Design Room
We do oral histories and other behind-the-scenes coverage of the game industry.
- Created by Matt Leone
- Located in United States
- October 2025
- Free + Paid tiers
Recent posts
August 26, 2026
I n 2004, following LucasArts' cancellation of Sam & Max: Freelance Police , members of its development team formed Telltale Games to make episodic narrative games. I worked there from 2006 to 2009, doing public relations and marketing. Telltale later became known for choice-driven games like The…
July 21, 2026
I n 1978, Nolan Bushnell, co-founder of Atari, asked the author and pinball journalist Roger Sharpe, "When are you going to write a book about video games?" Sharpe replied, "When you guys have enough of a history." In the history of pinball, Sharpe figures frequently and in episodes of high drama.…
July 21, 2026
T he Addams Family pinball machine, based on the 1991 Barry Sonnenfeld movie, was the bestselling pinball game of the '90s . You can, and should, attribute this to the design of Pat Lawlor and Larry DeMar, who balanced accessible, multilayered gameplay with ridiculous novelty: What other game had a…
