Hello. I have a question. I need a collaborative game project management application. The application should do this: - have a section for creating a game design document. - have a section for game files - be able to link content to the game design document like this: be able to link game content (such as 3d models, audio files , maps , etc- the content that should be added to the game that is) directly into the game design document. - manage the project developers - be able to connect to the other developers throught the internet and synchronize the data between every developer. and other usefull capabilities, the more the merrier :) does such an application exist? thanks in advance

You can integrate subversion and mediawiki?

I don't know about any PM tools specifically for game design, but there are some for general project management. I've used Zoho Projects to manage team members on a recent group project, although our usage was not very effective. There are also offline tools that are more or less effective, such as OpenProj, MS Project, Planner, etc. Wikis and blogs are exceptionally useful for creating collaborative content so it might be interesting to use those for your design document. Actually managing, versioning, and synchronizing files is probably best done with Subversion, as ambershee already noted. If you really need to have links from your design document, write your design document in Word or OpenOffice and insert hyperlinks to local files (it should be possible to insert relative links. Otherwise, everyone will need to mirror the directory structure.)

well thanks :)
i think i'm going with mediawiki.
subversion is not really useful right now since i am the only programmer on the team.

but just in case:
what would you recommend? subversion or cvs?

Subversion. Subversion vs CVS, in my understanding, is a bit like Windows XP vs Windows 95. Also, even for a single developer, version control is very useful because you will have access to all the code you have ever written and will never have to keep around old code for reference. Plus, you can make bold changes, secure in the knowledge that your last working copy of the game is only a couple of mouse clicks away.

Subversion or some form of version control is invaluable even if you are a single coder working on your own.

hmm in this case i'll try it out. thanks guys.

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Original post by ambershee You can integrate subversion and mediawiki?

Trac is a bug tracker + wiki, and it can be integrated with subversion.