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How To Design A Dungeon In Darksiders II

We could all name a few of our favorite dungeons from gaming history, but what was that secret ingredient that made them so memorable? On our recent visit to Vigil Games, we sat down with producer Ryan Stefanelli to discuss the team's approach to creating dungeons in Darksiders II. From sketching a rough concept to play-testing the puzzles, watch the video to see how a dungeon is built from the ground up.

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  • Personally darksiders art is amazing and also very under rated as a game. I hope darksiders 2 gets better recognition than the first instalent.
  • Cool. I hope this one is more well received than than was the first game. onezeroONE is right the first game was underrated.

  • While I'm not at all interested in buying the game, seeing the creative process is always interesting.
  • 1st game was epic. and am very interested in the next installment :) also digging the new cover story hubs they doing on the site

  • it deffinatly sounded like he called it darksh*ters 1 at 1:01
  • ok, they need to stop with all this Darksider stuff. It's still a year away and they're going to wear out the game before we get to play it. I was a fan of the game when the first trailer for part one came out. Unlike a certain website that didnt give it a high review but now has different article about the sequel everyday...just saying.
  • Darksiders had a cool level design im interested in how there next installment will be like

  • To me i think Darksiders2 isn't going to be good.

  • I'm liking what I've seen so far of the game. I never played the first one, but seeing the design process and the effort of the creative minds and developers... I sort of get the need to play their game.

    I just hope it's a very good game :)
  • Seems like a pretty industrial process, but with creativity left intact.  Hopefully that results in a nice, fun, and long game.

  • :)
  • That looked so cool! The tools look really great, so hopefully that means they can put their creative skills to the highest level and really give us a fantastic game.

  • the first one was awesome, i was no good to anyone till i beat it, i can't wait for this one.

  • I'm intrigued to see what they're going to do with the dungeons since they seemed to have streamlined the process of building them.

  • Gawd I cannot wait to play this game

  • Love it game development fantastic

  • Another great video from Ben Hanson. Ryan gave some nice insight into the creative process of this game and how much the devs really care about it. I can't wait til I can finally get my hands on it.

  • Great video guys. All this inside & behind the scenes stuff is very interesting & really quite awesome.

    I can't wait to play this.

  • According to my account Im not old enough to view? Update what? Crap!

  • Never played the first.  Looking forward to the second.

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