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After trial · 1 project · no time limit
- Backward planning for 1 game
- Phases, milestones, items (features & bugs)
- MoSCoW Kanban per phase
Software for video game producers: align, arbitrate, hit the ship date
As a producer, you hold the course: align the team, arbitrate features and bugs, keep ship date in sight. Orchesia gives you backward planning, priorities, and workload per sprint — without chasing information.
Three situations every producer knows
The team moves forward, but not in the same direction
Everyone knows what they're doing, no one has the big picture. Efforts scatter and priorities contradict each other from role to role.
Scope grows, no one decides
Features pile up along the way. Without clear arbitration, ship date approaches and the game is never "done."
Overload discovered too late
Workload is never compared to real capacity. Delays only show when crunch is the only answer left.
Your role, tooled up
What Orchesia changes for a producer
A team aligned on the same course
Backward planning from ship date becomes the shared reference. Everyone sees phases, milestones, and what must be ready — without a meeting to rediscover it.
Scope you truly arbitrate
Prioritize features and bugs with a Must / Should / Could / Won't Kanban. You decide what goes in the build and what drops — explicitly, not by default.
Workload under control, sprint by sprint
Visualize workload per cycle against team capacity. You spot overheated sprints before they are paid for in crunch.
Visual tracking: Kanban and charts
Manage features and bugs on Kanban boards per phase (Must, Should, Could, Won't) and build the charts you need. Each phase's status is readable at a glance — for you and the team.
Your daily life as a producer, from scoping to tracking
Three stages to stay on course.
Set backward planning from the date
Place your phases (prototype, vertical slice, production, alpha, beta) working back from ship or demo date. The whole team shares the same course.
Arbitrate features and bugs by priority
In each phase, create items (features, bugs, tasks) and decide with MoSCoW Kanban. Your arbitration becomes visible to the whole team.
Manage workload and multiple projects
With cycles (your sprints), allocate people and hours, track workload against team capacity, and build the charts you need to follow progress.
The content of a cycle, bounded by real capacity
The backlog feeds cycles whose gauge shows what the team can absorb. What overflows appears at assignment, not at the sprint review.
Dependencies between art, code and design made visible
An asset the gameplay is waiting on, a feature waiting on a tool: these chains block production while they stay implicit. The dependency network exposes them before the cycle starts.
Publisher milestones committed, variance real
The schedule signed off at the start of production serves as the reference. At each milestone the variance is dated and tied to a specific task — enough to arbitrate scope rather than push the date.
Offres payantes · mode structuré
Large scope, date to calculate? Switch to structured mode.
When scope is broad and the date is calculated from content rather than imposed, Orchesia structures the project (WBS), models dependencies (PERT), calculates the critical path, and generates the schedule — with AI-accelerated formatting.
Avant
Without a shared course
The studio moves in scattered order.
- Team pulling in different directions
- Scope never decided, features piling up
- Contradictory priorities between features and bugs
- Workload never compared to capacity
- End-of-production crunch as the only way out
Apres
With Orchesia
The studio moves behind the same course.
- Shared backward planning from ship date
- Scope explicitly arbitrated (Must, Should, Could, Won't)
- Clear priorities between features and bugs
- Workload anticipated sprint by sprint
- Ship date met by arbitrating scope, not sacrificing the team
Scoping is the first step skipped
- 48%
of organisations do not produce scoping documents, or not consistently
Wellingtone, State of Project Management 2021 - 52%
do not consistently build a project schedule
Wellingtone, State of Project Management 2021 - 42%
do not consistently apply a defined methodology
Wellingtone, State of Project Management 2021
Run your production for free
30-day free trial · No commitment · No credit card
At the end of the trial, continue free on a simplified project, or choose a paid plan for multiple projects and structured mode.
Paid plans
From€15/month
For multi-project producers and large scopes
- Multiple projects
- Structured mode (WBS, PERT, Gantt)
- AI credits
- Multi-seat collaboration
Frequently asked questions
No. You can run backward planning for one game for free (a simplified project), without a credit card. Advanced features (multiple projects, structured mode, AI) are on paid plans.
Yes. A cycle is a work period (your sprint) on which you plan workload, distribute items, and track progress.
No. Orchesia is for scoping, planning, and arbitrating: backward planning, phases, milestones, feature and bug prioritization. It centralizes planning and priorities without replacing fine-grained ticket tracking or your engine.
Yes. On a paid plan, you coordinate multiple projects in the same workspace, track workload per sprint, and build your dashboards.
No. It's primarily the producer's and production team's tool; items can be shared without everyone needing to log in.
A few hours. The tool builds on familiar concepts: phases, milestones, sprints, feature and bug prioritization.
Further reading
The methods behind the tool, explained in detail.
Scope creep: why projects grow without anyone decidingScope creep is rarely a single bad decision. It is the accumulation of small additions nobody logged, on a scope that was never fully written down.
Hidden dependencies: why blockers appear too lateMost project delays do not come from tasks running long. They come from dependencies nobody modelled — discovered at the moment they block something.
Your team needs a course. Give it to them.
Set backward planning, arbitrate scope, and hit ship date — free on one game. Upgrade to paid plans for multiple projects and structured mode.
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