Shattered Pixel Dungeon is an open-source traditional roguelike dungeon crawler
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#2Highly recommended. It's a fork of the original Pixel Dungeon, and quite a bit more fun than the original.
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#3I'm not really sure what this is doing on Hacker News, but the game (Shattered Pixel Dungeon) is fun.
One of the nicest features is that whenever you observe an effect that unambiguously tells you what a potion/scroll does - such as throwing a potion - that type of object is automatically identified for you. In more "traditional" hack games you'd have to write notes yourself even though obviously a thrown potion exploding into fire means it's a potion of liquid fire, right?
Shattered Pixel is a good way to kill some time on public transit or similar.
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#4I was aware of Pixel dungeon but didn't realize it was available on PC, Mac, and iOS.
Particularly impressed that it builds for iOS when written in Java - turns out the game is built on libgdx which builds for all these platforms.
Also, it's fun if you like roguelikes.
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#5This is cool, I love a good roguelike especially on my phone for flights and other time sinks.
I am curious though, why is the iOS version €4.99 but the Android version is free ? I've seen this a lot actually and have always wondered, I figured it might just be Apple's annual developer license fee but not sure.
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#6Excellent game, I lost an embarrassing amount of time last year getting all of the badges.
The mobile versions are great because they’re ad-free, and work without internet access when on airplanes. And since it’s turn-based, it’s very interruption-friendly. The Reddit community is also a lot of fun: equal mix of strategy and memes.
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#7I love roguelike games (still miss you 100 Rogues), and I played Shattered Pixel Dungeon 77 times before finally winning with a Rogue class. Once I'd done that, I never had the urge to play it again.
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#8I'm not really sure what this is doing on Hacker News, but the game (Shattered Pixel Dungeon) is fun. One of the nicest features is that whenever you observe an effect that unambiguously tells you what a potion/scroll does - such as throwing a potion - that type of object is automatically identified for you. In more "traditional" hack games you'd have to write notes yourself even though obviously a thrown potion expl…
Nethack identifies objects once you've observed their effect as well
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#9Well, there goes the rest of the week. I don't install games on my phone, but I always give SPD a pass because open source. The first time I installed it, I almost lost an internship because I was too focused on the game. The most recent time I installed it, my wife thought I was cheating on her because I was acting so shady and obsessive about my phone. Don't say I didn't warn y'all.
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#10I'm not really sure what this is doing on Hacker News, but the game (Shattered Pixel Dungeon) is fun. One of the nicest features is that whenever you observe an effect that unambiguously tells you what a potion/scroll does - such as throwing a potion - that type of object is automatically identified for you. In more "traditional" hack games you'd have to write notes yourself even though obviously a thrown potion expl…
> I'm not really sure what this is doing on Hacker News
Incredibly fun game, open source, and in a genre that likely fits well into many HN users' interests. I rediscovered it recently and remembered it was open source, so why not submit it?