Collaboration and Version Control

Templative does not stpore your games on our servers because Templative projects are entirely local projects.

Because of this, Templative easily plugs into Git, a version control system, and Drive Apps like Google Drive and One Drive.

Git Setup

Git is a tool to name versions of your project and to create "branches" of your project to try them isolation without affecting what your collaborators are doing. It makes it easy to rollback your project to what you had on Tuesday. If you and your teammate both changed the same file, Git helps you merge the two together. It is by no means required, but it is a powerful tool to have.

If you are unfamiliar with Git, watch this 20 minute crash course

If working with the command line feels intimidating, you can use an app to help you visualize it instead.

Once Git is installed on your computer, run `git init` to initalize the repository in the Templative project.

Drive Setup

In order to utilize Drive apps with Templative, you must download the desktop app version of the Drive apps. From there, create a folder for your project, and use that folder when creating a new Templative project.

Changes made by others will be propogated to you, albiet with delay.