Hi Boby. I am still stuck on a phone for internet and very limited in what I can do. As you know, I put together the annual PD archive report. Fandom, Reddit, Dominowood, Zay, your own work, and even Lemmy, should all have their information available in a single archive. Dumping and storing all that information isn't difficult, but creating a user interactive WIKI/BLOG/etc would be very time consuming. If it would help, I can donate the individual HTML reports on the 500+ PD's that I compile into the PDF.
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Ratmorgrafying an Evil Eye while it is hovering over a pit is funny.
Using an Elastic Weapon to knock an enemy into a flaming trap is a blast.
Throwing potions of paralytic gas and poison behind the King makes for shooting fish in a barrel, and when all his minions are summoned, toss the King a stone of aggression.
You can use a variety of tools to check for the apk's signature and hash before installing.
Apktool is a jar file for cross platform use.
ApkMirror does just that, they downloaded from Playstore and mirror apps.
Others, such as F-Droid, will only share apps with open source code that they can examine and compile.
As to what's safe or not is a frustrating question as it has no appropriate answer. It's like asking, how safe is Russian Roulette? You have a 5 in 6 chance you will win. Is it safe? Air-bags in cars break the neck 60% of the times they deploy. Are they safe? Does having a gun make you safe? Some of the worst malware ever invented is released by Playstore. Have all the locks and all the security ever truly made anything safe? You want safe, unplug and find a deep hole to live in, and hope it is safe enough not to cave in.
Safety is an illusion.
There are various places one can go to get older versions of SPD.
Search engines are amazing tools to find things on the internet.
One example might be https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/shattered-pixel/shattered-pixel-dungeon/shattered-pixel-dungeon-2-5-2-release/
As to running multiple versions of SPD on the same device, you will need to change the PackageName of one (I suggest the older version). APKtool can be used (as can many other tools).
Change com.shatteredpixel.shatteredpixeldungeon to com.shatteredpixel.shatteredpixeldungeon.old
Save it. Install it. You can now run this older modded version and the latest version together.
I've been watching for days now for the release :-) Looks great so far and works well from the executable launcher or JAR file, under Win11. Great job!
I compiled it and played just enough to get the idea and ensure the code worked. I found it was easier to click on a spot rather than move to it. If you have ever played Hyperrogue or similar hex based games, the movement is the same and just takes time to get accustomed to it. I'm not sure what can be done about the map issues to "smooth" out the edges as it were. I think the mod would have to be built from the ground up to accomplish that, or, an additional sweep would need to be done to mask it. Again, I'm not the DEV of this mod, I merely found it and thought it worth mentioning.
The DEV includes his contacts on his Git site.
Dmitry Tyurnikov is a Russian programmer who enjoys modding games. He tends toward changing game physics using many of the mathmatics in Hyperrogue.
He has created a SPD v3.0.2 mod that uses hexagonal tiles. Although not a new concept (D&D maps used hex grids), so far as I know this is the first implimentation of hex grid physics in a PD mod.
His mod does not show up on Reddit, whose members were very anti hexagonal when proposed by others in years past.
Nor does his mod appear as a fork of SPD.
If it is on Playstore, Google's 5h!tty search engine doesn't reveal it. Although the code is posted on Github it does not appear in Micro$oft's 5h!tty search engine as a new SPD mod unless searched specifically by name. It was incidental to my researching another mod that I stumbled upon this one.
Although nowhere near the end of the year, I thought I'd let the PD community know that I have been keeping up on the updates and new releases or old finds as best as I can.
Too, I have been improving the code used to create the reports. The icon extractor has gone from 20% accuracy to 90%. The hangups tend to be wherein no ic_launcher, no forground or background, and no mipi exist and an XML is used to point to an improperly named image. For this a simple manual correction is made. Of the more than 500 PD's less than 80 needed correcting, and, it is no longer doing the wrong APK icon.
I finally trapped the UTF-8 Asian characters to handle those APK's names and titles.
The data extraction is now 100%. I have an improved SDK list.
I found a better PDF compressor and I have broken the PDF into pages. Although a single page looks better, several people complained that it caused their viewers to crash whereas multiple page PDF seems to work fine for all.
An example of the new format -
Here one can see that the DEV failed to give the mod a unique name or package name. This APK can therefor only be identified by filename or signature.
The archive totals to date -
Understood. No bad feelings.
FYI, I purchased a copy, $0.49 now, which is itself very suspecious.
I decompiled and examined. It appears to be your SPD v2.5.4 with only 2 changes. The package has been renamed to com.pixel.dungeon and the icon has been changed. Otherwise, it doesn't appear altered.
Actually, this pisses me off. If it had a significant mod at least it might have been worth something. Too, that is money being stolen away from 00-Evan. Anyhow, I'm letting this drop. I'll note it in the releases report I do and hope Google burries it.
Nice asthetics updates. Flickering sconces would be nice.
These barrels are a little better and you are free to use them.
My archive of Pixel Dungeon apk's is now at 500 mods.
😁
I have completed my anual Pixel Dungeon archive.
Over 500 version's covered, more details, more icons, searchable content (prior PDF was image only).
Links to download all apk's, jar's and more are included.
PDF available HERE
User = Pixel
Password = Dungeon
or,
https://pixeldungeon.barnitos.net/
PDreport.pdf is in the Extra folder 📂
Updated Dec. 13th, 2024
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is a Japanese manga comic series.
JoJo's Bizarre Dungeon is a graphical retheme of SPD by Ongoro.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shatteredpixel.shatteredpixeldungeon7&hl=en-US
A few versions back, it stopped working. I thought it was due to API changes with Android 14, but it wasn't. The discussion can be read on this Reddit post -
https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelDungeon/comments/1drrhh6/help_running_a_modreskin_forsatteredpdjojos/
I have decompiled 2.0L, based on SPD v2.5.4, and patched it.
This version works great on my Samsung Galaxy running Android 13 English 🏴
It is hosted on a temporary share server. I ask that someone download and share it.
I'm doing a 6 challenge and got trapped in a treasure room. The Great Crab 🦀 cannot be injured and I cannot escape. Had to end this game. I've played hundreds if not thousands of games and never had this happen before.
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.
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Nice.
Most people seem to need 2-3 hundred plays before winning, so you did well.
I knew a guy who had over 3000 plays and zero wins. He smashed two tablets.
I usually play the Huntress as I prefer ranged strategy.
Now, you can start playing using Challenges ;-)