Reddit reviews Dark Souls: Design Works
We found 14 Reddit comments about Dark Souls: Design Works. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
Reddit reviews Dark Souls: Design WorksWe found 14 Reddit comments about Dark Souls: Design Works. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
>Help a girl out, trying to get laid for father's day
Uhhhhhhhh.......
>and my husband loves Dark Souls
Oh, whew.
Perhaps one of the Design Works books? I don't own one myself, but I've heard/read very good things about them. There's one for each of the Dark Souls games.
As far as I can tell, the art is from the Dark Souls: Design Works book, illustrated by Udon and published by From Entertainment.
http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Souls-Design-From-Software/dp/1926778898/
Here's a link to the Amazon page if you want to pre-order it :)
http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Souls-Design-From-Software/dp/1926778898/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1370329576&sr=8-2&keywords=dark+souls+design+works
Those are really cool. Hadn't heard of any of them, but looked them up. From left to right it looks like they're:
Unfortunately I can't tell what this artwork is from and there's no title to look up for it. Maybe OP can chime in with the title of that one?Edit: Took me a bit to recognize it but it's Bioshock Infinite. So I bet the the hardcover of this book has the colored sleeve with the embossed version we see in the pic on the book cover itself: The Art of Bioshock Infinite
/r/TheMakingOfGames specializes in behind the scenes features for games, and often lists books like these. There's an alphabetical listing of all submissions that you can press CTRL-F on and search for your favorite game.
Dark Souls: Design Works is an art book about From Software's action RPG that also features interviews with the developers. The interviews can be read online, which is convenient since the book is out of print.
Super Mario Bros 3 - A Japanese children's book on how video games are made, with a focus on this 1988 Famicom/NES classic and including many pictures of old development hardware and Nintendo employees (includes original Japanese scans and English translations).
Street Fighter 2 - Polygon article giving an oral history from some of the original Capcom developers.
Crash Bandicoot - Making of article written by Andy Gavin, founder and former lead programmer of Naughty Dog.
Warcraft: Orcs and Humans - Stories about the development of the first Warcraft RTS game by Patrick Wyatt, former lead programmer at Blizzard.
StarCraft - Various making of articles by Patrick Wyatt.
GoldenEye 007 - Four members of the development team recount the making of.
BioShock Infinite - Wired magazine article published in 2012 about Irrational Games' ambition, a description of their offices and Ken Levine's demanding nature as the director of the project.
BioShock Infinite - Polygon article on the final years of Irrational Games, according to those who were there.
Defense Grid 2 - Polygon multiple-part article series on developer Hidden Path's journey to making the game and insight into the business deals that happen during a game's development.
Gamasutra Dirty Coding Tips article about nine real-world examples of dirty programming hacks and shortcuts to fix baffling bugs.
Gamasutra Dirty Coding Tips article #2 with nine more real-world examples of dirty programming hacks and shortcuts to fix baffling bugs.
The Art of Atari: From Pixels to Paintbrush - This book hasn't been released yet, but I'm keeping an eye on it. It's about the evocative box covers of Atari games.
38 Studios - Article and ex-employee post on the demise of this Rhode Island-based studio started by former baseball player Curt Schilling and that was developing an MMO codenamed Project Copernicus inspired by Curt's love of EverQuest.
Atari [NSFW] - Playboy article titled "Sex, Drugs, & Video Games: The Rise and Fall of Atari" profiling Atari founder Nolan Bushnell and written by author David Kushner, who wrote Masters of Doom.
A couple behind the scenes ebooks by Geoff Keighley (HL2 and MGS2 are free, the rest cost a few dollars):
Here's the link. I don't know how much of the original is going to make it into the English version. Hopefully it includes translated interviews.
Seems to be available on Amazon.ca and Canadian distributors.
Although not Dark Souls 2 specific, a true Dark Souls fan would love to get the Design Works book: http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Souls-M-Kirie-Hayashi/dp/1926778898/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1407172279&sr=8-1&keywords=dark+souls+design+works
You can actually buy it separate.
http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Souls-M-Kirie-Hayashi/dp/1926778898
http://www.ebay.com/itm/DARK-SOULS-DESIGN-WORKS-Art-Book-Japan-Anime-Illustrations-/261374277019
nice collection! I've been hunting the demon's souls and dark souls collector editions for a bit now without much luck. Anyway demon's souls and dark souls are my favorite also. Have you pre-ordered the limited edition dark souls art book yet? http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Souls-Design-Works-Software/dp/1926778898/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1375359522&sr=1-1&keywords=dark+souls+art+book
well what i really want would be these joycons for my nintendo switch since my other ones broke and i have had to keep the poor thing in docked mode permanently :(
xD those are expensive though so i will be more realistic, i would really like this design works book for my favourite video game dark souls, i love game design and interviews and have always wanted to own this
If you have a lot a lot of money, figure out a way to import the trilogy edition of the Dark Souls remaster from Japan. I think it may only be for PS4 but it comes with all the games and a lot of great goodies. Otherwise if money is tighter there are some amazing Art Books (design works) you can buy online. Dark Souls 1 to 3 (3 comes out in August) with some absolutely stunning artwork from the game.
Some other neat ideas if he does not already have them would be the Dark Souls 2 & 3 Collectors Edition. Now these do break the bank at around $200-300 a piece (I think you can buy both for $400 USD combined) but the statues they come with are absolutely beautiful.
And here it is on Amazong.co.uk for UK and Ireland.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Souls-Design-From-Software/dp/1926778898/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1370376008&sr=8-2&keywords=dark+souls+design+works
I think they're publishing the book here in the US starting sometime this year. I'll see if I can dig up the amazon link.
Fake edit: Yerp: http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Souls-Design-Works-Software/dp/1926778898/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1371445625&sr=1-1&keywords=dark+souls