If anyone wants to get into the game industry, the best place to start would be reading post mortems in Game Developer. Generally written by the game producers, these post mortems offer a glimpse of what it really takes to create a game, from idea to implementation.

Next Generation has started to get into the act, and they’ve posted a post mortem on the Atlus title Steambot Chronicles. What makes it even more interesting is how impressions of the game are decidedly different between the US and Japan.

A couple of zingers worth mentioning:

On a related note, we knew that Steambot’s sincere ‘tude would clash with G4′s snarky ‘tude, but we sent them a reviewable copy against our better judgment. A few of our titles are great fits for G4, but not Steambot, so we’ll be more selective with what we send them in the future. (That’s a big downer: We lust for the exposure of mainstream outlets, but can’t always trust those outlets to give fair and accurate coverage to our hardcore titles.)

A GamePro editor messaged us after receiving a review build, asking about nonexistent “bugs,” so we were prepared ahead of time for an iffy review

Click on the link to read the entire articled. And aspiring game developers, take notes…