How to Automate Your Quest Build Pipeline | Mentor Workshop

Manual builds are a tax on your team's attention. Shane Nilsson, director of Coal Car Studio, maps out the CI/CD pipeline his studio runs across five self-hosted machines, showing how automated triggers and quality gates keep every build consistent and easy to review. He rounds out the session with a practical look at Unity Accelerator and how his team cut clean build times from ninety minutes to thirty.

💡 By watching this video, you will learn how: 

• CI/CD triggers run builds automatically so no developer has to initiate them by hand.
• Quality gates and linters catch errors before review, keeping code review focused on architecture rather than formatting.
• Version-tagged artifact management keeps your QA team on the correct build and cuts regression analysis from hours to minutes.
• Unity Accelerator and Build Server licenses cut clean build times significantly 

 

This session was recorded live in February 2026 as part of the Meta Horizon Start program. 

 

🎬 CHAPTERS

👋 INTRODUCTION

🕒 00:00: What Is CI/CD: Core Terminology and Definitions

📐 PART 1: PIPELINE ARCHITECTURE

🕒 01:13: Triggers, Runner Pools, and Release Channels

🕒 03:55: Full CI/CD Flow: Trigger to Artifact to Deployment

⚙️ PART 2: REAL BENEFITS FROM A WORKING STUDIO

🕒 07:38: Developer Time Savings and Iteration Speed

🕒 09:34: QA, Regression Testing, and Version-Tagged Builds

🕒 10:48: Linters and Code Quality Enforcement

🛠️ PART 3: TOOLS AND PLATFORMS

🕒 12:46: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps Compared

🕒 16:17: Self-Hosted vs. Cloud Runners: Trade-offs and Costs

🚀 PART 4: UNITY TOOLS AND STUDIO CONFIGURATION

🕒 21:39: Unity Build Server Licenses and Unity Accelerator

🕒 29:01: Shane's Full Studio Stack and Pipeline Walkthrough

🕒 33:44: Wrap-Up and Q&A

 

📚 RESOURCES

➡️ Developers Blog: https://developers.meta.com/resources/blog/

➡️ Meta Quest Developer Hub: https://developers.meta.com/horizon/documentation/unity/ts-mqdh/

 

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