Gamasutra has the Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion post-mortem up.  It goes into the highs and lows of the development of Sins Rebellion.

It was a pretty fascinating project. It was often hard to tell where Stardock stopped and Ironclad began and vice versa. The companies shared a global code base of the project (secured high speed Internet FTW) and this resulted in a ton of improvements that never really got listed in bullet points. But those who have the game know what I mean – What makes Sins Rebellion so awesome isn’t just the new features but it’s the hundreds of little tweaks and touch ups that would be absurd to list in a bullet list.

Given its success it’s going to be interesting to see what’s next for the franchise.

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