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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 14h

And third: A look behind the scenes at how we worked with Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga on the cover art for our Shadow of the Colossus story.

The making of our Shadow of the Colossus cover art

We hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover art for our Shadow of the Colossus oral history, then we talked to him about the process.

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 14h

Second: We talked to six former Sony employees about The Last Guardian’s decade in development, and how one of them didn’t like moving it from PS3 to PS4.

Shawn Layden and others on The Last Guardian's 10+-year dev cycle

We talk to six former Sony employees about the long development cycle, the technical challenges, and the move from PlayStation 3 to PlayStation 4.

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 14h

Alongside today’s big Shadow of the Colossus oral history, we have three bonus stories for paid subscribers. First up: Our full interview with Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, talking about Wander’s character design, Warp’s influence on Team Ico, and why Ueda feels conflicted about the game’s ending.

Extended Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido interview

Parts of our interview with Shadow of the Colossus' director and line producer ended up on the cutting room floor, so we put together an extended cut for those who want to read the full thing.

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 16h

These stories take a lot of time and resources, so if you like what you see it would help greatly if you follow us here or sign up for one of our subscription options: www.designroom.site#/portal

Thanks for checking it out!

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 16h

For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 17h

The site is an experiment to see if an outlet specializing in high-production value longform feature stories can work through a subscription model. The oral histories will always be free, and we’ll supplement them with bonus stories for paid subscribers.

Read all about our plans: bit.ly/3W0rXdA

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 17h

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We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site.

• We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon
• Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n
• See more: designroom.site

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Rogue @roguesite.bsky.social · 6d

Episode 6 of Rogue Signal, our weekly podcast, is here!

This week, the crew chats about a variety of new games, like Ghost of Yotei.

And we end the show with an interview with former Polygoner @mattleone.bsky.social about his new project: @designroom.bsky.social

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Rogue Signal ep. 6: The arrival of Canadian Thanksgiving (featuring Matt Leone)

The one where we talk about Ghost of Yotei, CloverPit, and more

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 15d

Possibly the last one of these posts repromoting old Polygon oral histories -- looking back on the time we talked to the team behind Street Fighter: The Movie (the game).

Street Fighter: The Movie: The game: An oral history

Our Street Fighter history series continues with a look at the time Capcom copied the copycats

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 22d

We're running low on Polygon stories to repromote, which is probably a good sign. Here's one on Capcom vs. SNK that bookended our Street Fighter series, with art from @humanmgn.bsky.social. web.archive.org/web/20211017...

Capcom vs. SNK: An oral history

We continue our Street Fighter history series with a look at the time Capcom partnered with its crosstown rival

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · Sep 12

With great art from @stevecourtney.bsky.social.

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · Sep 12

We're a little late to tie this to the PlayStation 30th anniversary, but it's still worth looking back on this profile/pseudo oral history on PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi.

The legacy of PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi, in 24 stories

Look back at the early days of PlayStation and its ambitious, innovative and complicated father

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · Sep 9

With one of the best illustrations we ever commissioned, from @marcaspinall.bsky.social.

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · Sep 9

Looking back at the time we dug deep into Street Fighter 3 for a Polygon oral history.

Street Fighter 3: An oral history

Our Street Fighter history series continues with a look at the time Capcom tried to start over

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · Sep 3

We have no good anniversary or excuse to repost the Polygon Final Fantasy 7 oral history, but that's never stopped us before.

Final Fantasy 7: An oral history

An inside look at the creation and fallout of Square's industry-defining role-playing game, as told by those who were there.

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Rogue @roguesite.bsky.social · Sep 2

Rogue.site is now a reality! Thank you to everyone along the way who helped make it possible.

If you like what you see, and want more of it. Consider pledging your support with a subscription. Your funds will go to support independent games journalism written by humans, for humans.

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Ad-free video game news, guides, opinions, history, culture, previews, interviews, and reviews written by humans, for humans

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · Aug 28

With great art from daryashnykina.com!

Illustration – Darya Shnykina

The work of freelance illustrator Darya Shnykina

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · Aug 28

This weekend is Street Fighter’s 38th anniversary, and if that’s not a good reason to look back on Polygon’s Street Fighter 1 oral history, I don’t know what is.

Street Fighter 1: An oral history

We kick off a series of Street Fighter history stories with a behind-the-scenes look at the game that started it all

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · Aug 20

Any excuse to post this art is a good one.

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · Aug 20

Remembering the time @milkman.bsky.social went to town getting the Panzer Dragoon Saga team together for this Polygon oral history.

Panzer Dragoon Saga: An oral history

For the 20th anniversary of one of the most loved role-playing games, we tracked down 13 people who worked on it and asked them to look back

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · Aug 15

With excellent art from @benbauchau.bsky.social!

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · Aug 15

Thinking back on the time @alexjkane.itch.io‬ talked to 10 Morrowind team members -- one of Polygon's most popular features, and a story that has since been taught in college game design courses.

Morrowind: An oral history

‘Here’s a world. Go play it how you wanna play it’

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · Aug 12

And look at that art from lilynishita.com!

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · Aug 12

Going to post some of the oral histories we did at Polygon in the lead up to launching the new site. Like this Crash Bandicoot one from @metallicaisrad.bsky.social, which took a fairly well-known story and added all sorts of context and nuance to it. web.archive.org/web/20171031...

Crash Bandicoot: An oral history

A deep look back at PlayStation’s blockbuster 1996 platformer, as told by those who were there.

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · Aug 7

It's nice here. Quiet. More soon.

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