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Game Design » Presentations » Classic Game Postmortem: Star Wars Galaxies

Classic Game Postmortem: Star Wars Galaxies

 

This postmortem was presented remotely at GDC 2021 by myself and Rich Vogel as part of their Classic Game Postmortem series.

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