TITLE
Postmortem: Thief: The Dark Project
AUTHOR
Tom Leonard
PUBLICATION
Game Developer
YEAR
1999
ARTICLE TYPE
Postmortem
FROM THE ARTICLE
Thief: The Dark Project is one of those games that almost wasn’t. During the long struggle to store shelves, the project faced the threat of cancellation twice. A fiscal crisis nearly closed the doors at Looking Glass. During one seven-month span, the producer, project director, lead programmer, lead artist, lead designer and the author of our renderer all left. Worse still, we felt a nagging fear that we might make a game that simply was not fun. But in the end, we shipped a relatively bug-free game that we had fun making, we were proud of, and that we hoped others would enjoy.
COMPANIES MENTIONED
Looking Glass Studios
GAMES MENTIONED
Thief: The Dark Project
ALTERNATE LINK
Archived Copy @ Internet Archive
PRINT AVAILABILITY
July 1999