Congrats on making it past the Maze Island palace! Looking forward to seeing you finish Zelda 2 next stream.

Design Room is six months-old (and we're having a sale) Six months in, we look back at what we've gotten up to so far, look ahead at what's coming up, and announce a subscription sale.

We just passed our six-month anniversary, so it seems like a good time to check in and post a sale on subscriptions.

Save 92% on OMEGA 6 The Triangle Stars on Steam OMEGA 6 The Triangle Stars is an adventure game with 16-bit styling, based on the manga by former Nintendo art director, Takaya Imamura.

Another massively undersold oddball that's currently under $2 - Omega 6: The Triangle Stars

A SNES-style adventure by the original F-Zero and Star Fox artist, full of funny weird space-guys. Very retro walk-and-talk adventuring with rock-paper-scissors based RPG battling.

*92% off* for 15 hours.

Dr. Mario / Print ad / Nintendo / 1990

The History of Metroidvania: Decade One--1980-1990 hardcover book is $37.85 on Amazon (31% off) amzn.to/4taYPPx #ad

Zelda II - Town Theme Synthwave Cover - Ian Cowell
Out on the Town (Zelda II: The Adventure of Link)

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Mina the Hollower by Yacht Club Games
Idle animation (Nintendo Switch demo)

Mina The Hollower by Yacht Club Games
Gameplay 4 (Nintendo Switch demo)

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Mina The Hollower by Yacht Club Games
Gameplay 1 (Nintendo Switch demo)

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Mina The Hollower by Yacht Club Games
Title screen intro (Nintendo Switch demo)

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A timeline visually representing the advice from my post, emphasising how dramatically and reliably having more time, with a testable build, converts to your game being better and your studio being safer.

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice:

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I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

My hand holding a copy of “The Story of Final Fantasy VI.”

Ooh! Found a copy of the @retrogamermag.bsky.social “Story of Final Fantasy” special issue I contributed in the wild!

I wrote features covering FF 5, 6, 8, and 9.

Virtual Boy Works Hardcover Book – Limited Run Games After Nintendo achieved world-shaking success with its Game Boy handheld system, a next-generation follow-up seemed inevitable. Yet few could have predicted the form it would take—or how poorly it would fare with critics and consumers alike. That device, Virtual Boy, stands as a rare black mark on Nintendo’s long legacy of console hardware: An abject commercial failure, retired after only half a year of life.

If you've been meaning to pick up my Virtual Boy and/or Super NES books, NOW would be the time. They're down to a few dozen copies, and demand has slowed enough that we can't really justify a reprint. Snag one of the last few at a very tidy discount while you can: limitedrungames.com/collections/...

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Just woke up at 4:30am from a dream where I was attending some event an hour away, or maybe on the west coast, where Sean and Celia from YCG were presenting to a small group and I was listening to as much as I could. Instead of Mina, there were docs for a fort battle game like Rampart.

Four pages from The Legend of Zelda (Game & Watch) instruction manual.

Another Eden Begins releasing on Sept 17th (Switch 2/Switch/Steam) www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZC_...

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Wow, that's bad. Just watch the Roku live channel instead.
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Chrono Trigger (Live), by Video Game Orchestra from the album Live At Symphony Hall

Chrono Trigger (Live)
from Live At Symphony Hall by Video Game Orchestra
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Most people point that out but if you read a few pages further, it turns out the transformed mushroom people are actually the hidden power up blocks among the bricks or invisible blocks. (so you're not actually destroying mushroom people)

Yoshitaka Amano’s art for Final Fantasy VII

Yoshitaka Amano’s art for Final Fantasy VII

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom--Secrets of the Zonai hardcover book is up for preorder at B&N ($59.99 Standard/$119.99 Hero Edition - 472 pages) buff.ly/qMbj8i2 #ad

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Flipping through a few books right now. Really regretting missing PAX East. Really needed to be there for inspiration and get away from everything. Feeling lost, really wanted to go.

Welcome to NOWPLAYING – Video game music, curated daily The name is Pierre, I'm a French journalist with a strong interest in video games—especially video game music (VGM). Online, I go by Peterline6, and I've been tracking new VGM releases for a while now...

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I remember pics of this in Nintendo Power.

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