HacknPlan Reviews

Simplicity is it's strength. The GUI interface is very friendly. It might be overwhelming first time but it's nothing compared to overpriced jira for example. It has all functionality you need to run the project and schedule it properly.

Still need some improvement with for instance Discord integration which is very crucial in game development community. Wish it has app version as well.

Hack n' Plan is really a complete tool, it has every function you wish you had in your hand.

It has for me a great fault, it is a huge overkill for an indie dev like myself and it is very expensive also, and if i was a Big Triple A dev i would simply use Jira. It is too big for a indie and too small for a big company, it stay in the valley between two possible target users and doesnt get suit and focus on one.

It has great colors, it seems to be cut right for games. It also has design document section which comes in handy.

It's hard to track categories of tasks/issues created on boards.

The learning curve seemed relatively smooth. It's designed with a fairly natural flow, particularly if you've used organizational and workflow software before. Buttons pushed do what you expect, and navigating through certain hierarchies move you to screens you expect.

It almost seems sometimes there is too much functionality, ie different ways you can navigate to the same thing. Althought I imagine in the game development world these are probably all necessary.

Hacknplans customer service is top notch and fast!

Software is still work in progress and needs new features

The tool for task management with categories, stages, and milestones. I was using Trello before but I was having issues organizing everything on a giant board. With HacknPlan I split the tasks up between the milestones but the the Game Design Model keeps the bigger picture available. Overall, this tool has made me more productive and organized in my game projects.

I'm really hoping for more updates. Everything works for the most part but some features such as dragging and dropping don't work very well in Firefox. And it needs more integrations. It just barely added support for Bitbucket but it has had Github support for much longer. They have a lot in the roadmap so it's not like the they don't know we want more, just it's still a young tool and still growing.

Its game development focus and kanban implementation has making it very intuitive to use for all members of the team.

That it doesn't have a public API. This is relevant for us as we work in Unity3D and we would love to have tasks completed from the editor itself.

This software is focused on game development task management, that means it allows you to track tasks, resources committed to each task, milestones, performance, create custom items type related to specific game dev features/mechanics. It also lets you create specific categories to anchor tasks, but it comes with a base layout that is good enough to start.

Its easy to use but its basic, can work well for small companies/projects and the customization of Design objects is limited to a fixed list of item types.

What I love the most is the way I can customize the data in the task list making it fit our projects and work style perfectly.

What I like the least about the software is the notification system. We have turned it off because if floods email/slack with notification that don't really tell anything. For example if another user adds a comment, then the comment given should be included in the email/slack notification, but I only get a notification that there is a new comment available on a given task. When you get between 10 and 50 of these a day, it get a bit annoying.

Nice overview and kaban usage. Easy way to organize tasks. A bit expensive, but the customer support is spot on.

No notifications of overdue tasks! No logical breakdown of hours invested for individuals for shared tasks. There should also be discord integration as HnP is for game dev, and discord is as well.

GDD linkage to tasks, export of GDD, easy and fast task creation, good overview of where we stand in terms of each milestone.

Nothing in particular comes to my mind, since drag and drop has been improved it works OK on small screened mobile devices now (this was my only gripe before).

The unique one for game development
Game design model

High price comparing with current features
Slow development

Fast, can access from anywhere, easy to use, streamlined for game development, also includes game design model

Pretty basic features locked behind studio license, which I won't get for my single developer purposes

It is easy to use , the interface is very intuitive and the GDM makes it a great product for game development compared with the competition

When the sidebar is present the loading circle is not aligned with the center of the custom background image, that bothers me quite a lot.

I love the agile workflow, particularly milestones and time estimation. The integrated time tracker is really nice too.

It could be a little faster/I'd love a native desktop version. The GDM could use improvements, mostly because it houses high-level aspects of the game which don't really utilize due dates or things of that nature.

Flexible boards, gantt, milesones, autosave, several assigned to one task, sub-tasks. It is also great that you can integrate several third-party services.

Like it or not, I'm not a big fan on how the game design model is. We don't have our design documentation in hacknplan, but use google docs for convenience and because people that are not part of the dev. also needs to read and review them. Hacknplan seem to be very based around the game design model, but it is a feature that we don't really use. A normal wiki (with the ability to limit some pages to only a few w. access) would be more useful.

It has a modern and intuitive look and structure. Even a beginner can use it. Free version has basic tools to manage your first projects. In addition to the free plan, it has some growing plans adding more advanced features.

it only has an English version, which can be a difficulty for some people. There is no integration with version-control tools in the free version.

Ease of use, fairly easy to add and manage tasks and milestones.
It is an easy interface for our developers to use daily.

We lack the support of having sub-milestones within a longer milestone. Within a 3 month milestone we might want to have 1 demo milestone for 3-5 weeks. with separate sprints.

Simple and Clear UI, UX
Easy to learn and apply
Many Useful features for Game Development
Flexible

Server Performance. Sometime, it's hard to connect and work.
Beside it, we need more minor features:
- Auto set deadline when a task move from Plan to InProgress if the estimate cost was filled.
- Summary Report about work loads per man monthly, weekly.
- Easier to find someone has no task assigned.
- Filter apply for all projects

Easy to use, easy to look at, easy to manage. I like the fact that it has a log hours option. Free version is nice, not sure if the paid version was worth it mostly because it's hard to keep my coworkers on task with it (however, they're also unpaid at the moment so that's understandable).

Interface takes some time to load, email notifications are okay but text is better. App would've been nice. Integrated calendar that doesn't require tasks to create dates would be nice.

Me ha gustado la implementación de la documentación con la organización del proyecto

Realmente no encuentro ninguna desventaja