6 or so years ago I wondered why they were so much Pixel Dungeon versions on the Play Store.
Now I know why ! The game was Open Source !
Shattered Pixel Dungeon is an open-source traditional roguelike dungeon crawler
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#42This 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.
Yep that's exactly the reason, plus not wanting to compete with Pixel Dungeon. The developer talked about it when first announcing it was coming to iOS
> Shattered Pixel Dungeon will cost $5 US when it fully releases on the App Store. I’m charging because of a mix of Apple’s higher platform fees, not wanting to undercut Pixel Dungeon, and because Shattered is releasing in a much more finished state.
https://shatteredpixel.com/blog/shattered-pixel-dungeon-is-c...
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#43Check out YAPD (Yet Another Pixel Dungeon) if you're on Android for a nice variant of the original. I found I like the mods in YAPD better.
I (perhaps mistakenly?) started with YAPD but then got my friend hooked and he went for SPD. I love how active the SPD dev is, but the mechanics are juuust a tad too different for me to want to learn them all. Both are great games though!
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#44Any reason this is not provided for download through F-Droid. I trust apps on F-Droid more than Google Play and helps with installing in degoogled phones.
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#45So I used to play Pixel Dungeon and then saw a bunch of clones that looked like it. Is Shattered Pixel Dungeon the original project or a clone of a closed source game? Or completely unrelated?
I've played a fair number of PD spin-offs / remixes and Shattered stands out as the best. It get regular updates that sometimes add or substantially change large chunks of the game.
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#46It has been neat watching this game change over the years. Every year or so, enough new updates have been had that it feels like a new "season"; similar to online games. It keeps getting better.
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#47DO 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.
Glad to know I'm not the only one.
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#48You gotta check out Yet Another Pixel Dungeon too! I like it very much. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.considered...
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#49Any reason this is not provided for download through F-Droid. I trust apps on F-Droid more than Google Play and helps with installing in degoogled phones.
There's a thread on GitHub where the dev explains why: https://github.com/00-Evan/shattered-pixel-dungeon/issues/13...
Downloading the APK direct from GitHub is the official way to get it without the Play Store. App updates take a bit more work, but you can set up notifications through GitHub to be notified for new releases.
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#50DO 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.
Thank you for the warning.
I am going to download it. But I'm not going to touch it until I'm on vacation next month. :) I've got a lot of work between now and then.