The work behind the game goes unseen
Bug fixes, QA passes, asset tweaks, and polish keep the build moving, but rarely get recognized.
Gaming
You build the game. MagicTask
You build the game. MagicTask
makes the work feel like one.
Track builds, sprints, art, and QA in one place, with progress and rewards built into the work your studio already does.
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Why It Matters
Keep the whole build moving
Design, art, engineering, and QA in sync
One place for tasks, builds, and milestones
Progress that recognizes the work behind the game
The Problem
Game dev shouldn’t feel like admin
The board falls behind the build
As deadlines get closer, updating tickets becomes another thing to keep up with, and the board stops reflecting what’s actually happening.
Crunch kills the momentum
Long builds, shifting priorities, and repetitive tasks make it harder to keep the team engaged when the finish line still feels far away.
The Workspace
Everything a studio runs on
Log it the moment it breaks
A bug shows up mid-playtest, type it, hit Enter, and it’s on the board with a size, owner, and due date. Quick enough that art and QA use it too.
Every discipline, one build
Each project holds a game or milestone. Sections split it by discipline, so art, design, engineering, and QA share one build instead of a tangled backlog.
Plan on the board, grind on the list
Board view to move work across stages. List view when you’re heads-down before a build. Toggle instantly, sections become your columns.
One source QA and engineering share
Repro steps, build numbers, and screenshots live on the task, not buried in a Discord thread nobody can search later.
Reassign in one click
An artist’s out, a feature’s blocked, a milestone shifts. Move it in a click, no hunting for who owns what.
THE GAME LAYER
You build games. Now work inside one.
You know every trick in here, because you build them.
So we didn’t paint points on a to-do list, we built
a real one.
Hit the right milestones along the way and badges
drop separately, including a few Easter eggs you
won’t see coming.
Progress comes from the work itself. Push far enough
and you face the boss of your Dungeon, beat it, and
the chest is yours: a skin, a pet, or a background.
You engineer this feeling for players
every day. This time you’re the one
playing.
THE PAYOFF
Why it works
Why it works
for game studios
The board stays current through crunch
People update it because it moves their own progress, not because a lead chased them mid-sprint.
Invisible work gets seen
The QA pass and the hundredth bug fix show up as progress, not just the flashy feature someone shipped.
It survives the whole dev cycle
The reward loop keeps the team opening it in month eight of a build, when a normal tracker would have gone stale by month two.
Honest Comparison
The tools your team has probably tried
Runs studio engineering workflow well, but it’s engineer-first, so art and design drift away and the board slowly stops matching reality.
Habitica takes the closest approach to this, a fun retro RPG for solo habits, but it’s built for personal use, not running a studio across art, design, and QA.
HacknPlan is built for game dev and does that job well. It’s still a tracker, so it gives the team no reason to keep it current once crunch sets in.
MagicTask is built for a studio, and the game runs on the actual work, so the board stays current and the effort that usually goes unnoticed finally counts.
