Postmortems from Game Developer: Insights from the Developers of Unreal Tournament, Black and White, Age of Empires, and Other Top-Selling Games cover
Postmortems from Game Developer: Insights from the Developers of Unreal Tournament, Black and White, Age of Empires, and Other Top-Selling Games
by Austin Grossman
ISBN: 1578202140
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xsmasher · 2014-03-04 · Original thread
The "Postmortems" book from Game Developer Magazine has a bunch of similar stories about Diablo 2, Thief, Deus Ex, AoE, and more.

http://www.amazon.com/Postmortems-Game-Developer-Developers-...

jacques_chester · 2012-01-15 · Original thread
Quite a few of the late-90s post mortems (post morta?) were collected in a book called Postmortems from Game Developer, which I learned about from Coding Horror.

http://www.amazon.com/Postmortems-Game-Developer-Developers-...

There's a kindle edition too. Recommended reading IMO.