Notes on game production from the team building Aligned: getting decisions into Jira without anyone typing them, so your team spends its time making the game.
A studio told us their team was spending most of their week updating Jira instead of making the game. Here is the math on what that costs, and how to get the time back.
Game studios live under NDA, and an AI planning tool sees everything. Here is exactly how Aligned is built so your codename never leaks, trains a model, or leaves your workspace.
Design docs get read once and then drift away from the actual work. Aligned turns the doc into Jira tickets so the plan and the document stay the same thing.
That photo of the level design whiteboard is a plan trapped in a JPEG. Aligned turns it into Jira tickets before the marker dries.
The 40 minutes after every planning meeting is unpaid data entry. Here is how Aligned turns the meeting itself into sprint-ready Jira tickets.
After two decades shipping God of War titles at Sony Santa Monica, one lesson stuck: small teams do not fail at making games. They fail at the paperwork between decisions and work.