Design Room
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A new website dedicated to video game oral histories from @mattleone.bsky.social. Find us at designroom.site. Logo by asawallander.se.
In less than three months!
January 16, 2026 at 5:08 PM
In less than three months!
This is an excerpt from @metallicaisrad.bsky.social's new Guitar Hero/Rock Band oral history book from @readonlymemory.com, which is available now.
The Oral History of Guitar Hero, Rock Band and the Music Game Boom
The Oral History of Guitar Hero, Rock Band and the Music Game Boom tells the full inside story of a gaming phenomenon that lived fast and died young. Building on Blake Hester’s acclaimed 2021 Vice art...
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January 15, 2026 at 6:27 PM
This is an excerpt from @metallicaisrad.bsky.social's new Guitar Hero/Rock Band oral history book from @readonlymemory.com, which is available now.
Lots of new details in here on how the game came about, discarded experiments, sequel attempts, and more. With header art from the great @kim-hu.com.
January 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Lots of new details in here on how the game came about, discarded experiments, sequel attempts, and more. With header art from the great @kim-hu.com.
And finally, we talked with Simogo about Sayonara Wild Hearts' best stage, why it took them a year to finish it, and the challenges of building something new. www.designroom.site/how-simogo-b...
How Simogo built Sayonara Wild Hearts' best stage
We talk with four members of the team about how "Begin Again" came about, why it took them a year to finish it, and the challenges of building something new.
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December 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
And finally, we talked with Simogo about Sayonara Wild Hearts' best stage, why it took them a year to finish it, and the challenges of building something new. www.designroom.site/how-simogo-b...
Iwai had lots to say about his first game, the Famicom musical shooter Otocky, as well, so we then made that into its own story.
A rhythm-based shoot-'em-up in... 1987?
Before making Sound Fantasy and Electroplankton with Nintendo, Toshio Iwai designed a Famicom Disk System game starring a flying “sound warrior” called Otocky.
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December 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Iwai had lots to say about his first game, the Famicom musical shooter Otocky, as well, so we then made that into its own story.
Next, @radishgames.com tracked down Toshio Iwai to talk about the canceled SNES first-party game Sound Fantasy and how that ultimately led to Electroplankton.
Toshio Iwai's journey from Sound Fantasy to Electroplankton
We profile the artist behind two of Nintendo's attempts at making experimental music games -- one a canceled Super Famicom game based on musical insects, and the other a Nintendo DS cult-favorite base...
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December 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Next, @radishgames.com tracked down Toshio Iwai to talk about the canceled SNES first-party game Sound Fantasy and how that ultimately led to Electroplankton.