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A new website dedicated to video game oral histories from @mattleone.bsky.social. Find us at . Logo by asawallander.se.

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Design Room@designroom· May 14

Friday

Design Room@designroom· Apr 22

Hi, we're a new video game oral history site, and we're having a subscription sale this week. www.designroom.site/design-room-...

Original art shows all 16 colossi from Shadow of the Colossus.

Original art shows a developer working on Mirror's Edge.

Original art shows characters from Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP celebrating their game's anniversary with a cake.

A photo shows what the canceled SNES game Sound Fantasy's box art would have looked like.

Design Room@designroom· Apr 18

Archipel's latest book, The Worlds of Yoko Taro, showed up today and is beautiful. Get it here: archipel.jp/collections/...

A photo shows the cloth cover of The Worlds of Yoko Taro.

A close-up photo shows a big smile imprinted in the book's cover.

A side photo shows the book's spine, with another smile on it.

Design Room@designroom· Apr 10

Monday

Artwork shows Guy, Cody, and Haggar from Final Fight Revenge

Design Room@designroom· Mar 12

When the tutorial is the title.

A photo shows a game called Pivot where players rotate a physical couch as a controller to fit an on-screen couch into the right place.

Design Room@designroom· Mar 3

The planned box art is everything that's great about '90s CG.

Lobo kicks through a stone wall with flames behind him.

Design Room@designroom· Mar 3

Some of the art!

Lobo flies forward with large flames behind him.

A character who looks like a skinny Santa Claus poses while holding knives.

Design Room@designroom· Feb 11

In 1996 for Ultimate Gamer magazine, @vgephemera.bsky.social dug up a bunch of lost Atari projects like the Mindlink headset that let you control games using brain waves.

A photo from Ultimate Gamer magazine shows the title text "The Atari Quest."

A photo of Ultimate Gamer magazine shows photos of the Mindlink and Atari's John Skruch wearing one.

A photo from Ultimate Gamer shows an old Atari Mindlink sales brochure.

Design Room@designroom· Feb 10

Gamest, September 1991

A page from Gamest magazine shows comical illustrations of Ryu, Guile, Chun-Li, and other Street Fighter 2 characters.

Design Room@designroom· Feb 6

A lot going on here.

Design Room@designroom· Feb 5

When SNK promoted Samurai Shodown II to arcade operators with some creative math.

Design Room@designroom· Feb 4

Old game magazine photo of the day.

A photo of a 1991 issue of Gamest shows game publisher New Year's illustrations.

Design Room@designroom· Jan 31

Update for anyone visiting San Francisco: We now have a Space Channel 5 fondue.

A graphic shows Ulala from Space Channel 5 on top of a photo of cheese fondue.

A menu for the restaurant Matterhorn shows Ulala fondue for sale.

Design Room@designroom· Jan 14

Hi, we're a new video game oral history site. Some highlights so far: Mirror's Edge: bit.ly/mirrorsedgeoralhistory Sayonara Wild Hearts: bit.ly/sayonarawildhearts Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/shadowotcolossus Sound Fantasy: bit.ly/49xPfha Rez Infinite: bit.ly/4pKj0BB Find us at designroom.site.

An in-development screenshot from Sayonara Wild Hearts shows a different visual style.

A photograph shows marketing materials from the unreleased Nintendo music game Sound Fantasy.

An illustration shows a developer sitting at a desk while working on Mirror's Edge.

An illustration shows all 16 bosses from Shadow of the Colossus in a single frame.

Design Room@designroom· Jan 13

Best accidental homepage story placement.

A screenshot of two images on the Design Room homepage shows an arm from one image looking like it connects into the other image.

Design Room@designroom· Dec 22

Our music game series is now done, so let's recap it with original art by @wendyleftmealone.bsky.social.

Design Room@designroom· Dec 4

Holiday gift idea! Get someone a one-year Design Room subscription. Just go here, tip $70, and put their name, email, and the date you want it to start in the notes. www.designroom.site#/portal/supp...

An original illustration shows the four games from Design Room's Sensory Overload music game series.

A piece of concept art shows Rez Infinite's Area X level.

Design Room@designroom· Nov 20

A game starring a flying "sound warrior" that started life as a video game stage show with three people playing simultaneously, all synced to the same soundtrack? It could only be Otocky. www.designroom.site/toshio-iwai-...

Otocky illustrations from Toshio Iwai show the game's main character playing music.

A photo of Otocky's box art shows a spherical game character in the middle and a photo of a woman in the corner.

Design Room@designroom· Nov 19

Also in the main story: archival photos showing the packaging for Iwai’s canceled Super Famicom game Sound Fantasy.

Design Room@designroom· Oct 28

The Last Guardian executive producer Yasuhide Kobayashi didn't want to move the game from PS3 to PS4.

A screenshot of three paragraphs of text shows The Last Guardian executive producer Yasuhide Kobayashi saying he didn't want to move the game from PlayStation 3 to PlayStation 4.

Design Room@designroom· Oct 21

Takeshi Oga, the former Gravity Rush concept artist who did our Shadow of the Colossus cover, has just joined Bluesky. @ogatakeshi.bsky.social

The cover art for Design Room's Shadow of the Colossus oral history shows Wander in the foreground and all 16 colossus in the background.

Gravity Rush concept art shows main character Kat standing on the side of a building with a city in the background.

Design Room@designroom· Aug 20

Any excuse to post this art is a good one.

Design Room@designroom· Aug 15

With excellent art from @benbauchau.bsky.social!

Design Room@designroom· Aug 12

And look at that art from lilynishita.com!