Postmortems

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Welcome to the Postmortems section. Below you'll find game designers discussing what went wrong, what went right and the different pitfalls that happened during their projects. This can be an extremely useful, and interesting, way to learn about different aspects of creating games.

"Date" is the date when the postmortem was written(if known) while "Date added" is the date when it was added to the list here. This is quite useful as you can see immediately which interviews have newly been added. Please provide dates in this format (YYYY-MM-DD) so the sorting of the columns work.

Postmortems

Game (+Link)	Author	Game Type	Description	Date	Date added
Pteroglider	Maciej Biedrzycki	Shooter	What went right and wrong with a space shooter	?	2008-06-01
Galcon	Phil Hassey	Arcade strategy	Why the game was created and review of the process (a 48-hour competition)	?	2008-06-01
Planetary Defense	Cliff Harris	Arcade strategy	Postmortem about his game Planetary Defense	2008-08-13	2008-08-17
Kudos 2	Cliff Harris	Sim	It would take approximately 10 months to make it, working from home full time, and involve 1 in-house tester, 2 artists and 1 sound guy.	2008-11-14	2008-11-15
Magic Stones	Jack Norton	Fantasy-card game	I always liked the idea of making a fantasy-card game, so I started to outline the basic idea on a piece of paper. Yes planning was essential in this kind of game, I knew it from the start (and luckily I did it).	2007-08-31	2008-11-15