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Shattered Pixel Dungeon is an open-source traditional roguelike dungeon crawler

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Re: Shattered Pixel Dungeon is an open-source traditional roguelike dungeon crawler

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Post by aireo »

klik99 wrote: post #17
Borealid wrote: post #3

I'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 saw this post and immediately thought “there’s probably a lot of potential trad roguelike fans on hacker news”, for one thing it’s probably the genre with highest percentage of fans are devs or have dabbled into game dev. SPD is a good gateway to brogue, DCSS, cogmind, qud, etc

I’ve already mentioned Cogmind, but Brogue is a beautiful game with tight gameplay. Another great recommendation.

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Post by rjmill »

Quiark wrote: post #15
rjmill wrote: post #9

Well, 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.

If you only play open source mobile games and are afraid of wasting your time, make sure you avoid the factory tower defense game Mindustry which presents itself at https://mindustrygame.github.io/

Oh no, it's on f-droid, my hands are tied! I'll have to ahem contribute my free time to this important open source library.

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Post by desiarnezjr »

DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS.

I downloaded (not Shattered) Pixel Dungeon and then Shattered, and nearly a decade later I'm still playing. In fact it's 70% of my non-work computing time.

Not only that Shattered's dev updates often with sometimes great changes.

You've been warned.

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Post by boothby »

Townley wrote: post #6

Excellent 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.

All of them? I gave up on that goal partway through the pandemic; I spent about a year's worth of occasional games without seeing Tengu and eventually accepted that I wasn't interested enough to get that 6-challenge badge.

Strategy on Reddit, you say? Perhaps that could help. But, perhaps it's better if I don't spelunk that particular rabbithole.

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Post by Graziano_M »

desiarnezjr wrote: post #33

DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS. I downloaded (not Shattered) Pixel Dungeon and then Shattered, and nearly a decade later I'm still playing. In fact it's 70% of my non-work computing time. Not only that Shattered's dev updates often with sometimes great changes. You've been warned.

I've never seen a game, or software for that matter, with a better version history screen.

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Post by Graziano_M »

notamy wrote: post #36
Graziano_M wrote: post #34

This game is so good. It's probably the thing I miss most from having an Android phone.

It is available on iOS!

It wasn't at the time, and I didn't need to know that! I have it on PC but luckily that's easier to avoid.

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Post by epiccoleman »

Quiark wrote: post #15
rjmill wrote: post #9

Well, 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.

If you only play open source mobile games and are afraid of wasting your time, make sure you avoid the factory tower defense game Mindustry which presents itself at https://mindustrygame.github.io/

Honestly though, Mindustry is so much better with keyboard/mouse controls. It's a shockingly good mobile factory/automation type game, but I'd just rather play it on PC. (Or Mac, which runs it fine)

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Post by zem »

this is far and away the best roguelike i've played on mobile. indeed, it's pretty much the only roguelike i've ever seen that has a decent mobile user experience. you can tell that the dev team has put a tremendous amount of work into making it look and feel good.
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