Description

Codecks is a web-based project management software for game developers. The software is aimed at combining the simplicity of lean tools like Trello with powerful workflow support found in more training-intense enterprise tools like Jira. It’s playful unique design is inspired by trading card games, which achieve a high density of information on a small space.

History

Codecks is a powerful project management tool featuring an innovative workflow model and a playful user experience. After using the tool successfully and increasingly for the past three years, in 2019 Maschinen-Mensch and Codecks announced their collaboration by jointly starting a new company to develop Codecks further. Codecks is doubling down on game developers as their primary audience and the new Codecks GmbH is working on several new features which will highlight this focus further in the future. CEO for the new company will be Riad Djemili, who will also remain being Co-CEO of Maschinen-Mensch.

Features

• Pragmatic workflow support allowing to signal progress and issues to the rest of the team.
• Tasks inspired by card design – organized into decks and card hands.
• Milestones allow sprint based methodologies and help with keeping track of deadlines.
• Conversations happen in threads with an explicit list of participants. Comment threads have to be marked as resolved, to ensure no loose ends in e.g. reviews.
• Powerful filtering and ordering functionality to help focus on relevant tasks.
• Next-level Discord integration: the Decky bot funnels feedback and bug reports from a Discord server into plannable and transparent tasks.