Reddit reviews Postmortems from Game Developer: Insights from the Developers of Unreal Tournament, Black and White, Age of Empires, and Other Top-Selling Games

Interesting research subject! I've read most of Game Developer Magazine's postmortems, but never thought to find the commonalities from all of them.

For those looking to read the original postmortems, you can search /r/TheMakingOfGames or Gamasutra. There is also an out-of-print compilation called Postmortems from Game Developer of which you can find used copies. Finally, there's an online archive of the now defunct Game Developer Magazine.

Thanks for the link to the research paper. I cross-posted it to /r/TheMakingOfGames.

Non-technical:
Masters of Doom and Dungeons and Dreamers are both great for connecting the dots - seeing how "two guys in a garage" becomes a real game company.

Postmortems from Game Developer: Insights from the Developers of Unreal Tournament, Black and White, Age of Empires, and Other Top-Selling Games is a master class in how not to do project management - and very entertaining.