Postmortem Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Developing my first iPhone game: the inside story

by Mike Schramm (Apr 2nd, 2012)

Editor's Note: From time to time, TUAW does cover commercial apps developed by our staffers, although it is relatively rare for individuals to write about their own projects (with some notable exceptions). In this case, Mike's experience of his app development process -- going from a code-naive ...

360iDev: Lessons from the design of Postage

by Mike Schramm (Sep 14th, 2011)

Developer Chris Parrish hosted a talk this week here at 360iDev in Denver looking back on the development of Postage, RogueSheep's Apple Design Award-winning virtual postcard designer and sharing app for the iPhone. He walked the developers in the crowd through a few of the lessons he and his ...

GDC 2010: Canabalt postmortem

by Mike Schramm (Mar 11th, 2010)

"What kinds of games do you like?" Adam "Atomic" Saltsman asked of his panel audience at the Canabalt postmortem during the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco. "Role-playing" was yelled out, as was "puzzler," and eventually Saltsman picked "platformer" as the genre. Without another word, ...

GDC 2010: Call of Duty: World at War Zombies postmortem

by Mike Schramm (Mar 10th, 2010)

Russell Clarke of Ideaworks Game Studio hosted a post-mortem report near the end of the first day of GDC 2010 about Call of Duty: World at War Zombies for the iPhone. The game was one of the first big brand hits on the App Store -- it successfully brought a game mode from one of Activision's Call ...