Customize Planner Board

Is there any way of customizing the vizuals on a Planner Board.  Instead of having buckets across the columns, I would like to have buckets as 'rows' as well.  At the moment, if you use 'due date' as bucket then you get tasks progressing from right to left as time goes on.  If you were able to set that 'due date' to the vertical axis then you could have tasks moving down the page like 'Tetris'.  This would allow you to gamify the whole issue of task management.  What framework is are the web graphics built in and is it extendable?

Thanks

Ged