I want enemy designs in ShatteredPD's upcoming quest to be based in the existing dungeon regions, which gives me a chance to bring back and old enemy that was removed just about 6 years ago, the inexplicably bearded dwarven skeleton!
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Happy Birthday, Rat King!
Update:
Shattered Pixel Dungeon April Fools joke item.
I see what you did there @shatteredpixel.com
Here's a room for ShatteredPD's upcoming quest that I didn't share in the recent blog. The waves of lasers can be dodged with good movement, but a harder variant of the room could turn the beam speed up and require a consumable to get past.
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Hey Rat Punchers!
I've just released one tiny final patch for Shattered Pixel Dungeon v3.3, mainly just a little internal cleanup and fixes for a couple minor bugs. I'll hopefully be starting up on sharing more incremental updates about the next major update here soon!
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Hey folks!
I've been busy with expanding the tester area for Shattered Pixel Dungeon's new quest in patches to v3.3. In this blog post I'm going over all of the things I've added, and how I think they're going to fit together into a new quest!
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Hey folks, I'm just now releasing Shattered Pixel Dungeon v3.3.6!
There are now a variety of implemented hazards in the new quest tester area, although they aren't currently harmful and I still need to work on more rooms types for them to appear in.
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I've just patched Shattered Pixel Dungeon to v3.3.5!
In addition to some smaller misc. changes, some enemies have been added to the tester area for the upcoming quest! They mainly exist to test out new enemy AI logic that's meant to better facilitate stealth gameplay.
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The upcoming quest in Shattered Pixel Dungeon involves a more stealth than normal, and so enemy AI needs some tweaks to accommodate that. 'Investigating' is a new AI state that gives you just a little more time to duck away behind a corner or door.
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An image showcasing the current WIP level generation for the tester area for the new quest. Rooms are arranged in a grid pattern.
Hey folks, I've just released Shattered Pixel Dungeon v3.3.4! It's another small patch as I continue to make incremental improvements to the tester area for the new quest, plus fix a few bugs and make a few small other changes.
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Check if you've accidentally enabled the swarm intelligence challenge, which might explain why enemies are attacking so frequently. Otherwise there is no difference between any of the heroes when it comes to enemy behaviour, enemy generation, or item generation.
The problem with something like this is it would change the genre of the game. Benefits that persist between runs would push Shattered more toward being a rogue'lite', not a traditional rogue'like'. Your first run have as much potential as your 100th is part of the point.
By 'adding items' I mean adding more variety of items, but I wouldn't necessarily increase the number you'd find in a particular run. For example, if I added a new wand, you would see other wands slightly less often.
✨Shattered Pixel Dungeon in 2026✨
Hey Rat Punchers, Happy New Year! This post starts with a year in review, and then lists the major changes and additions that I have planned for Shattered Pixel Dungeon in 2026 and beyond!
Read the full blog post here:
shatteredpixel.com/blog/shatter...
Happy New Year Everyone, Shattered Pixel Dungeon has been patched to v3.3.2!
I've made some progress over the holidays on the new quest tester area. It's now entirely generated by the game's levelgen system, whereas the previous iteration was mostly hardcoded.
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Please give me a little benefit of the doubt here. I do not intend for the eventual complete quest area to play like a regular dungeon floor. There will be some newer enemy behaviors that make avoiding confrontation a lot more realistic.
Congrats, and thank so much for playing!
Hey Dungeoneers, Shattered Pixel Dungeon has been patched to v3.3.1!
Nothing really exciting to note with this patch, it's just some bugfixes to various reports I've received since v3.3.0 launched about a week ago.
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Hey Dungeoneers, Shattered Pixel Dungeon v3.3.0 has been released! v3.3 includes a tester area for the upcoming overhaul to the city quest, new items, and a bunch of smaller tweaks and improvements.
shatteredpixel.com/blog/shatter...
It can actually! Though it costs quite a lot of charges...
Shattered Pixel Dungeon v3.3 is in beta right now, and it includes the game's first new artifact in a very long time! The Skeleton Key can be used to open almost any lock, lock doors that weren't previously locked, and create temporary magical walls!
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Hey Dungeoneers, it’s been a couple of months since the last patch for v3.2, so it’s time to an update!
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Shattered Pixel Dungeon v3.3 is very close to beta, but for now here's a new trinket! The cracked spyglass adds more items to a level, but they're pretty hard to see! There are at least 2 items in each scene in the GIF below, can you spot them all?
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An image showing the new badge earnable for winning a randomized run. With the title: "Randomized Victory!" and the text: "Obtain the Amulet of Yendor with a randomized hero, talent upgrades, subclass, and armor ability."
It's been a common request, so starting in Shattered Pixel Dungeon v3.3 you'll have an option to pick a randomized hero, challenges (you choose how many), talents, subclass, and armor ability! There's even a new badge for winning a purely random run!
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In Shattered Pixel Dungeon v3.3 the Ambitious Imp will spawn in his own dedicated room with a large pit leading to a dwarven vault. The vault is magically sealed, but that won't completely stop you from being able to teleport in...
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Sorry for being so quiet over the last month!
The new quest is sadly still a little ways off, but Shattered v3.3 should be ready in a couple of weeks with a 'tester area' for the new quest, plus some smaller additions and fixes. Expect more posts about it in the coming weeks!
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Thanks! I can't take full credit though, a lot of the initial UI design was done by Watabou on the original Pixel Dungeon about 12 years ago!
That's a wrap on the 10th Roguelike Celebration! Thanks for spreading the word and joining us! There's still time to check out our reprinting of ALL the roguelike celebration shirts, and to browse the Steam sale!
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The 10th Roguelike Celebration is now LIVE! Pick up a ticket, pay what you can, and join us for a full weekend of amazing talks! We have a whole online chat space that's bustling and full of secrets, we have breakout rooms to chat with speakers, please come say hi!
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ADVENTURERS!
Roguelike Celebration 2025 is this coming weekend, and our Steam sale is live:
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We also have a beautiful new shirt design from @shing.bsky.social and previous years are available as well:
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So exciting! 🤩
