{"id":200467,"date":"2019-10-02T14:15:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T14:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/200467\/"},"modified":"2019-10-02T14:15:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T14:15:05","slug":"the-secret-reward-systems-of-dark-souls-ii-design-dive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/200467\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Reward Systems of Dark Souls II | Design Dive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4ke8D_FgAj0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nSupport AI and Games and help the show grow by joining my Patreon:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ai_and_games<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>In this tenth episode of Design Dive, I return to the world of Dark Souls and discuss how Scholar of the First Sin revamps the implicit reward framework of the original game in weird and interesting ways.<\/p>\n<p>Music in this episode is from the Dark Souls II Soundtrack by Yuka Kitamura and Motoi Sakuraba, listed in order of appearance.<br \/>\n&#8211; Departure<br \/>\n&#8211; Fire Keepers<br \/>\n&#8211; The Last Giant<br \/>\n&#8211; Majula<br \/>\n&#8211; Ancient Dragon<br \/>\n&#8211; Royal Rat Authority<br \/>\n&#8211; Longing<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>AI and Games is a YouTube series on research and applications of Artificial Intelligence in video games.  It&#8217;s supported through and wouldn&#8217;t be possible without the wonderful people who support it on Patreon, plus YouTube members and Paypal donations.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ai_and_games<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCov_51F0betb6hJ6Gumxg3Q\/join<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.paypal.me\/AIandGames<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Get yourself an AI and Games t-shirt over on Teespring!<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/aiandgames <\/p>\n<p>You can follow AI and Games (and me) on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AIandGames<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-timeline\" data-width=\"770\" data-height=\"1000\" data-dnt=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AIandGames?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tweets by AIandGames<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.instagram.com\/aiandgames\/<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-timeline\" data-width=\"770\" data-height=\"1000\" data-dnt=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GET_TUDA_CHOPPA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tweets by GET_TUDA_CHOPPA<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>#DarkSouls #ScholarOfTheFirstSin #DarkSouls2<br \/>\n#DarkSouls #ScholarOfTheFirstSin #GameDesign<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Support AI and Games and help the show grow by joining my Patreon: http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ai_and_games &#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":200468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[123351,123356,123357,212,2518,7188,14314,41043,1382,60268,54417,123353,123352,123355,2024,123354,15,9857,123358,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-200467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rpg","8":"tag-ai-and-games","9":"tag-ai-and-games-dark-souls","10":"tag-ai-and-games-dark-souls-2","11":"tag-dark-souls","12":"tag-dark-souls-video-game","13":"tag-dark-souls-2","14":"tag-dark-souls-2-lore","15":"tag-dark-souls-2-scholar-of-the-first-sin","16":"tag-dark-souls-ii","17":"tag-dark-souls-ii-scholar-of-the-first-sin","18":"tag-dark-souls-video-essay","19":"tag-design-dive","20":"tag-game-design-essay","21":"tag-game-feedback","22":"tag-lets-play","23":"tag-reward","24":"tag-rpg","25":"tag-scholar-of-the-first-sin","26":"tag-video-game-essays-youtube","27":"tag-video-games"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}