AlterLab GameForge -- Game Development Post-Mortem

The game industry has the best post-mortem tradition in software. Gamasutra's classic post-mortem series — Diablo II, Baldur's Gate, Black & White, Thief — taught an entire generation of developers more than any textbook because they were brutally honest. Five things that went right. Five things that went wrong. No spin, no corporate sanitizing, no "learnings and opportunities." Just the truth about what happened when a team tried to ship a game.

This workflow follows that tradition. Not Scrum retrospectives. Not agile ceremonies. Game development post-mortems — the format that Supergiant used to iterate Hades from a decent roguelike into a genre-defining masterpiece, that ConcernedApe used to survive five years of solo development on Stardew Valley without losing his mind, that the Dwarf Fortress brothers used to sustain a twenty-year development cycle without burning out or losing direction.