University of Illinois computer science student Kevin Dressel, ACM Gamebuilder member, and project lead, lead programmer, artist for the QuantumS game project, published his account of the development cycle on GameCareerGuide.
QuantumS is stealth-based puzzle game created by a team of students from ACM Gamebuilders, a special interest group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In quantumS, you play as a young boy who must use his time traveling power to evade guards, solve puzzles, and escape the ship he's trapped on. The game play revolves around recording your actions to the timeline, and teaming up with past versions of yourself, which repeat everything you did before traveling back in time.
Kevin details many of the things that went right in the development process, and provides advice to other game developers about pitfalls to avoid in their own projects.
View the complete post-mortem at: gamecareerguide.com/features/708/features/708/rapidfire_student_postmortem_.php.
Play QuantumS at: www.acm.uiuc.edu/gamebuilders/projects/quantums/.