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

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Post by sspiff »

suprjami wrote: post #75
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.

Make sure you don't install Caves then, it's even better. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=thirty.six.dev...

Contains ads, hard pass.

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Post by awelxtr »

bilekas wrote: post #5

This 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.

I guess it is the same reason Anki isn't free either on iOS: you must pay Apple's dev account whether you make a profit or not

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Post by flexagoon »

IgorPartola wrote: post #18

So 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?

The original Pixel Dungeon was closed source IIRC, but then the developer stopped working on it and released the source code. Now there are many forks/mods of PD, all with different features (the Pixel Dungeon wiki has a great list). Shattered PD is the most popular and polished one, it adds a ton of stuff and is very actively developed.

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Post by nurettin »

This is the only game I ever donated to. I open it up almost every time I recompile and run. My previous build was an experimental corrupt mage with corpse dust. I wanted to see if I can balance charges and corrupting an army of wraiths that spawn all the time because of the corpse dust. Current build is a plain old assassin with +10 assassin's blade and anti-magic armor. Trying out the badder bosses challenge this time.

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Post by lambdanil »

For those who enjoy SPD I recommend checking out some other popular roguelikes, many of them are also open source.

Some of my personal recommendations would be brogue (probably the most beginner friendly), DCSS (friendly, tons of content), ADoM and Cataclysm DDA (a sandbox survival roguelike, quite a unique mix)

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Post by chongli »

notorandit wrote: post #85

You die a little bit too often when compared with old school rogue, nethack and moria. But it is very nice.

You don’t have to die often. Winning streaks of 20+ (with 6 challenges active) are completely doable. This guy RunningFromCake [1] has some nice tutorials on how to get better at the game. He also has videos showing his winning streaks and how he accomplishes them.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@runningfromcake

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