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Plan the whole game on one living board.

Pin your references, mark them up and map your production as a network of tasks, milestones and bugs. Float it over your engine while you work, and plan with your whole team in real time.

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The sample game roadmap in Venom Board
Why Venom Board

References, roadmap and the plan in your head, together.

Game production lives in three places at once: a folder of reference images, a task list, and the plan of what unlocks what. Venom Board puts all three on one canvas.

A reference board

Paste screenshots, drop in concept art and scribble over it with markers and highlighters, PureRef-style.

A real roadmap

Phases, milestones, estimates, MoSCoW priorities, due dates and bug severity on every card.

A dependency network

Drag a tendril from one card to the next and the board works out what's blocked and what's ready to start.

An overlay

Pin it on top of Unreal, Unity or Godot, turn the opacity down and let clicks pass straight through.

Venom Board Teams

Build the plan together, live.

Every card, tendril, image and stroke your team adds appears on everyone's board the moment it happens. You see each other's cursors, selections and typing, like editing a place together in a game engine.

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Share a boardTurn any board into a shared project. It shows up in the team's project list for everyone.
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Edit boards and add projects–✓✓✓
Invite editors and viewers––✓✓
Make admins, hand over or delete the team–––✓
Features

Everything a game production board needs.

Reference board

  • Infinite canvas with zoom at the cursor, panning and a minimap
  • Paste screenshots with Ctrl+V or drag images in from anywhere
  • Markers in 8 colours, highlighters and an eraser. Ink sticks to the card it's drawn on
  • GIFs, videos and YouTube or Vimeo links as references
  • Snap guides, align, distribute, pack into a grid, lock items
  • Search every board and team project at once

Production planning

  • Task, Milestone, Bug and Idea cards with status, discipline, priority, estimates and due dates
  • Place next: drag a tendril into empty space and choose what comes next
  • Waits on N, a ready-to-start filter and dependency tracing
  • Phase frames with progress, a planner with milestone countdowns and a burndown chart
  • A timeline with the critical path that decides your finish date
  • 10 templates, import from Trello, Jira or CSV, and Markdown and CSV export

Overlay and teams

  • Pin on top, opacity slider and click-through with a global shortcut
  • Lock the window, hide the top bar or the whole interface
  • Live team projects with cursors, follow and present
  • Assign cards, comment and @mention, with notifications by email or in the app
  • Version history, view-only share links, an activity feed and Discord updates
  • Leader, admin, editor and viewer roles, and two-step sign-in
A closer look

Built for the way game devs plan.

Planner panel with progress and filters
Planner. Progress, milestone countdowns and filters that dim the rest of the board.
Close-up of task cards
Cards. Discipline, priority, estimates, due dates, checklists and dependencies.
Place next picker
Place next. Drag a tendril into empty space to choose the next card.
Template gallery
Templates. Ten ready-made game production structures.
Templates

Start from a template.

Roadmaps, design docs, game jams, Steam launches and more, free. Open one in the web app in a click, or from Templates in the desktop app.

Game roadmap template in Venom BoardProduction

Game roadmap

Pre-production to launch, with dated milestones.

 Design doc outline template in Venom BoardDesign

Design doc outline

Pitch, pillars, core loop, scope and cuts.

 Game jam · 48 h template in Venom BoardGame jams

Game jam · 48 h

Prototype, content, then submit on time.

 Steam launch template in Venom BoardLaunch

Steam launch

Store page, trailer, Next Fest, release day.

 Vertical slice template in Venom BoardMilestones

Vertical slice

Eight must-haves converging on a date.

 Art moodboard template in Venom BoardArt direction

Art moodboard

Characters, environments, palette, UI, VFX.

See all templates

Get it

Free, on desktop and in the browser.

Desktop app

For Windows, macOS and Linux. Pin on top, opacity and click-through, and it keeps itself up to date with signed updates.

Windows 10 and 11 · macOS · Linux · v1.3.1 Download

Web app

The same board in Chrome, Edge or Firefox. Sign in to work on your team's projects from any computer.

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Source code

MIT licensed. Build it yourself, report bugs or suggest the next feature on GitHub.

Node.js 22+ View on GitHub

Also on itch.io. Try Venom Board right on its itch.io page, follow it there for updates and leave a comment.

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