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Trent Oster's Analysis of the Development of Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition

JalilyJalily Member Posts: 4,681
edited April 2013 in Archive (General Discussion)
Trent Oster just did a feature for Gamasutra, outlining what went right and what went wrong during development. I thought people might be interested:

http://gamasutra.com/view/feature/190432/postmortem_overhaul_games_.php
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  • mfr001mfr001 Member Posts: 43
    edited April 2013
    @Jalily Very interesting feature, which gave me more of an understanding of what was involved, but ...

    The title of the thread could be misinterpreted by those who are susceptible to panic attacks.

    I believe there are a few forward-thinking doctors who believe that it is better to leave the postmortem until after the patient is dead.
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  • DrugarDrugar Member Posts: 1,566
    Good article, I always appreciate it when developers give detailed insight in when/how problems got started and what it will take to solve them, instead of just saying "We're aware of the problem and we're working on it".
    Excellent read.
  • mjsmjs Member Posts: 742
    good article, very insightful
  • ZeratulZeratul Member Posts: 575
    Damn lost art! I want Bg HD now!
  • JuliusBorisovJuliusBorisov Member, Administrator, Moderator, Developer Posts: 22,754
    It's so great the Devs are open to the community! I find it really important that we can help to make the game better! And I appreciate the level of sincerity of the Devs a lot!

    Trent to BG2EE: "Hello child, shall we continue your lessons?"
  • LemernisLemernis Member, Moderator Posts: 4,318
    mfr001 said:

    @Jalily Very interesting feature, which gave me more of an understanding of what was involved, but ...

    The title of the thread could be misinterpreted by those who are susceptible to panic attacks.

    I believe there are a few forward-thinking doctors who believe that it is better to leave the postmortem until after the patient is dead.

    Yeah, the thread title is accurate but it is perhaps not the best title for the article itself.
  • Excalibur_2102Excalibur_2102 Member Posts: 351
    Trent said:

    The end result is a little less graphical flash for launch than we had initially planned, but we actually had a bit more time to make more widespread improvements as a result, so the project is different; in some ways larger, but still pretty awesome.

    Interesting that he says "For launch".. Perhaps something else is planned for graphics??
  • smeagolheartsmeagolheart Member Posts: 7,963
    Lemernis said:

    mfr001 said:

    @Jalily Very interesting feature, which gave me more of an understanding of what was involved, but ...

    The title of the thread could be misinterpreted by those who are susceptible to panic attacks.

    I believe there are a few forward-thinking doctors who believe that it is better to leave the postmortem until after the patient is dead.

    Yeah, the thread title is accurate but it is perhaps not the best title for the article itself.
    Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition is dead. Long live Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition? Or something
  • JalilyJalily Member Posts: 4,681
    Postmortem is a standard industry term for these kinds of analyses, which are typically done after release. Gamasutra has a whole section for them: http://www.gamasutra.com/features/postmortem/

    But I'll change the title if it bothers people.
  • mfr001mfr001 Member Posts: 43
    @Jalily Not really worth the bother of changing it, but I did a quick double-take when I read it early in the morning! Shortly after, common sense kicked in.
  • shawneshawne Member Posts: 3,239
    Good to know lessons have been learned from previous missteps. BG:EE still isn't the game it should be - the game that makes Original BG obsolete - but it might get there eventually...
  • RedGuardRedGuard Member Posts: 672
    It's nice to see that they can look over their work objectively and also advertise that publicly.
  • ajwzajwz Member Posts: 4,122
    Jalily said:

    Postmortem is a standard industry term for these kinds of analyses, which are typically done after release. Gamasutra has a whole section for them: http://www.gamasutra.com/features/postmortem/

    But I'll change the title if it bothers people.

    Could have been worse - you could have called it an autopsy ;p
  • BelgarathMTHBelgarathMTH Member Posts: 5,653
    I like the new thread title.
  • WanderonWanderon Member Posts: 1,418
    Excellent read - thanks again for all the hard work that brought this game to reality!
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