Small game studios mix programmers, artists, designers and outsourced help working to milestone builds. Art reviews, bug reports and design changes happen at once, and work-in-progress screenshots vanish into long chat scrollback.

How game studios set up Tandem App

  1. Use #art, #design, #engineering and #milestone-alpha, with GitHub activity posted into #engineering.
  2. Put milestone work on the #milestone-alpha board with labels such as Art, Code, Audio and Level design.
  3. Keep concept art, the game design document and level layouts in Docs, using image previews and comments for review.
  4. Turn bug reports posted in chat into tasks, assign them and set priority.

Clients and outside people

Outsourced artists and composers join only the channels for their work as Full access guests, with an end date at the end of their contract.

What it costs

Tandem App is free for up to 3 users. Paid plans are charged per user (owners, admins and members) from $1.99 a month, and guests are free: 5 for every paid user. Every feature is on every plan. See pricing.