Today, while poking around GitHub looking for new “targets”, I came across an open source project for a rogue-like role-playing game called Shattered Pixel Dungeon.

Game introduction: A RougeLike RPG game, pixel style, diversity for the characteristics of the game each adventure is unique, each opening has a new fun. The game has four playable characters, randomly generated levels and enemies, and over 150 items to collect and use for Chinese, apple and Android phones. The game is simple to play, but it is not easy to beat the game.

Hey, that looks good. As a fan of RPG games, I immediately went to play them.

This is so much fun! There’s no one left. He’s the only one today.

Project address: github.com/00-Evan/sha…

Get started

The game was only 8MB and I installed it very quickly and made a demo video. Click on the watch

Download the android and PC packages at the end of this article

Conscience is the game

The game screen is dark wind, enter the game to choose the role first, there are warriors, wizards, shooters, thieves, but at the beginning can only choose soldiers.

Because the first time to play, I wandered a few steps to get some of the props do not understand, play 2 minutes I died 😂.

I played a few more, and although I died 5 times in 10 minutes, I experienced the game’s classes, talents, equipment, potions, identification, potions, food and other systems, as well as some mechanisms and missions. It’s hard to get started, but that’s what makes RougeLike games fun.

All in all, the playability is very high, but I am too fast to hang food, many did not experience.

Broken Version pixel Dungeon features:

  • High replay: Randomly generated floors, enemies, and items. Each game will have a new experience!
  • 4 hero classes: warrior, mage, Rogue, hunter. Each hero has a unique gameplay.
  • 8 specialities: Heroes who succeed in the battle can refine their skills and become more powerful.
  • 5 unique dungeon areas: each area has unique enemies, traps, and missions.
  • More than 150 items: including various powerful staffs, rings, weapons and armor.
  • Over 50 enemies, 30 traps, and 5 level leaders will test your skills.
  • Unique artifact: its power grows with use.
  • Constant updates: New content is coming every other month or so.

Then I went to Google Play and looked at people’s reviews, and 80,000 people gave them nearly perfect ratings, with a total score of 4.7.

Most players get low scores because the game is too hard, but RougeLike RPGS are just too hard to get started. I remember playing the tower and getting stuck on the first floor for a long time. It took me several times to get over it.

Broken Pixel Dungeon is a fun, 100% free game with no ads or in-app purchases. After seven years of development with donations, the game is now available on the App Store at v1.0.0.

Because my phone is android, so let a friend in the App Store search, but the domestic App Store did not find 😢

In addition to being a fun game, it’s also been an open source project for seven years.

Born in open Source community

Shattered pixel- Dungeon is a Java open source project born out of the GitHub community, based on pixel Dungeon, another project that has been discontinued.

Originally the authors just wanted to fix a BUG in Pixel Dungeon, but after seven years of development and iteration (5000 submissions) it has become a very different project from Pixel Dungeon.

The author is not a programmer himself, but his passion for game development led him to this open source project. The open source approach also makes shattered- Pixel-Dungeon alive, and the power of open source is making it better and better. Multilingual translation, for example, is through community contributions.

Involved in translation: www.transifex.com/shattered-p…

The last

So much for today’s recommended “broken version of pixel Dungeon”, and finally, I hope its open source story can give you some inspiration.

Don’t always ask yourself what will happen. Maybe it’s not technology that’s holding you back from participating in open source. Or that sentence: “Interest is the best teacher!”

Here’s how to share GitHub’s fun, entry-level open source projects to help you find the fun of open source.

The game download links: pan.baidu.com/s/1edPJ0p1a… Password: fkb9

Friendship tip: download to be careful! Please arrange your time wisely!

Don’t ask me why I said that, because my squat legs are numb!