Seeing the #gamedev community use the word #postmortem to just mean "some post release analysis" is pretty confusing. (Most recently in yathzee's latest #SecondWind video about his startstruck vagabond).
Where I come from, it signifies some rather spectacular explosion in the project. Which always has me worried if I see it show up.
At the very least it is rather cynical and morbid, don't you think?
@CIOSAI_tw not sure when it got introduced in more general project management. I always hated it.
But generally speaking I associate it with "something pretty bad happened, let's analyze and prevent for the future". Specifically in the context of a root cause analysis or something.
But in gamedev it seems to denote just a general post-release thing. Yathzee even opened with " this has been my most successful game ever". Which causes a strange whiplash :)
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Gamasutura used to regularly do post-mortems on games a while after they'd released, and a lot of gamers seemed to be of the same opinion: "why are they doing a post-mortem, this game's not dead", when often it was just a "what can we learn (good or bad) about this game from people who worked on it"
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