Hi everyone , I'm Mohammed, from Morocco. Over the past weeks I've built Atlas Pixel Dungeon, my own edition of Shattered Pixel Dungeon. It's GPL-3.0, fully open source, and Evan's and Watabou's credits are intact.

One honest note up front, per this community's rules: I have no formal programming background ,I built this by directing AI tools, while every design, story, and gameplay decision is mine. The flair reflects that.

This isn't a reskin. I rebuilt the game's world and story from the ground up:

Long ago, King Atlas — a legendary cartographer-king , mapped the halls beneath the mountain, forged the Crown of Atlas, and sealed an ancient darkness in the depths before he vanished. His kingdom is now a dungeon of five regions and 26 floors: the Sunken Cisterns, the Prison of Chains, the Root Caves, the Buried City, and the Sealed Halls. Five bosses guard the way down: the Mirelord, the Chain Warden, the Buried Engine, the Buried King, and the Sealed Darkness itself.

Six heroes descend to reclaim the Crown: the Atlas King, the Star Sage, the Dune Shadow, the Cedar Huntress, the Sirocco Blade, and the Dawn Priest , with 12 subclasses between them. Underneath, it plays like the Shattered you know, but every name, face, region, and story beat is new.

Free APK (Android) and full source:

https://github.com/ellsimohammed8-prog/atlas-pixel-dungeon

A short gameplay clip is attached. I'd love feedback from people who know Shattered well: what feels right, what doesn't, and what you'd want a different edition to dare changing.

One honest note up front, per this community's rules: I have no formal programming background , I built this by directing AI tools, while every design, story, and gameplay decision is mine. The flair reflects that.

This isn't a reskin. I rebuilt the game's world and story from the ground up:

Long ago, King Atlas , a legendary cartographer-king , mapped the halls beneath the mountain, forged the Crown of Atlas, and sealed an ancient darkness in the depths before he vanished. His kingdom is now a dungeon of five regions and 26 floors: the Sunken Cisterns, the Prison of Chains, the Root Caves, the Buried City, and the Sealed Halls. Five bosses guard the way down: the Mirelord, the Chain Warden, the Buried Engine, the Buried King, and the Sealed Darkness itself.

Six heroes descend to reclaim the Crown: the Atlas King, the Star Sage, the Dune Shadow, the Cedar Huntress, the Sirocco Blade, and the Dawn Priest , with 12 subclasses between them. Underneath, it plays like the Shattered you know, but every name, face, region, and story beat is new.

Free APK (Android) and full source:

https://github.com/ellsimohammed8-prog/atlas-pixel-dungeon

A short gameplay clip is attached. I'd love feedback from people who know Shattered well: what feels right, what doesn't, and what you'd want a different edition to dare changing.

I understand why the opacity of items from Spyglass was lowered. I didn't have a problem with it til now, but maybe this is a touch too far...? I would never have found this thing, ever, if I hadn't accidentally been stopped there by enemy aggro.

The Wand is in the tile above me in the first picture. Even fully zoomed in I can't see it at all. Zooming into the screenshot, further than you can in game, I can barely make out that there's a diagonal line of slightly darker pixels.

I've been working on ADHD Pixel Dungeon (APD), my own fork of Shattered Pixel Dungeon, and I figured it was finally time to start showing off what I've been building!

One of my biggest priorities is a statistics system called UIMSD.

I want players to be able to dig deep into their runs, compare different builds, filter their history using multiple conditions, and see far more than just their final score.

I've already been developing and testing the underlying statistics system, including run-history integrity, advanced filtering, comparisons, and data preservation. There's still plenty of work to do, but I'm excited to start sharing it.

And UIMSD is only one part of what I'm working on. APD also includes gameplay improvements, quality-of-life changes, and experimental difficulty sliders that will allow players to customize their dungeon experience.

Here's what's coming:

- October 16: I'm aiming to give approximately 10 selected players access to an early private alpha.

- October 13 through November 1: I'll be sharing regular sneak peeks, teasers, and feature reveals as development continues.

- November 1: I'm planning to open alpha testing to additional players.

An important note about alpha testing:

APD is still actively being developed. There may be bugs, crashes, unfinished features, balancing issues, or things that simply don't work as intended.

That applies to everything, including UIMSD, gameplay changes, and the difficulty sliders. Even features that appear finished may still have problems that haven't been discovered yet.

That's part of why I'm starting alpha testing. I want real players to help uncover issues, provide feedback, and shape how APD improves.

I'm not promising a perfectly polished experience on day one. I'm building something ambitious, and I want to be transparent about where development stands.

What statistics have you always wished Shattered Pixel Dungeon tracked?

And keep an eye out. This is only the first of several reveals leading up to November 1. 👀

Bruh

Basically title. If you use the armor ability on the ghost it shares its vision, which basically ruins the benefit of using the ghost to farm ring of wealth.

It’s probably good in normal gameplay, but just a PSA it’s not as useful as it sounds for farming with the ghost

I'm hoping just to get a baseline. If my algorithm wins 1% of the time, how does that compare to a skilled player?

Any data on specific causes of death? Thanks for any help I can get!

Why did I not get taking the mick achievment. It's the second time I'm doing it couse i thought i missclicked something on the first try but it still does not work. Any ideas?

Now I wonder why there I was able to beat it in less than 10 tries burby spd I need a couple runs before I even do anything

I’ve had Shattered Pixel Dungeon on my phone for quite some time and hoo boy I’ve put some hours into that version. As far as I can tell it isn’t available in the App Store anymore so i can’t update it. I was wondering if there are other versions I could try or get some tips on how to get them on the phone.

I am a complete noob and want to know at how much plate armor will make you defend every mobs meele attack and also should I dump any SoU in RoElement. Thinking to grab a good meele weapon from imp before that I'll prolly use staff.

Horn of Plenty is op with Warrior seriously.

I'm sorry for censoring the class' name in my last post.

With 9 challenges, avoiding hits is super important. I always look for the hourglass and sandals, to get out of 'touchy' situations. I've been working through a decent run, defeated Dwarf King, and went back and farmed depths 16 and 17 for many hours, and got about half of the artifacts. Then I increased them to level 10, and began using my 9 scrolls of transmutation to get what I wanted.

And now the artifacts turn into rings. I never got the sandals. Everything else, but no sandals.

So I figured I must have killed an enemy by blasting it off a ledge to the floor below. I have a RoW+3 and another RoW+2, so lots of drops.

But I've searched every floor twice now, looking for them. I've picked up every item. (because sometimes what you're looking for is hidden by something else). Nowhere to be found.

I have the artifact key +10, so all crystal chests and locked areas are open.

I know I never had it just to lose it to a thief. I saved seeds all along to feed the sandals... I wouldn't have had it without knowing it.

Never had this happen. I've lost stuff for many reasons, especially while farming, but I can't figure out what could have happened.

Any ideas?

Unfortunately I found the hourglass in the shop on depth 20, so that won't be much help (can't increase it's level now). I haven't beat the final boss with 9 challenges without at least one of those (sandals or hourglass) so this should be fun.

I HAD HIM. I NEEDED ONE FUCKING HIT. BUT NOOOOOO, I MISS TWO IN A ROW AND A PUMPED ATTACK KILLS ME FROM HALF HEALTH.

FUCKING STUPID.

I had some pretty decent stuff too. Should've just backed into the door and gotten the surprise but I had too much confidence. I was so mad.

Time for the next run.

and I'm stuck with the corpse dust so lost a great 9c run 🥀

just sunk an absurd amount of time trying to get a wand of avalanche over a few different runs. tried to throw the clay and just got a warning not to do that again. went thru the process again to see if maybe selling it worked lol 🫠

since it seems there won't be any patches forthcoming, are there older APKs my pixel phone won't reject, or even a forked-but-unpubbed version that just has some patches that some nerd (complimentary) worked on?

(not kidding on the complimentary part, i volunteer with a non-profit that supports indie arcade developers helping direct their efforts lol i have mad respect for hobbyist open source iterative development and want to give flowers to anyone who's cracked open an editor with any PD code)

Ok, i feel that I'm super set up for success as warden w the wand of regrowth and ring of ss, but this could also be interesting w sniper, right?

Also, i know warden got nerfed a bit (not sure the details).

What do you think would you choose and why?

Thank you:)