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For this this jam, I went with old faithful, Trello.\n\n\n**What is Trello?**\n\nIf you haven't used it before, Trello is a free and super intuitive web-based kanban board-styled tool. Trello allows you to organise your ideas into 'boards', which you can then add 'buckets' (columns) with nested 'cards' under them. I use Trello a lot in collaborative meetings at work, but it's also really useful for very quickly mapping out ideas across a wide range of topics.\n\nHere's a look at the board I set up for The Plant Shop.\n\n![Trello.PNG](\/\/\/raw\/623\/03\/z\/33361.png)\n\n\n**How I organised my board**\n\nAfter reading the theme and mapping out some initial thoughts and ideas on paper, I headed to Trello to start collating and fleshing these themes out somewhat more. Getting this content down in a more structured way really helps focus your development and what you're aiming to create. I also added a design + development checklist to the far left of the board to help me keep track of my feature and design goals which I then marked off (red - didn't complete, yellow - in progress, green - completed).\n\nSince submitting my game, I've been using the same board to collate user feedback and feature requests, which i'll then synthesise and flesh out to then update the game at a later date.\n\n\n**How did you do it?**\n\nHow did you manage your development for this jam? 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For this this jam, I went with old faithful, Trello.\n\n\n**What is Trello?**\n\nIf you haven't used it before, Trello is a free and super intuitive web-based kanban board-styled tool. Trello allows you to organise your ideas into 'boards', which you can then add 'buckets' (columns) with nested 'cards' under them. I use Trello a lot in collaborative meetings at work, but it's also really useful for very quickly mapping out ideas across a wide range of topics.\n\nHere's a look at the board I set up for The Plant Shop.\n\n![Trello.PNG](\/\/\/raw\/623\/03\/z\/33361.png)\n\n\n**How I organised my board**\n\nAfter reading the theme and mapping out some initial thoughts and ideas on paper, I headed to Trello to start collating and fleshing these themes out somewhat more. Getting this content down in a more structured way really helps focus your development and what you're aiming to create. I also added a design + development checklist to the far left of the board to help me keep track of my feature and design goals which I then marked off (red - didn't complete, yellow - in progress, green - completed).\n\nSince submitting my game, I've been using the same board to collate user feedback and feature requests, which i'll then synthesise and flesh out to then update the game at a later date.\n\n\n**How did you do it?**\n\nHow did you manage your development for this jam? I'd love to know.\n\nIf you want to check out The Plant Shop, click here: https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/46\/the-plant-shop","title":"How I managed development for The Plant Shop","wayback_source":[]}