Every few months, when I feel the creative gears grinding or I’m searching for that spark, I return to one of my favorite rituals: diving into the GDC Classic Game Postmortems.

These sessions are time capsules of raw, honest, often hilarious reflections from the developers who shaped the medium. They’re not glossy marketing pieces or sanitized retrospectives. They’re stories of constraints, accidents, breakthroughs, and the strange alchemy that turns a handful of ideas into something unforgettable.

Over the past week, I went through a few publicly available postmortems again. This time, I decided to compile a complete list of all the sessions accessible without a GDC Vault subscription, along with direct links.

If you’re a game developer, educator, designer, or just someone who loves understanding how things are made, this collection is a goldmine.

GDC	Game Title	Speaker(s)
2015	Adventure	Warren Robinett
2012	Alone in the Dark	Frederick Raynal
2011	Bejeweled	Jason Kapalka
2019	Command & Conquer	Louis Castle, Frank Klepacki, Steve Wetherill, Eric Yeo
2013	Crystal Castles	Franz Lanzinger
2017	Deus Ex	Warren Spector
2016	Diablo	David Brevik
2011	DOOM	Tom Hall, John Romero
2011	Elite	David Braben
2012	Fallout	Timothy Cain
2012	Gauntlet	Ed Logg
2012	Harvest Moon	Yasuhiro Wada
2024	Karateka	Jordan Mechner
2013	Kick Off	Dino Dini
2019	Lemmings	Mike Dailly
2015	Loom	Brian Moriarty
2014	Lucasfilm Games	Steve Arnold, Noah Falstein, David Fox, Ron Gilbert, Peter Langston, Chip Morningstar
2011	Maniac Mansion	Ron Gilbert
2011	Marble Madness	Mark Cerny
2012	Meridian 59	Damion Schubert
2016	Ms. Pac-Man	Steve Golson
2013	Myst	Robyn Miller
2018	NBA Jam	Mark Turmell
2017	Oregon Trail	Don Rawitsch
2011	Out Of This World / Another World	Eric Chahi
2011	Pac-Man	Toru Iwatani
2019	Panzer Dragoon, Panzer Dragoon Zwei and Panzer Dragoon Saga	Kentaro Yoshida, Yukio Futatsugi
2019	Paperboy	John Salwitz
2013	Pinball Construction Set	Bill Budge
2011	Pitfall	David Crane
2011	Populous	Peter Molyneux
2011	Prince Of Persia	Jordan Mechner
2022	Q-bert	Warren Davis
2021	Quake: The End of the Original Id	John Romero
2011	Raid On Bungeling Bay	Will Wright
2016	Rez	Tetsuya Mizuguchi
2014	Robotron: 2084	Eugene Jarvis
2017	Seaman	Yutaka Saito
2014	Shenmue	Yu Suzuki
2017	Sid Meier’s Civilization	Sid Meier, Bruce Shelley
2018	Sonic the Hedgehog	Naoto Ohshima, Hirokazu Yasuhara
2015	Star Control	Paul Reiche III, Fred Ford, Rob Dubbin
2021	Star Wars Galaxies	Raph Koster, Richard Vogel
2018	The Bard’s Tale I and II	Michael Cranford
2018	Ultima Online	Raph Koster, Starr Long, Richard Garriott de Cayeux, Rich Vogel
2022	Wolfenstein 3D (Achtung!)	John Romero
2013	X-COM: UFO Defense	Julian Gollop
2015	Yars’ Revenge	Howard Scott Warshaw
2014	Zork	Dave Lebling

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