero claim to it. It's obvious that Git is poorly suited for multimedia binaries that are integral to games, so obvious that there's Git LFS which is still just a bolted-on hack when you'd ideally have a system designed for them from scratch. It's also explicitly not specifically "Git for gamedev" -- it's "Perforce for gamedev", as they opt into the authoritative server model rather than Git's decentralized model.

Epic has also been working on this for longer than the three months your repo has been around. This is the launch of the open source project and independent GUI, but it was already integrated with their Fortnite game engine before now.

Your VCS repo is called "Artifact". It seems like a stretch to say that somebody using "Lore" is copying from you. Even if it were called "Pagan" that's still a stretch, but "Artifact" especially so.

I think a VCS written in Javascript is also inherently a nonstarter for any kind of production-grade use case. The idea that nobody else can make a gamedev-oriented VCS because somebody in the world made a little hobby project along those lines is frankly ludicrous.

(Granted, I'm not exactly keen to use Lore myself given the heavy signs of vibe coding throughout the documentation and repo. A vibe coded VCS is also inherently a nonstarter. Here I'm hoping some third party will come along and do VCS for gamedev right!)

I'd also add that there's some element of hypocrisy to criticising Epic here when your own marketing pitch is "I copied Git".

[paganartifact]

> I think a VCS written in Javascript is also inherently a nonstarter

That's because you have no clue what it is, or why it's in JavaScript.

Nothing else you said is interesting or valid.

Keep copying other people without a clue why you're doing it. Let's see how many customers you get.

> Fortnite

The only cool thing they did (technically they didn't) - a game that is becoming a platform they can't handle.

> The idea that nobody else can make a gamedev-oriented VCS because somebody in the world made a little hobby project along those lines is frankly ludicrous.

They dropped the "folk" and just made it "lore", it's too close to our branding. It makes no sense for Epic - their site is basically a vibe coded trash version of our real one lol

All Epic does is copy other people, that's why Fortnite sucks now and the company is going downhill.