Hey Dungeoneers, Shattered v4.0.0 has been released!

v4.0.0 is arguably Shattered's biggest update yet! There's a massive new quest, a bunch of new in-game art, 6 new enchantments, and plenty smaller changes and adjustments.

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Hey Dungeoneers, after far too long of a wait, v4.0.0 is finally ready for beta!

This update ended up ballooning in size from just adding a new quest, I'd say it's arguably Shattered's biggest update yet at this point! There's a massive new quest, a bunch of new in-game art, 6 new enchantments, and plenty smaller changes and adjustments.

In this blog post I'm going to quickly show off some of the now-finished new quest. Don't expect all the details though, I wouldn't want to spoil everything!

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Hey folks, the beta for v4.0 is almost ready!

I've been making a few final tweaks and squashing a few bugs, and the biggest thing I've got left to do now is write the blog post.

I expect that I'll be able to release the beta sometime on either the 14th or the 15th, just barely making the 'first half of august' ETA I set previously.

In the meantime, here's one final teaser. If you're able to get to the end of the vault, expect an assortment of upgraded loot! You can only take one thing back though, choose wisely!

Hey folks, as of today Shattered Pixel Dungeon is 12 years old!

I don't have anything special prepped for today, I'm still working away at v4.0. Refinement is coming along well though and it's looking very likely that it'll be ready for beta before August 15th!

Here's one more upcoming vault treasure room in the meantime. This one has some pretty rapid fire traps, so there's no avoiding them. You'll need some sort of help to get past them unscathed.

Hey Dungeoneers, time for a little update!

Just about 2 months ago I gave an ETA that v4.0 would be ready for beta in July, hopefully earlier in the month. We're now reaching the end of July, so how's that looking?

v4.0 is extremely close to being beta-ready, but to ensure that it's not rushed (and also for the sake of my stress levels) I'm going to be moving that beta ETA back a little bit to the first half of August.

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Hey Dungeoneers,

Progress continues on v4.0's new vault quest! I'm unfortunately probably going to miss my July ETA for a beta, but it's getting very close!

I've been working on final design and implementation for the final boss, so that's what's getting teased this week! The Greater Elemental is unstable can swap between forms, each one has it's own weaknesses and attacks. Here's probably the simplest attack, a wave of fire with a convenient gap (visuals are a WIP):

Hey Dungeoneers,

I'm hopefully going to have more vault quest stuff to show off next weekend, but for now here's a quality of life change that folks have been asking for for a while. Instead of immediately fading, danger indicators will now persist until the thing they are warning you about actually happens! This persists over save/load as well!

To be honestly I'm sort of iffy on the game's red danger indicators in general, which is why I took so long to make this tweak. They were a sort of phoned-in addition I made while busy with all of the enemy/boss changes in v0.8. They feel very visually noisy and 'videogamey' and I'd like to look into replacing them with more purposeful visuals for each hazard/attack at some point. However, there's no doubt that they're an important part of gameplay clarity for now, and having them persist is important for players who want to take their time or who just happened to be distracted for a moment.

Work continues on the upcoming vault quest. It's almost content-complete, though after that there'll still be some polishing that needs doing before it can go to beta.

As I briefly mentioned in the last blog post, there's going to be a new use for dwarf tokens in the vault, and it has something to do with this room and mirror. You lose all of your items when entering the vault, so wouldn't it be nice if there was some way for the heroes to regain their signature items in the vault and access most of their abilities again...

(Note that these visuals are a WIP)

Hey Dungeoneers,

With a bunch of spritework improvements starting in v4.0.0, I decided to spend a little time looking at historical stuff in the changes scene this week. Currently if a visual asset is updated in the main game it's updated in the changes scene too. It doesn't really feel right for something like a v0.1.0 change to use item sprites from v4.0 though, so I've decided to change that!

I've now converted the changes screen to use its own dedicated icons file, so that icons can be accurate to when a particular update was released. I've even decided to add the original release notes for Pixel Dungeon for good measure, going all the way back to v0.1 in December 2012! This ended up being a lot of work, the changes scene currently has almost 275 unique icons!

Here's how that looks on the oldest set of changes from 0.2 and prior. Current on left and new on right:

Hey folks!

I'm still working away at v4.0, and don't have a whole lot of new things to show off just yet after the recent blog post, but here's one new room from a bit ago that I never showed off publicly.

This is another lower tier treasure room that just requires a bit of timing to overcome. The sentry scans in a consistent pattern, but you'll need to make use of that pillar and good timing to avoid getting caught in a scan on the way to the treasure.

Hey folks!

Sorry for the extended wait, I'm back with some news on v4.0 and a new ETA! Unfortunately v4.0 is still a little ways out, it's ended up as a much bigger update than expected! Currently I estimate that v4.0 will ready for beta sometime in July, hopefully earlier in the month.

In this blog post I'm going to share a quick update on the vault quest, then go over some very exciting things also coming in v4.0.

(Please keep in mind that while I always try to keep to the ETAs I provide, they are just estimates. If you don't hear from me by the ETA, it means I'm still busy with the update!)

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Hey Dungeoneers,

Expect a more full blog post later this coming week. That post which will go over all of what's coming in v4.0 and provide a new ETA.

In the meantime though, here's another new larger room coming in the vault quest! The hallway room features a long stretch with an enemy making rounds back and forth. The included tunnels tuck you away just far enough to avoid detection while they pass.