This series is fascinating. Loads of stories about weird hacks to make the graph...

This series is fascinating. Loads of stories about weird hacks to make the graphics cleaner, to up the polygon count, to make the animation more cartoonish, writing a dialect of Lisp to define the gameplay.

Related: an article about making Ratchet and Clank using some Jak and Daxter rendering code which Naughty Dog basically gave Insomniac for free. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/2842/postmortem_insomn...

Another great series: Jordan Mechner's diary about making the original Prince of Persia.

http://jordanmechner.com/category/old-journals/