HacknPlan Blog Archive
Explore older product updates, workflow deep-dives, and team insights from HacknPlan.
Chris Estevez - January 26, 2017
Hi hacknplanners, This week we interview Bounder Games, an indie studio from Dundee, Scotland. Bounder Games was founded in 2014 by Sarah Herzog, Roy Stevens and Levie Drysdale, and they are currently working on their original and colorful third mobile game, Armoured Engines. Sarah talks about their experiences using HacknPlan. The goal at the...
Chris Estevez - January 22, 2017
Hi hacknplanners! This is the first update of the year and, as we promised in previous dev diaries, it comes full of new features and improvements. During the past months, we worked on some systems and backend stuff we couldn't release yet but was the foundation for many other features, so you can expect...
Chris Estevez - January 22, 2017
Hi hacknplanners, As we announced at the end of last year, we are introducing a new premium tier and making it available for pre-order and early access as we did with HacknPlan Studio. This new tier is called HacknPlan Personal Plus and its goal is to provide some of the features included in Studio but...
Chris Estevez - January 17, 2017
Hi hacknplanners, Welcome to the first entry of Studio Showcase, a new series of interviews where we will be discovering some of the studios using HacknPlan and how they use the tool to manage their projects. Our goal is to show you real examples of project management workflows and methodologies, including tricks and tips from...
Chris Estevez - December 30, 2016
Hi hacknplanners! We know you are building amazing games with the help of our platform, and we are really proud seeing how your projects progress and are successfully released. I'm quite sure many of you are interested in learning how other studios and devs are using HacknPlan to organize their projects, their tricks, their challenges and why they...
Chris Estevez - December 21, 2016
Hi hacknplanners! Welcome to the last update of the year! This iteration has been focused on milestones, changing how they work internally to allow calculating better metrics and build more features based on them. We have done a lot of work under the hood that you can't see yet but will be very relevant for features coming...
Chris Estevez - December 4, 2016
Hi hacknplanners! This new update is all about data entering and leaving the system. We finally added GitHub integration for HacknPlan Studio users, which allows you to connect your project to your GitHub repository and link commits to tasks in a very useful way. On the other hand, we added two features for everyone that...
Chris Estevez - November 20, 2016
Hi hacknplanners! This iteration has been focused on putting in place the activity log, a feature many of you have been requesting since almost the beginning. We started to build this system long ago, but we were not sure about the first approach we took and decided to rewrite it from scratch. The change was...
Chris Estevez - November 7, 2016
Hi hacknplanners! This milestone has been affected by some unexpected incidents that made us not fully complete all the tasks we planned. I'm talking about the decision that Braintree (payment gateway provider) took about not giving us service after being fully integrated with them and already receiving payments. I won't go into details now, but...
Chris Estevez - October 17, 2016
NOTE: In order to make understanding our new premium plan more intuitive, we have renamed it from HacknPlan Professional to HacknPlan Studio. We hope this makes more evident that only one account per studio is needed, which will pay for seats for the rest of the members. Hi hacknplanners! It's been a while since the last...
Chris Estevez - September 26, 2016
PRE-ORDER NOW! Hi hacknplanners, One year ago today, the first version of HacknPlan was launched. I remember this post on Reddit asking the gamedev community for feedback and trying to get our first early adopters. I was so nervous wondering if they would like the concept and would give it a try. Many of them...
Chris Estevez - September 18, 2016
Hi hacknplanners, This update comes with one of those features we have been willing to implement for quite a long time. I'm talking about the markdown editor, replacing the existing rich text editor we have been using since HacknPlan was launched, almost a year ago. And, why replacing the existing editor? Why markdown? Well, there...
Chris Estevez - September 6, 2016
Hi hackplanners, Today is a special day. Today we reached 10000 registered users in HacknPlan, and I'm writing this short post just to say THANK YOU. Now that our first birthday is really close (we launched the first version of HacknPlan beta on September 26, 2015), we can take a look back and see what...
Chris Estevez - September 4, 2016
Hi hacknplanners, This is certainly one of the most special updates of HacknPlan so far. Today I won't talk about any new features, nor visual improvements, nor relevant bug fixes. Today, we release an update that is focused on learning. Up to this moment, no documentation nor guide has been delivered, except maybe those small tooltips...
Chris Estevez - August 7, 2016
Hi hacknplanners, We haven't added any major feature during this release; instead, we have focused on several small improvements you requested many times, so I hope you are happy with the changes. Finally, we have added some keyboard shortcuts that will enhance your productivity. We still have many others to implement, but this first batch already...
Chris Estevez - July 16, 2016
Hi hacknplanners, This new update comes with several improvements on the game model tool, one of the key organizational features of HacknPlan. We have introduced several usability and navigation changes in order to simplify the usage, like a fullscreen view of the tree when no element is selected, different tabs for tasks and properties to maximize...
Chris Estevez - June 20, 2016
Hi hacknplanners! We come with very little new features this time. Instead, we have added some very valuable improvements in terms of performance and usability, that I hope you find interesting. This iteration has been a little different from the normal ones not just because of the focus on improvements, but also because we haven't...
Chris Estevez - June 6, 2016
Hi hacknplanners! A new update of your sexy game project management tool is here! This time, we added two interesting new features: a search engine that will ease your life when you need to locate a task, and also task dependencies, a way of preventing changing the status of a task until the tasks it depends...
HacknPlan Blog Archive
Explore older product updates, workflow deep-dives, and team insights from HacknPlan.
Chris Estevez - January 26, 2017
Hi hacknplanners, This week we interview Bounder Games, an indie studio from Dundee, Scotland. Bounder Games was founded in 2014 by Sarah Herzog, Roy Stevens and Levie Drysdale, and they are currently working on their original and colorful third mobile game, Armoured Engines. Sarah talks about their experiences using HacknPlan. The goal at the...
Chris Estevez - January 22, 2017
Hi hacknplanners! This is the first update of the year and, as we promised in previous dev diaries, it comes full of new features and improvements. During the past months, we worked on some systems and backend stuff we couldn't release yet but was the foundation for many other features, so you can expect...
Chris Estevez - January 22, 2017
Hi hacknplanners, As we announced at the end of last year, we are introducing a new premium tier and making it available for pre-order and early access as we did with HacknPlan Studio. This new tier is called HacknPlan Personal Plus and its goal is to provide some of the features included in Studio but...
Chris Estevez - January 17, 2017
Hi hacknplanners, Welcome to the first entry of Studio Showcase, a new series of interviews where we will be discovering some of the studios using HacknPlan and how they use the tool to manage their projects. Our goal is to show you real examples of project management workflows and methodologies, including tricks and tips from...
Chris Estevez - December 30, 2016
Hi hacknplanners! We know you are building amazing games with the help of our platform, and we are really proud seeing how your projects progress and are successfully released. I'm quite sure many of you are interested in learning how other studios and devs are using HacknPlan to organize their projects, their tricks, their challenges and why they...
Chris Estevez - December 21, 2016
Hi hacknplanners! Welcome to the last update of the year! This iteration has been focused on milestones, changing how they work internally to allow calculating better metrics and build more features based on them. We have done a lot of work under the hood that you can't see yet but will be very relevant for features coming...
Chris Estevez - December 4, 2016
Hi hacknplanners! This new update is all about data entering and leaving the system. We finally added GitHub integration for HacknPlan Studio users, which allows you to connect your project to your GitHub repository and link commits to tasks in a very useful way. On the other hand, we added two features for everyone that...
Chris Estevez - November 20, 2016
Hi hacknplanners! This iteration has been focused on putting in place the activity log, a feature many of you have been requesting since almost the beginning. We started to build this system long ago, but we were not sure about the first approach we took and decided to rewrite it from scratch. The change was...
Chris Estevez - November 7, 2016
Hi hacknplanners! This milestone has been affected by some unexpected incidents that made us not fully complete all the tasks we planned. I'm talking about the decision that Braintree (payment gateway provider) took about not giving us service after being fully integrated with them and already receiving payments. I won't go into details now, but...
Chris Estevez - October 17, 2016
NOTE: In order to make understanding our new premium plan more intuitive, we have renamed it from HacknPlan Professional to HacknPlan Studio. We hope this makes more evident that only one account per studio is needed, which will pay for seats for the rest of the members. Hi hacknplanners! It's been a while since the last...
Chris Estevez - September 26, 2016
PRE-ORDER NOW! Hi hacknplanners, One year ago today, the first version of HacknPlan was launched. I remember this post on Reddit asking the gamedev community for feedback and trying to get our first early adopters. I was so nervous wondering if they would like the concept and would give it a try. Many of them...
Chris Estevez - September 18, 2016
Hi hacknplanners, This update comes with one of those features we have been willing to implement for quite a long time. I'm talking about the markdown editor, replacing the existing rich text editor we have been using since HacknPlan was launched, almost a year ago. And, why replacing the existing editor? Why markdown? Well, there...
Chris Estevez - September 6, 2016
Hi hackplanners, Today is a special day. Today we reached 10000 registered users in HacknPlan, and I'm writing this short post just to say THANK YOU. Now that our first birthday is really close (we launched the first version of HacknPlan beta on September 26, 2015), we can take a look back and see what...
Chris Estevez - September 4, 2016
Hi hacknplanners, This is certainly one of the most special updates of HacknPlan so far. Today I won't talk about any new features, nor visual improvements, nor relevant bug fixes. Today, we release an update that is focused on learning. Up to this moment, no documentation nor guide has been delivered, except maybe those small tooltips...
Chris Estevez - August 7, 2016
Hi hacknplanners, We haven't added any major feature during this release; instead, we have focused on several small improvements you requested many times, so I hope you are happy with the changes. Finally, we have added some keyboard shortcuts that will enhance your productivity. We still have many others to implement, but this first batch already...
Chris Estevez - July 16, 2016
Hi hacknplanners, This new update comes with several improvements on the game model tool, one of the key organizational features of HacknPlan. We have introduced several usability and navigation changes in order to simplify the usage, like a fullscreen view of the tree when no element is selected, different tabs for tasks and properties to maximize...
Chris Estevez - June 20, 2016
Hi hacknplanners! We come with very little new features this time. Instead, we have added some very valuable improvements in terms of performance and usability, that I hope you find interesting. This iteration has been a little different from the normal ones not just because of the focus on improvements, but also because we haven't...
Chris Estevez - June 6, 2016
Hi hacknplanners! A new update of your sexy game project management tool is here! This time, we added two interesting new features: a search engine that will ease your life when you need to locate a task, and also task dependencies, a way of preventing changing the status of a task until the tasks it depends...
