The Problems You Face
Sound familiar? These are the challenges indie game studios deal with every day.
Design docs scattered across tools
Your GDD lives in Google Docs, balance data in spreadsheets, art references in Notion, and quest outlines in a wiki. Nobody knows which version is current, and onboarding a new team member means sending a dozen links with the caveat "ignore page 3, that is outdated."
No version control for design decisions
When the creative director changes the combat model in week 12, you lose the original design. There is no diff, no blame, and no way to revert. The team debates what the old system even was, wasting hours that should go toward building the game.
Contractor onboarding is painfully slow
Every new contractor or freelancer needs access to six different tools, each with its own permissions model. You spend the first day of every contract just getting people set up, and you never remember to revoke access when the contract ends.
Design experiments risk the production docs
Wanting to test a new progression curve means duplicating files, renaming them "v2-experimental," and hoping nobody accidentally edits the wrong copy. Merging the experiment back into the real docs is a manual, error-prone process.
How Gameframe Solves This
Purpose-built features for indie game studios who need more than a general-purpose tool.
Single source of truth
All your design documents, balance spreadsheets, and narrative content live in one vault with a unified version history. No more hunting across tools to find the latest version.
Branching for experiments
Branch your entire design document set to test a new economy model or combat system. Merge when the team approves, discard if it does not work out. Your production docs stay safe.
Role-based access with expiring permissions
Invite contractors with time-limited access that expires automatically. Assign viewer, editor, or admin roles per vault. One tool, one permission model.
AI-powered entity extraction
Gameframe identifies characters, items, stats, and locations across your documents automatically. When you rename a character, you see every document that references them.
Visual diffs on every change
See exactly what changed in your GDD paragraph by paragraph, or in your balance sheet cell by cell. Every change includes who made it and why.
Your Workflow with Gameframe
From setup to shipping, here is how it works.
Create a vault for your project
Set up a new vault and invite your team. Import existing docs from Markdown, Google Docs export, or start fresh with built-in templates for GDDs, balance sheets, and more.
Write and edit with full version history
Use the rich text editor for narrative docs and the spreadsheet editor for balance data. Every save creates an immutable snapshot you can return to at any time.
Branch for milestones and experiments
Before a major design review or publisher pitch, branch your docs. Collect feedback and iterate on the branch without touching the production version.
Merge, export, and ship
Merge approved changes back to main. Export balance data as JSON or CSV for your engine pipeline. Every decision is tracked in the audit trail.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions from indie game studios.
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