Don't Give Up Skeleton: A Dark Souls and Bloodborne Podcast

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Hello skeletons! This week on the podcast, we are joined by Judson Cowan, who you might know if you've been following Souls stuff for awhile. Besides making some great videogame soundtracks (like Rogue Legacy 2), he's also the creator of Laudate Solis, the most perfect map of Dark Souls 1 that has ever existed. Until his new one comes out, anyway. We talk about his history with the games, the magic of making maps, and more. Enjoy!

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Links:

• Judson Cowan (@Tettix) / Twitter
• Dark Souls - Laudate Solis - Fangamer
• Tettix – Tettix Games
• Judson Cowan on Twitter — I'd like to tell you about how I made an extremely detailed and map of Lordran (a second time) for @tuneandfair 's #abyssalarchive.

Welcome back, skeletons! This week we get to visit with our old friend Lokey, who has a whole book coming out about Dark Souls. A real book! That you can hold in your hands! See the links below if you want to check it out, and listen to the episode if you want to hear some of the ins and outs of the thought process behind it.

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Links:

• Introducing Abyssal Archive
• Lokey Lore – What You Didn't Know
• Lokey Dark Souls (@Lokey_DS) / Twitter

Welcome back, skellies! This week's guest is KarlGerm, a Souls fan and speedrunner, and more importantly, and all around good dude. Karl walks us through his experiences with the game, what led him to do challenge runs and eventually speed running, and at one point we go a lengthy tangent about Final Fantasy 8. Be sure to check out all of Karl's links below!

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Links:

• Karlgerm - Twitch
• Every F'n FF | Final Fantasy Podcast
• SpeedSouls

Heya Skeletons! It's been awhile, but I'm back with another episode of DGUS Remastered, the series where I catch up with old guests from the podcast, and see what they're up to. Today it's Zach, the writer behind Lordran & Beyond, back to talk about his experiences in the last four years, as well as his Kickstarter project for collecting all of his webcomics into a physical book. Check out the links below!

On a personal note, I just want to say that I hope all of you are doing ok in this whirlwind of a year. Stay safe, stay healthy, and stay skeletons.

Don't Give Up, Skeleton is on Patreon, which is a great way to support the show if you can. Donations go to keeping the podcast bills paid, as well as my ever growing collection of Souls games.

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Links:

• Lordran & Beyond 1st Edition Anthology by Zach Sharpe — Kickstarter — Nearly seven years ago, with aspirations of writing comics but no entry or foothold to establish myself, I launched Lordran & Beyond, the on-going Dark Souls web comic. For years on a monthly basis, I worked with various amazing artists to deliver chapters in a cumulative 25 different stories! Supporting us every step of the way have been the hundreds of amazing patrons on Patreon, and this partnership between creator, artist, and supporter resulted in over 300 comic pages of delicious, Soulsy material.
• Zach Sharpe (@cursedsirkai) / Twitter

Hello skellies! We're back with another DGUS Remastered episode, this time with my buddy Paolo. He was one of the most passionate Souls fans I interviewed, way back in 2016, and it was an absolute delight getting to catch up with him and talk about how the last four years have changed in terms of our appreciation for the games and the media around them. Enjoy!

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Hello skellies! I'm back again with another Remastered, this time my good friend Illusorywall. We catch up with what's been going in the four years since we last spoke on a podcast together, and have a great time doing so. Check out the links below for all of his extremely cool content.

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Links:

• illusorywall / bucky (@illusorywall) / Twitter
• Demon's Souls Dissected #1

Hey there! It's a surprise skeleton! Paddy DM'd me a few weeks ago and wanted to come back on the show and talk about his experience since we last recorded, almost FOUR YEARS ago. We chat about being a One Bro, what challenges we like and which we don't, and of course, Souls Souls Souls. Enjoy!

Don't Give Up, Skeleton is on Patreon, which is a great way to support the show if you can. Donations go to keeping the podcast bills paid, as well as my ever growing collection of Souls games.

You can also support the show by leaving an iTunes review, or by sharing the podcast with your friends.

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NEW EPISODE OUT OF NOWHERE!

My good friend Jason Killingsworth is Kickstarting a new edition of You Died, the book he and Keza MacDonald wrote about Dark Souls back in 2016. You Died is a celebration of Dark Souls, and contains stories, anecdotes, and lore about the game. It was an inspriation for this podcast, and I'm not just saying that because I'm in it, I promise! Jason brought his designer, Andrew Hind, to the podcast, and the three of us talk about the book, the game, and of course, the community. Enjoy!

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Links:

• Jason Killingsworth
• Tune & Fairweather: Quality Books
• Jason Killingsworth (@jkillingsw0rth) / Twitter
• Hongvanngh on Twitter: "#Sekiro Texture, this time is the cranky pikachu of Ashina. His amour pieces might requite a separate post tho. https://t.co/ueUIwFFZyj" / Twitter — The artist I mentioned that is doing deep dives into Sekiro textures.

Hello skellies! If you haven't been following me on Twitter or on the recently closed Patreon, I have some news. My original plan after putting DGUS on hiatus was to begin recording and releasing "remastered" episodes, in which I'd re-interview some of the original guests of the show and see how things have changed. I recorded one of these, which you are hopefully listening to right now, and since then have decided to shut down the Patreon. I don't have any direct plans to record more of these, but if I do they'll be publicly available on this feed.

All of that aside, the guest is my friend Sean, who releases content under the moniker The Lore Hunter. Sean is a lore junkie, as you might imagine, and in the three years since we recorded the first time his life has gone through many changes. He has more kids, he bought a house...the usual stuff. Also: his Souls content began to get way more popular than usual. Popularity is a good thing right? Not always. As Sean tells us in this episode, sometimes it can lead to all sorts of unusual places.

Enjoy the episode friends!

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