Skejo Studios post mortem for their iOS game, Operation: Eradicate. First presented for CSU Fullerton's video game design club.

3. Initial vs. actual timelines

4. What we did wrong

5. What we did right

6. Other quick lessons

7. Maybe other stuff

11. (200K+ free downloads)

14. Full Game Center integration

15. Full Turn Based Match integration

16. Hand drawn artwork

18. Eric Michael – UI Designer (¼ PT)

19. Anthony Moss – Artist (contractor)

21. Oct 2011 - Code fleshed out and Art assets started, first round done

22. Nov 2011 - Dev and art near finish, start beta testing

23. Dec 2011 - Wrap up loose ends, ship by Christmas

25. Late Oct - Basic gameplay with dev art done, still hoping for Xmas release. Yeah right!

26. Late Oct - First hard-drawn art assets issued

27. Early Nov - Save/resume games implemented, iOS 5 turn based games (a selling point, to Apple more than anyone).

28. Late Nov - Wife got a new job, moved new city little dev done. Art still slowly making progress.

29. Early Dec - Final non-colorized artwork done. We were advised the game needed a full event driven tutorial to on-ramp players to game. Ugh! - Moved goal for launch to end of Jan.

30. Late Dec - All game programming done, first beta test sent out

32. Late Jan - Finalized, full color artwork delivered. Pushed launch to Feb. Another round of play testing, polishing, tweaking.

33. Early Feb more weeks of polishing.

34. Submitted to Apple, Tuesday Feb 14.

35. Approved by Apple, Mon Feb 20 (on my birthday)!!! Massive Marketing push ensues.

36. Released set for Sunday Feb 26 (to get in front of GDC)

38. Good for motivation

39. But don't fear them

40. Help you make better deadlines next time

42. Sometimes you get more than you paid for, just a lot later

43. Didn't get new testers for second beta

48. We are done, what if people don't like it?

52. An indirect side scrolling platformer

53. Learn anything?

55. Operation: Eradicate, www.skejo.com/eradicate.htm

56. Blog, www.tech-wanderings.com

57. Eric Michael, www.eric-michael.com

58. Anthony Moss, www.magusstudios.com