{"id":9238,"date":"2018-04-25T16:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/9238\/"},"modified":"2018-04-25T16:00:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T16:00:11","slug":"the-world-design-of-dark-souls-boss-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/9238\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Design of Dark Souls | Boss Keys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QhWdBhc3Wjc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe world of Dark Souls is a sprawling, branching, interconnected maze-like masterpiece. In this special, mid-season, spin-off episode of Boss Keys, I break down the world of Lordran and discuss the advantages and challenges of making non-linear worlds.<\/p>\n<p>Support Game Maker&#8217;s Toolkit on Patreon &#8211; https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/GameMakersToolkit<\/p>\n<p>Have Mark talk at your studio, university, or event &#8211; https:\/\/gamemakerstoolkit.tumblr.com<\/p>\n<p>Sources<\/p>\n<p>Dark Souls Design Works Translation | Giant Bomb<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.giantbomb.com\/profile\/7force\/blog\/dark-souls-design-works-translation-creating-the-w\/97235\/<\/p>\n<p>Dark Souls Map Viewer | Kayinworks<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/kayin.moe\/?p=2218<\/p>\n<p>Games shown in this episode (in order of appearance)<\/p>\n<p>Dark Souls (From Software, 2011)<br \/>\nMetroid Prime 2: Echoes (Retro Studios, 2004)<br \/>\nThe Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Nintendo, 2011)<br \/>\nThe Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo, 2017)<br \/>\nThe Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Nintendo, 1991)<br \/>\nMetroid (Nintendo, 1986)<br \/>\nThe Legend of Zelda (Nintendo, 1986)<br \/>\nResident Evil (Capcom, 2002)<br \/>\nDark Souls III (From Software, 2016)<br \/>\nHorizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games, 2017)<br \/>\nHollow Knight (Team Cherry, 2017)<br \/>\nUncharted: The Lost Legacy (Naughty Dog, 2017)<br \/>\nDark Souls II (From Software, 2014)<br \/>\nBloodborne (From Software, 2015)<br \/>\nSekiro: Shadows Die Twice (FromSoftware, 2019)<\/p>\n<p>Music used in this episode<\/p>\n<p>Firelink Shrine (Dark Souls)<br \/>\nWhat True Self &#8211; Feels Bogus, Let\u2019s Watch Jason X (Chris Zabriskie)<br \/>\nOut of the Skies, Under the Earth (Chris Zabriskie)<br \/>\nIs That You or Are You You (Chris Zabriskie)<br \/>\nWhat True Self &#8211; Feels Bogus, Let\u2019s Watch Jason X (Chris Zabriskie)<br \/>\nIs That You or Are You You (Chris Zabriskie)<br \/>\nI Don\u2019t See the Branches, I See the Leaves (Chris Zabriskie)<br \/>\nWhat True Self &#8211; Feels Bogus, Let\u2019s Watch Jason X (Chris Zabriskie)<br \/>\nSouls of Fire (Dark Souls)<\/p>\n<p>Chris Zabriskie on Band Camp &#8211; https:\/\/chriszabriskie.bandcamp.com<\/p>\n<p>Contribute translated subtitles &#8211; https:\/\/amara.org\/v\/C3BEe\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world of Dark Souls is a sprawling, branching, interconnected maze-like masterpiece. In this special, mid-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[212,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-9238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rpg","8":"tag-dark-souls","9":"tag-rpg"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238","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=9238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}