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

You can also support the show by leaving an iTunes review, or by sharing the podcast with your friends. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!

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! You can also support the show by leaving an iTunes review, or by sharing the podcast with your friends. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!Links:Judson Cowan (@Tettix) / TwitterDark Souls - Laudate Solis - FangamerTettix – Tettix GamesJudson 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. You can also support the show by leaving an iTunes review, or by sharing the podcast with your friends. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!Links:Introducing Abyssal ArchiveLokey Lore – What You Didn't KnowLokey 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! You can also support the show by leaving an iTunes review, or by sharing the podcast with your friends. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!Links:Karlgerm - TwitchEvery F'n FF | Final Fantasy PodcastSpeedSouls

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. You can also support the show by leaving an iTunes review, or by sharing the podcast with your friends. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!Links:Lordran & Beyond 1st Edition Anthology by Zach Sharpe — Kickstarter — Nearly seven y

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! You can support the show by leaving an iTunes review, or by sharing the podcast with your friends. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!

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. You can support the show by leaving an iTunes review, or by sharing the podcast with your friends. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!Links:illusorywall / bucky (@illusorywall) / TwitterDemon'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. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!

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! You can support the show by leaving an iTunes review, or by sharing the podcast with your friends. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!Links:Jason KillingsworthTune & Fairweather: Quality BooksJason Killingsworth (@jkillingsw0rth) / TwitterHongvanngh 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 epi

Hello skeletons! As you'll hear in this short episode, the podcast is going on hiatus! So no new episodes for quite some time (maybe forever, who knows). Thanks to all of you that listen week to week, and thanks to all the guests that have made this show great over the last three years. If you have any questions, feel free to hit me up on twitter. <3 You can still catch my voice over at [Monster of the Week](monsteroftheweek.cool), [Days of Future Cast](daysoffuturecast.com), or [Dead Blood Club](deadblood.club). 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. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!

Hello skeletons! This week's guest is Jay Gills, a game designer that works on World of Warfcraft and more importantly: a big Dark Souls fan. We spend a lot of time discussing the magic that is DS1, and then branch out to some of the other games. There is some discussion of Sekiro, including some late boss names, but there aren't any plot spoilers. Enjoy the episode everyone! 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. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!Links:Jay (@HamletEJ) | TwitterOld Game Plus (@ogpluscast) | Twitter

Hello everyone! This week's guest is Mark, a game reviewer, musician, dad, and all around video game guy. Mark and I sat down for a long chat about the entire series, including Sekiro! This will be on the few episodes with Sekiro chat, so stay tuned (and also watch out if you're spoiler-phobic). Enjoy, and be sure to check out Mark's link below to read some of his reviews. 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. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!Links:DarkStation

Hello skeletons! This week's guest is Alexander, a friend of mind from the Duckfeed Slack. We sit down and discuss his journey through the Souls series, going on some unique side paths like "what's the deal with parrying" and "how to be the only person in your town that knows what Demon's Souls is." It's a good one, so 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. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!Links:Alexander McConnell (@paxtenebrae) | TwitterRachel and Alex vs The Whoniverse

Hello skellies! This week's gues is Joel Corelitz, a video game composer and huge Souls fan. We sat down early on a Sunday morning to talk about his journey through these games, starting with a rough start and ending with, well, him appearing on this podcast because he's into the games that much! Be sure to stay after the credits for a song he wrote from the game Gorogoa (which is gorgeous and you should all play it immediately), and check out the links for more of his work. 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. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!Links:Joel Corelitz, composerJoel Corelitz (@joelcorelitz) | Twitter

Hello folks! This week's guest is Chris J. He's a long time Souls fan that never got too deep into the series until he started up Dark Souls 2 in an interesting way. We talk about his love for that game, playing online, and of course, Bloodborne. 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. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!Links:Richard Pillbeam's thread on Brotherhood of the WolfChris Jenkins (@Clawglip) | Twitter

This week's guest is Chris, a Dark Souls Dad and lover of all things Souls. We chat about all the various games, we solve the question of whether or not video games are art, and rave about how much fun it is to play Souls with other people. It's a good one, folks, so 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. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!

Today is a very special episode! For a long time now, the idea of doing a "Dark Souls Widows" podcast, where I would interview the partners of Souls addicts who aren't as much into the games to get their perspective on the series. This is almost that, but instead of me interviewing a guest, I asked my wife to host the show and interview a special guest: Laura Stardust! That's right, we got the star of Paddy Does a OneBro to come onto the show and talk about her view of the series. 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. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!Links:Twin Humanities - YouTubePaddy, TEA BASTARD (@PaddyStardust) | Twitter

Hello skellies! This week's guest is Tyler, who has had an interesting journey through the Souls games. He started out pretty young, chooses to not to use any sort of online/internet help, and made a very interesting decision during the Bloodborne DLC that had some life changing consequences. 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. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!

Hello skeletons! This week's guest is Roxie, a friend of mine and huge Souls fan. We talk about her inital falling out the games, but then falling back in love with them once she embraced the community. Also: lots of co-op and Dark Souls 2 love in this episode. 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. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!Links:Roxie *intensifies* (@MyPetRoxie) | Twitter