avoid developing Unity projects on Dropbox

When I started out with game development, I used to develop my games on Dropbox.

A few issues with that:

• data limit of 2gb for free tier
  • Projects count towards everyone’s limit, so if someone has done a few gamejams already, they can’t join without removing a few old projects.
• The Unity Library is uploaded by default, unnecessarily increasing project size and creating conflicts. This should be excluded from your version control, e.g. with a git ignore on git, or a perforce ignore on Perforce
  • it is possible to exclude it manually
• data is instantly uploaded, quickly resulting in conflicts.

Backlinks¶

• gamejam version control review
  • A lot of gamejam suffered from dropbox for version control, see avoid developing Unity projects on Dropbox.