{"id":727180,"date":"2023-10-07T20:59:51","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T20:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/727180\/"},"modified":"2023-10-07T20:59:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T20:59:51","slug":"dark-souls-dissected-17-prototype-maps-early-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/727180\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Souls Dissected #17 &#8211; Prototype Maps &#038; Early Designs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Dark Souls Dissected #17 - Prototype Maps &amp; Early Designs\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JSUwLZlX55g\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nFor today&#8217;s episode of Dark Souls Dissected we&#8217;re taking a close look at the prototype \/ test maps to see how the game&#8217;s design evolved from an earlier stage of development. Dead ends are brought into context as cut paths, and we see some insight into how FromSoftware thought about putting the world together.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/illusorywall<\/p>\n<p>0:00 Introduction<br \/>\n0:43 Proto Blighttown<br \/>\n8:16 Quelaag&#8217;s Domain &#038; The Demon Ruins<br \/>\n18:06 Old Londo Ruins<br \/>\n33:56 Firelink Shrine &#038; Loose Ends<br \/>\n37:45 Closing Words<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to KingBore and Samuel Diamond for the usual troubleshooting, you can find their videos here:<\/p>\n<p>Lost Izalith Swamp &#8211; DS1 Cut Content:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lost Izalith Swamp - DS1 Cut Content\" width=\"770\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/opRvPILuBkg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Secrets of the Sunlight Altar &#8211; Dark Souls:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Secrets of the Sunlight Altar - Dark Souls\" width=\"770\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FlSu_WlJ96g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For today&#8217;s episode of Dark Souls Dissected we&#8217;re taking a close look at the prototype \/ test maps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":727181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[47476,212,8704,7200,7209,4775,15,9370,234078],"class_list":{"0":"post-727180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rpg","8":"tag-cut-content","9":"tag-dark-souls","10":"tag-demons-souls","11":"tag-elden-ring","12":"tag-from-software","13":"tag-fromsoftware","14":"tag-rpg","15":"tag-soulslike","16":"tag-unused-content"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727180","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=727180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}