Dark Souls PVPlayTool
Dark Souls is an action RPG made by From Software.
A streamer made a very basic tool for a “Rags to Riches” approach in PVP. I took this mode and enhanced it with his permission into a C# project.
Premise
The original version of “Rags to Riches”, now no longer available.
Rags to Riches in a custom Game Mode tool created by Youtuber and Streamer DreadedCone. It was made for the original Dark Souls game to add an extra layer of depth to PVP, where the player would earn items as they won competitive PVP battles. Meanwhile losses would result in a penalty.
The downside of the original app was that it would not account for your build. So I adjusted this system in order to allow any Dark Souls build to work with this system. In essence, this means that the app will not give rewards you cannot use. For example, it will not give you spells if you don’t have the Faith or Intelligence requirement to cast it.
The PVPlaytool is an app I created for PC that can be opened next to Dark Souls to simulate Rags to Riches.
I adjusted the design where items of different rarities can be customized, since the entire project is open source. I also added more penalties to the system for a loss, but also made it so wins would not have a rare chance to offer a penalty on top of the rewards.
The idea is to expand the project to also account for Dark Souls II and Dark Souls III.
The PVPlayTool
The Rags to Riches app, having given 4 rewards to the player.
C# Programming
C# is excellent for creating simple apps like this.
The entire project is written in C#, using a split between View and Model to link the visual aspects with the code behind.
The entire thing is open source, allowing anyone to modify it or adjust the code as they see fit.
Overall this was a fun project to get back into C# and refresh my courses from college by creating something extra for one of my favorite games.
You can find the project and source code on Github.
