Accelerate Your Workflow
The team at W4 Games has built games over many years, so they understand the complexities of building with customizable game engines and deploying optimized builds across multiple platforms.
W4 Build was created from the ground-up for Godot Engine to provide a comprehensive Continuous Integration (CI) solution and to provide the backbone to your automated and optimized development pipeline.
What Is W4 Build?
W4 Build is a powerful, cloud-based CI solution tailored to meet the unique needs of game developers using the Godot Engine.
Whether you're crafting custom builds, integrating proprietary code, or seeking to automate your workflow, W4 Build offers a flexible, efficient platform to help you achieve your development goals.
Why Choose W4 Build?
W4 Build is the ideal solution for various game development scenarios:
- Custom Builds Made Easy: If you need to compile the engine to create optimized builds for your game, W4 Build simplifies the process saving hours manually configuring and building for different platforms.
- Seamless Integration of Custom Code: Seamlessly integrate custom code into the engine as W4 Build handles the heavy lifting, ensuring everything fits together seamlessly.
- Pipeline Automation: Dedicate more time to coding over focus on dependencies, merging PRs, or setting up build environments.
- Build Size Optimization: Efficiently compile the features needed minimizing the size and optimizing the performance.
- Harness More Powerful Hardware: W4 Build leverages cloud infrastructure to deliver faster, more efficient builds allowing support of a range of hardware profiles.
Features
Tailor Build Profiles to Your Needs
Customize builds with specific flags to meet your project’s needs.
Build both the editor and/or export templates for all major platforms, including Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, iOS, and Web.
Support for custom Godot branches and repositories, including private forks.
Export Your Games Effortlessly
Check out your GitHub repositories via token for seamless integration.
Export games using an engine template or an official build, depending on your preference.
Automated Webhook Integration
Receive webhooks from GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket to automatically trigger builds when you push to your fork or game repository.
Send webhooks to third-party services upon build completion, keeping your workflow connected and efficient.
Coming Soon (at launch)
- GDExtension Support: Full support for GDExtension, including scons builds.
- Optimized Builds: Automatically compile only the necessary features for your project, optimizing build times and reducing game payload size.
- Direct Deployment: Deploy your builds directly to W4 Cloud, Steam, itch.io, and other platforms.
- Automated PR Merging: Let W4 Build handle PR merges for your custom engine builds.
Get early access to W4 Build and help shape its development by providing feedback and reporting bugs. The EAP is free for a limited time, giving you the opportunity to explore W4 Build’s capabilities before the full launch.
FAQ
W4 Build allows you to create optimized builds of Godot for Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, iOS, Consoles, and Web. You can also use it to export your games to these platforms using the build system. * iOS support is available for engine builds only, but will be expanded to support game export in the future.
No, W4 build is built from the ground up to use Godot as the main tool to export your games.
Unlike general-purpose CI/CD solutions, W4 Build is built exclusively for Godot, making it easier to set up and use. It provides optimized workflows for building the engine and exporting games, reducing the complexity of managing Godot-specific builds.
Currently, W4 Build supports Git LFS, so if your project uses large files stored through Git LFS, you won’t encounter any issues.
Your sensitive data is securely stored on disk using encrypted and authenticated keys, ensuring that it remains protected. When needed, the data is accessible in its decrypted form for use by your applications. Even during backup processes, the same high level of security is maintained, preventing unauthorized access or tampering.
W4 Build Integrates with popular Git repositories like GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket. This integration enables automatic builds every time a change is made, ensuring that all team members' updates are built and exported.
Additionally, W4 Build provides an easy to use deployment feature, allowing you to quickly deploy your latest builds to platforms like Itch.io and Steam.
At launch, W4 Build will support Godot versions 4.2.2-stable and 4.3-stable. While you can compile your own version of Godot, it's important to consider how it integrates with other tools, such as the Android and macOS SDKs.
As soon as new Godot versions are released, W4Games will add them to the system. While this process isn’t instant, as it requires updating several dependencies (like SDKs), we ensure everything is fully integrated before launch.
Build times depend on the complexity of your project, selected platforms, and whether you’re building the engine or exporting a game. Generally, an engine build can take 30 minutes, game exports are faster.
For all types of projects (Godot game export, Godot Engine compilation), W4 Build can manage Git submodules. The only requirement is that the main project and its submodules must have the same access. For example, if your project is private and you’ve granted an SSH key, this key must have access to all the submodules as well.
For Godot projects, compilation can include custom C++ code, and these submodules should be managed as Git submodules. Once cloned, you'll need to pass a SCons variable to indicate where the submodules are located in relation to the root of your project.
C++ Submodules:
Godot Custom Modules Documentation
Example and Docs:
Not at this time. To access additional storage, you will need to upgrade to a higher-tier plan.
Yes. If you cancel, your account will automatically be moved to the Free tier unless you choose to delete it entirely.
Subscription credits expire at the end of each month. Credits purchased through credit packs remain valid for one year from the date of purchase.
Reserved machine slots will soon be available for Studio and Enterprise subscribers. If you require this feature urgently, please reach out to us.
Standard Support allows you to submit bug reports. Premium Support, available through our support portal, provides direct access to the W4 Build team for questions and issue triage. As a limited-time promotion, Premium Support is included at no cost for all paid users.