Author: From Software
Publisher: Udon Entertainment
ISBN: 9781926778891
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Showcasing the grim and chilling artwork behind the fan-favorite Dark Souls game in a gorgeous hardcover collection, Dark Souls: Design Works features key visuals, concept art, character & monster designs, rough sketches, and an exclusive interview with the game's creators.
Author: Keza MacDonald
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781916279902
Category : Dark souls (Video game)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Damien Mecheri
Publisher: Third Editions
ISBN: 2377840000
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 283
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Story of a saga video games... If the Dark Souls series managed to seduce players and journalists, it was mainly by word of mouth. It was such a great success that Dark Souls 2 was named “Game of the Year” 2014 by the vast majority of gaming magazines and websites. To date, this saga is one of the most important in the gaming industry. The odd thing is that these games are well known for their difficulty and their cryptic universe. This publication narrates the epic success story, but also describes its gameplay mechanics and its specific lore across more than 300 pages. Characters, plots and the scenario of the three Souls (Demon's Souls, Dark Souls and Dark Souls II) are deciphered by Damien Mecheri and Sylvain Romieu, who spent a long year studying these dense and enigmatic games down to the smallest detail. The serie Dark Souls and her spiritual father Demon's Souls will not have secrets for you anymore! EXTRACT "In May 2014, Hidetaka Miyazaki succeeded Naotoshi Zin as president of FromSoftware, after the studio was purchased by Kadokawa Shoten. This was a highly significant promotion for the person who had led the company’s most successful project, Dark Souls. And yet, he did not lose from view what had attracted him to the field: an insatiable creative drive. In spite of his new status within the studio, one of the conditions he requested and was granted was to remain creative director of his new project: Bloodborne. This allowed him to successfully design this spiritual successor to the first Souls game, while also assuming his new responsibilities. Given his drive to work and create, it is not surprising how quickly Miyazaki moved up through the ranks." ABOUT THE AUTHORS Passionate about films and video games, Damien Mecheri joined the writers team of Gameplay RPG in 2004, writing several articles for the second special edition on the Final Fantasy saga. He continued his work with the team in another publication called Background, before continuing the online adventure in 2008 with the site Gameweb.fr. Since 2011, he has come aboard Third Éditions with Mehdi El Kanafi and Nicolas Courcier, the publisher’s two founders. Damien is also the author of the book Video Game Music: a History of Gaming Music. For Third Éditions, he is actively working on the “Level Up” and “Année jeu vidéo” collections. He has also written or co-written several works from the same publisher: The Legend of Final Fantasy X, Welcome to Silent Hill: a journey into Hell, The Works of Fumito Ueda: a Different Perspective on Video Games and, of course, the first volume of Dark Souls: Beyond the Grave. Curious by nature, a dreamer against the grain and a chronic ranter, Sylvain Romieu is also a passionate traveler of the real and the unreal, the world and the virtual universes, always in search of enriching discoveries and varied cultures. A developer by trade, he took up his modest pen several years ago to study the characteristics and richness of the marvelously creative world of video games. He writes for a French video game site called Chroniques-Ludiques, particularly on the topic of RPGs, his preferred genre.
Author: George Mann
Publisher: Titan Comics
ISBN: 1787737799
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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In the Age of Fire, only one thing is certain: darkness is coming. From hallowed and silver knights, to lone adventures in unnatural lands, the fight against the rising swathes of undead is unending and their battles are epic. Featuring stories by some of the comic industry’s finest writers and artists, this collection is the perfect jumping-on point for those new to the iconic series, and essential reading for veterans of Namco-Bandai’s genre-defining videogame franchise. Collects Dark Souls: The Breath of Andolus, Dark Souls: Winter’s Spite, Dark Souls: Legends of the Flame, and Dark Souls: Age of Fire. “Jaw droppingly gorgeous from start to finish.” – We The Nerdy
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Category : Computer fantasy games
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Various
Publisher: Udon Entertainment
ISBN: 9781772940640
Category : Computer adventure games
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Collects the gritty and hair-raising artwork behind Dark Souls III, featuring armor and weapon designs, character concepts, enemies, bosses, environments, DLC artwork, and more!
Author: William Playfair
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Ryan O'Sullivan
Publisher: Titan Comics
ISBN: 1785868446
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Return to the very beginnings of the Dark Souls story with a dramatic retelling of the Legends of Gwyn – Lord of Cinder and Knight Artorias. Tying directly into the very first Dark Souls videogame and featuring all the main characters!
Author: Aditya Deshbandhu
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040044352
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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The 21st Century in 100 Games is an interactive public history of the contemporary world. It creates a ludological retelling of the 21st century through 100 games that were announced, launched, and played from the turn of the century. The book analyzes them and then uses the games as a means of entry to examine both key events in the 21st century and the evolution of the gaming industry. Adopting a tri-pronged perspective — the reviewer, the academic, and an industry observer — it studies games as ludo-narratological artefacts and resituates games in a societal context by examining how they affect and are engaged with by players, reviewers, the gaming community, and the larger gaming industry. This book will be a must read for readers interested in video games, new media, digital culture (s), culture studies, and history.
Author: Ludovic Castro
Publisher: Third Editions
ISBN: 2377842909
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 355
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Discover an analytic work of Sekiro, a game that spectacularly marked the 2010s. Few video game series can boast having marked the 2010s as much as Souls. FromSoftware mainly owes this amazing and unexpected success to the talents of the now-famous Hidetaka Miyazaki, whose radical vision of video games was quick to charm and win around players. In May 2014, the director was promoted to president of FromSoftware. He could have continued to create Souls forevermore, but instead chose to develop new franchises. The first true representative of this new era was Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, a game with unprecedented richness and flawless thematic consistency. This book will discuss the work’s development process, an analysis of the storyline and characters, the soundtrack, themes, and its historical, cultural and artistic influences. It will also present an analysis of the problem with Sekiro’s difficulty—which saw a lot of ink spilled at its release—and take a look at the evolution of Miyazaki’s games. This book will provide you with an analysis of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice : it will discuss the game creation process, as well as the themes, the storyline, the characters, the soundtrack and its diferent influences. The book will also present an analysis of the problem with the game's difficulty and the evolution of Miyazaki's games. ABOUT THE AUTHOR It is by exploring the world of Super Metroid at the age of seven that Ludovic Castro finds himself for the first time captivated by a world of video games. A big fan of Japanese RPGs, he later became passionate about the background stories about his favorite games in Gameplay RPG magazine. Now a doctor of theoretical chemistry, he sometimes manages to find enough free time to write about his favorite series, Megami Tensei.
