I'd recommend anyone watch Becky's video¹ on the development, she had to basically redo it three times! Boss kept demanding more with less hardware. She's active on twitter too, I'm sure you'll see her discussing this article there too²

She also did the 3DO and Apple IIgs ports

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiq0OL8rzso

2. https://twitter.com/burgerbecky