Every wanted to know about the near disasters that occurred during the development of Galactic Civilizations II?  How about the things that went just totally wrong? What were the goals for the game? How did things come together?

Gamasutra, the web version of Game Developer Magazine, has put up our postmortem, a lengthy analysis of what went right and wrong with the development of Galactic Civilizations II.  If you've ever wanted a peak at the sausage factory that is game development, check this out.