A Step-by-Step Guide to Planning and Executing a Game Development Sprint
Learn how to plan and execute a game development sprint.
The Indie Developer’s Guide to Publishing Without a Publisher
Learn all you need to know about publishing your game without a publisher as an indie developer
Why Project Management is Essential for Indie Game Development Success
Find out why project management is important in indie game development, and what good project management can bring.
How to Build Better Collaboration in Game Development Teams
Tips and best practices to improve collaboration on your game development team.
How to Avoid Scope Creep in Game Development: Tips and Best Practices
Tips and best practices to avoid scope creep when making your game.
Navigating the EU Ecosystem for Indie Gaming: Getting Your Game Funded
How to get your game funded in the EU
Bringing Playfulness to Project Management: Codecks Reaches €1 Million Investment With EU Grant to Fuel Expansion and Innovation in Game Development Project Management
Codecks reaches 1 million in investment with EU grant
From Sprints and Lists to Runs and Decks: How Playfulness in Project Management Drives Efficiency
How does a playful approach benefit project management in game development?
How to pitch your game to publishers (+ Template)
Unlock the secrets to a standout game pitch. From storytelling to slide essentials, master the art of grabbing a publisher's attention.
Going to a Game Conference like a Pro (22 tips, you might not know)
How to make the most out of your visit, from prep to visit to follow-up.
8 Best Project Management Tools for Game Development (The Ultimate List)
Which project management tool is the best for game developers?
How to create effective Video Game Trailers
Our best tips for creating an engaging video game trailer.
Designing your Steam Store page (Best Practices)
What to look out for when setting up your Steam store page.
Writing Modern Game Design Documents (+Examples)
Our best practices for Game Design Documents and how to manage them with Codecks.
Community Management for Games (Why and how to do it with Codecks)
How we're rethinking the game dev process by integrating your community.
From Kingdom to Cloud Gardens
Thomas van den Berg talks about how he created the indie hit game Kingdom and his new game Cloud Gardens.
Indie Game Marketing Tricks
Philomena Schwab of Stray Fawn Studio talks about the best techniques for indie game marketing right now.
Creating Thought-Provoking Games
Ata Sergey Nowak from Topor Games talks about creating political games and sharing company ownership.
How 11 Bit Studios publishes games
Marek Ziemak from 11 Bit Studios talks about publishing and what a 11 Bit Game is.
Ultimate list of the best Analysis Tools for Steam Developers
All Steam Tools for Game Devs that you should know about.
Video Game Production With Codecks from A to Z
Case Study for how Maschinen-Mensch uses Codecks to create games. Everything from project structure to Discord integration.
Survival Guide for Early Access Game Developers
A new approach to the game development life cycle and how to do it right.
The complete sales history of modest indie hit game Curious Expedition (2021 Update)
We decided to share the complete sales history of Curious Expedition 1. All the details by year, region, platform + dev history, marketing and more. We crunched the numbers!
Codecks is now free for small teams!
Introducing Free and Enterprise plans for small and big teams!
Networking for Indie Game Devs
Daniel Helbig and Jan Bubenik from Megagon Industries talk about their work on Lonely Mountains: Downhill
Should you use time tracking for your game project?
Daniel shares his experiences on why time tracking for game development is a great idea.
Ultimate list of all tools we used to create a hit HTML5 game on Steam
The ultimate list of (almost) everything we used to create our premium Steam hit game Curious Expedition.
Feature Roundup September 2019
September has brought you precious UI improvements such us "Wide mode" as well as updates related to payments.
Discord for Game Developers
Codecks is the project management tool for game developers with built-in Discord integration! Community management and task management combined!
Mastering Multiple Projects in Parallel
Treating Projects as isolated silos has become an issue for bigger teams working with lots of projects. Check out how our latest release solves it with fundamental changes.
Codecks 2.0 – For Game Developers by Game Developers
Codecks is joining forces with Machinen-Mensch. Powered with inside knowledge, we'll now have a laser focus on game devs.
Project vs. Personal tags
Teams that religiously maintain and use a clean taxonomy will always have more control over their project.
Lessons Learnt Rewriting a React Library from Scratch
After over a year of using React Reform I decided to rewrite it from scratch. This resulted in a much improved api. This post describes which patterns in particular have been useful.
Introducing React Reform
React Reform allows you to create powerful themes for pleasant-to-use forms with React. This post gives a motivation for the creation of this library.
A little more conversation (but keep up the action)
Conversations you are actively involved in will always show up in the very top row so that you can prioritise them.
Inching towards closed beta
We now have a handful of friends and indie game developers that are using the development version of Codecks, warts and all.
Out of the cave, blinded by the light
We feel pretty good about all the subtle innovations we made to the basic formula offered by most project management tools.
The deck-building metaphor (and mechanic)
Choosing deck building as a mechanic for Codecks was as much a cultural choice as a natural way to think about bundling activities in contextual chunks.
Making tools for game developers
Rather than use a tool that assumes order and fails when faced with the reality of game development, we're building a tool that assumes chaos and, in spite of that, reduces the stress that comes with it.
Does the world really need another project management tool?
We all know that the creation, prioritization and monitoring of tasks (or ‘to-dos’) form the basic vocabulary of just about every group attempting to complete a project, big or small.