Oh, I have. Just the way that one went was so bizarre. The comment is meant more as humor.
Wand of fire works well.
Mixing potions of Paralysis and Toxic holds and poisons them.
A stone of Aggression to make them attack each other.
It's tough when they don't come to the door.
Huntress made it on the first run. I really like the new Upgrade system.
One creepy thing... killed a Monk rushing at me just as he was passing a chest. His remains ended up inside. So wrong. I had to open that chest once I found the key. You don't want to know how bad it smelled inside.
Gladiator ascended. No obvious bugs. I like the remade menu. Balance is decent.
I just had to test the newest SPD 2.5.0b3 on the oldest Android device I have, and I am proud to say that it works great!
My old Zeki nearly went into the trash this month as nearly all support for 4x has ceased. Then I discovered XPlayer, a 3rd party app designed to run MKV movies in h265 format. Along with WiFi FTP I am able to stream quality movies on this old tablet.
Better still, I can now play one of the best roguelikes ever on it! Thank you 00-Evan for not writing off older hardware.
There is a rather interesting effort to create a multiplayer 3D version of Pixel Dungeon that reminds me of a mix between Shattered and Gauntlet. It isn't ready just yet and because it will be on Steam it is guarenteed to be massively bloated, so hopefully it will get ported to Android.
It does count toward the final score, as does searching all of level 5 even if you beat Goo and find the Rat King. If you don't search the entire level you lose points.
Yes. I came very close to starving many times. Keeps you moving. I found a lot of Maps and turned them into clairvoyance stones. That helped cover a lot of ground without backtracking and searching. That was a big game changer this time. I also used an upgrade to make stones of enchantment an got a Blazing bow. A mimic dropped a Ring of Might +3. Another drop had a warhammer +1 very early on. A Ring of Haste helped conserve food and move along faster. I got the Rose too, on level 22, so that was useless. One should be able to eat the rose. I found 3 healing wells. I usually don't find more than one or two in a game. I tend to get the mind vision ones a lot more. Not sure if that is by design or get random.
Classic. I haven't seen that one in ages.
After 4 days on one of my best runs ever, I came so close to a perfect score on a 9 Challenge. Almost want to cry 😢
Because throughout the game the only other rings I obtained were a Ring of Wealth and a cursed Ring of Might. I used the Ring of Wealth for a while but decided a few extra points of damage were preferred in the lower levels. I did get a ton of wands though... just what every Fighter wants.
Although I prefer to use the Huntress, for my first run through the new v2.4.1 I took the Fighter/Gladiator the entire way in a single run.
Remix, Remixed Dungeon, Remixed Pixel Dungeon, and Re-Remixed Pixel Dungeon are all mods of Pixel Dungeon ML. NYRDS various remixes of PD, even though based on PD (not on Shattered PD), is one of the most popular mods worldwide with a very large following in Russia. So, to answer your question, yes, a great many people play the mod.
Huntress, 3 challenge, Wand of Regrowth +9.
Scrolls of Recharging.
I have not only grown the elusive Golden Lotus in a garden, I managed to grow 4 at once!
Died fighting Yog with harder boses and not destroying spawners, but good run with Flaming Bow, Gauntlet of Fire, and Brimstone Armour.
Sometimes the ledge with a chest is just out of view and you won't see it until you get closer.
Other times, it is just an empty room waiting for you to rush in and fall to your death.
It will cost you to find out.
A potion of levetation, a torch to see further, etc.
FYI
The scroll wiped out all 58.
Left me stunned for a while.
https://github.com/sethoscope/clover-pixel-dungeon/releases/
New: custom app icon, plus matching colors in title screen and credits.
This release contains upstream Shattered PD v2.3.0, plus this fork's additions:
a wand of anti-magic, which temporarily suppresses a target's magical abilities; a flying carpet artifact; a Forgetful challenge, which makes identification of potions and scrolls temporary; a rare Four-Leaf Clover plant, which gives loot-related luck when trampled; and cosmetic changes related to the title.
This topic has been covered before on the old Reddit site and is indeed due to API changes. Nothing wrong with the game at all and it works fine on Android 13. Just Google screwing with people. Much like Micro$oft forcing people to stop using DOS.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelDungeon/comments/15owmbi/vanilla_pd_taken_off_the_ios_app_store/
Thanks to this wonderful thing called a search engine it doesn't take much effort to find the original PD homepage from where the game can be downloaded for free.
https://watabou.itch.io/pixel-dungeon
https://github.com/watabou/pixel-dungeon/releases
https://apkcombo.com/pixel-dungeon/com.watabou.pixeldungeon/
Dragon magazine reported on several occassions wherein the two met and banged heads. Although fans rarely saw them argue, it happened.
Dragon articles -
For example, he says:
I found the "Ring Trilogy" . . . well, tedious. The action dragged, and it smacked of an allegory of the struggle of the little common working folk of England against the threat of Hitler's Nazi evil. At the risk of incurring the wrath of the Professor's dedicated readers, I must say that I was so bored with his tomes that I took nearly three weeks to finish them.
And then later on:
Gandalf is quite ineffectual, plying a sword at times and casting spells which are quite low-powered (in terms of the D&D game). Obviously, neither he nor his magic had any influence on the games. The wicked Sauron is poorly developed, virtually depersonalized, and at the end blows away in a cloud of evil smoke . . . poof! Nothing usable there.
In addition, several civil action suits were filed between the two, the most notable when Tolkein sued TSR over copyright infringement.
"During the first few years after the introduction of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) in 1973, Gary Gygax, who had the strongest impact on the fantasy elements of the game, denied any direct influences from fantasy author J.R.R. Tolkien. Many players recognized immediately that numerous D&D character and creature names came directly from the books. But it took until 1977 for intellectual property lawyers from a firm which had licensed the rights to Tolkien’s work to send a cease-and-desist order, at which point TSR Inc. (then known as Tactical Studies Rules) Gygax’s publishing house, famously changed the names of characters with ties to those works. Thus, in basic D&D “hobbit” became “halfling,” and “ent” became “treant.”"
Beyond the press, media, and courts, we, the members of Evermoore Knight's (a group of people who gamed and playtested with Gygax), and I, who did work for TSR, Paladium, G.U.R.P.S. and other gaming systems, knew at a personal level the arguements that took place. Although to the fans the two systems, LotR and D&D, bare a strong resemblance, what inspired them and the creator's behind them were polar opposites.
(Of course, all that paled in comparison to how much Gygax's wife would come to want him dead, his lifes work destroyed, and D&D burried forever. She nearly succeeded too, creating Wizard's of the Coast and turning D&D and many other board games into indiscernible D20 garbage, wherein if not for a title one can't tell the difference from D&D, Shadowrun, etc. But that is a whole other matter and unrelated to Pixel Dungeon.)
A brief evolution of Rogue. Thousands of sites exist on the topic, so I won't go into a lot of repeat here, but I thought you might enjoy a quick gaming history lesson.
Tolkein (Lord of the Rings and many other books), inspired the game Moria. Zeb, Cook, and Gygax, creators of Dungeons & Dragons, inspired the game Rogue. Tolkein, from Europe, and Gygax (mainly credited for D&D), from America, detested one another.
Shattered Pixel Dungeon is based upon Pixel Dungeon. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shatteredpixel.shatteredpixeldungeon
Pixel Dungeon is based upon BRogue.
https://pixel-dungeon.en.uptodown.com/android
BRogue is based on Angband. https://github.com/bilgincoskun/brogue-android-port/releases/
Angband is based on Moria and Larn and Nethack. Moria is Tolkein's world, Nethack is D&D'ish, and Larn took a whole different theme. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.rephial.xyangband
This version includes several Roguelikes in one, including Sil-Q, the Android port of Moria.
The Android port of Larn (dLarn) is available at - https://download.appsonwindows.com/b/dLarn_free-v3.3-appsonwindows.com.apk?a=azJIZDl2QyttREIxend4L0tyblQwdz09&b=ZmlJL1paUmowSkdDY25XVy9SbGRlTDdreDhhWFc5WWk5NWJORXNrSWN5L1hOamFkWUZsZ21UVVVhSDlwWWtPa2hiT0VIZmQrQ2drTHZoSXJlZ3p4cjNnVlhvWDFSNnNocU1qM0xwcEVKcFk9&c=VkZzUkZ5QjlwQmxrOFJmSWNqR1EvZ3A5MDlSN3I3ZHk4WDFTZ1ZEVnFmQT0&d=4bf63e00
Moria is based on Rogue. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.rufe.moria
"Roguelike Classic" is the only APK I know to include direct ports of Moria, Larn, and Rogue to Android. Sadly, it uses .SO libraries that are no longer supported since Android 11. Mines of Moria does not hold very true to the original Dungeons of Moria. uMoria is not available for Android. Finally, I found Sil. This is an Android port of Moria that holds very true to Tolkein's work, but it is for x86 hardware only. Fortunately, Sil was redone as Sil-Q (silk), and is included in the above Angband apk.
The original UNIX version of Rogue (1978-1980) will not run on modern devices, and the only 2 known Android ports of the 1984-1985 DOS version stopped working at Android 11. The DOS version can be run in an emulator such as MagicDOSBox on Android. The versions up to 1984 were primarily text based, or, if one had a computer powerful enough they could select an ANSI or ASCII sudo graphics mode. It can also be played online. One must register an account before playing. https://rlgallery.org:8080/
A modern Android port can be found in Dungeon Crawl. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.crawlmb&hl=en
In 2015, one of the largest roundups of Roguelikes took place and more than 700 versions were archived. https://archive.org/details/RoguelikeMegaCollection2015
The anual 7 Day Roguelike Challenge adds about 10 new games each year.
About the same time, Pixel Dungeon was bursting onto the scene for Android and not even mentioned in that archive at the time.
A decade later, and there is now well over 300 version's of Pixel Dungeon! That makes for over a thousand roguelikes.
Dial-up Multi User Dungeon's (MUD's), network roguelikes such as Diablo, and MMORPG's such as World of Warcraft are also evolution's of the original Rogue.
*Edit
Although Nethack wasn't a part of PD, it has been a major influence on all Roguelikes. As I mentioned it, I am posting the Android version.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tbd.NetHack
I was asked, why keep a spear the entire game?
This was an odd run for me. The first weapon I received was a great axe. It is too large to be a value. I had almost no armor the entire game, until the imp. I obtained the ring of tenacity and the vampiric spear early on. Typically , I take my first upgrade scroll and turn it into enchantment stones and apply the stones to my bow. Throughout the game I mainly rely upon my bow as my primary weapon and don't give much concern to a melee weapon. I later picked up the ring of furor. I augmented my bow for greater damage at the cost of speed. Using the ring I was able to offset and even greatly improve upon my attack speed. It is very rare that I get the chalice artifact. After looking over my inventory early on and realizing I was going to be challenged for armor and weapons, I noticed that between the 2 rings and the vampiric spear and the chalice of blood, by applying my upgrade scrolls I could achieve almost immortality. The rings prevented me from dying easily, which allowed me to fill the chalice and the chalice regenerated my health and if I should take enough damage, by using my other ring in combination with the spear, I could stab at my enemy's nearly 6 times as often as they could attack me and gain health back from them.
So, yes, I kept the spear.