Cleric Visual Polish | Patreon Weekly #299

Hey Patreons, in this weekly I’m going to go over the final visual changes I’m making before v3.0 releases!

This weekly also includes an audio Q&A! You can find audio timestamps at the end of this weekly.

Visual Changes

So the metamorphosis effects were added to the Cleric’s talents a few days ago, and with that the only changes left are visual adjustments before release! Unfortunately there’s a little bit more of that than you might think.

Firstly there is the in-game art. I’m going to try and mildly adjust the Cleric’s hair, but it’s honestly not in too bad a place as it is. It doesn’t match the splash perfectly, but it’s hardly alone on that front. The hero armor is in a much worse place though, being a directly copy of the Warrior’s currently. I’ve started making some adjustments there, and plan to polish this up a bit today before getting it into the beta, and maybe making further changes afterward based on feedback. Here’s where we’re at as of this morning, you can get the general idea but lots of detail work is needed, the two sprites don’t even agree with each other on some details right now!

More substantially though, there are also big visual changes to make to Shattered’s storefront presence! Basically all of Shattered’s various store assets are from March 2021 (when I released on Steam), with only minor edits to the text. Lots of text can still be preserved, but with a second new hero, new splash arts, and a new title graphic, it’s time to refresh things! Take a look at the game’s current steam page if you want to see just how dated things are right now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1769170/Shattered_Pixel_Dungeon/

I don’t know how much of this stuff I’ll get through before launch, which I currently have tentatively planned for this Friday the 28th, but I want to at least remove all the various instances of the old title graphics and splash art. The biggest job will be the trailer, it’s high time to redo it, both to show off the new heroes and also just to do a better job of showing off the game in general.

Audio Timestamps

This month there were 17 questions from 8 different Patrons.

• 0:08 "i will castle king side to make my king nice and cozy, what shall you do?" - Radiantchaos

  

• 1:08 "A lot of people in the Pixel Dungeon community have started also playing a game called Balatro, a poker roguelike that gained a lot of attention from being a Game of the Year nominee. I keep describing it as "digital crack." (Yes, it's quite addictive, but very fun.) Have you ever played it? Would you want to at some point if you haven't? And if you have, what did you think of it?" - Terry

  

• 4:03 "What's your favorite roguelike/lite of all time (other than spd)? And if you've been playing any recently, what's the one you've been enjoying the most lately?" - MAXIBOB

• 5:12 "What are some new enemy types you have concepted for Demon Halls." - Detective Umbriel

• 6:00 "Would the ring of energy charge your phone" - #1 ring of force stan

• 7:34 "How viable would the Ethereal Chains be for real life travel? Considering it's charges and what they can do, how well would it preform? Also, perhaps it's not just for travel, maybe there's another scenario they can be used for as well?" - Terry

• 9:47 "What experience level are some of the NPCs in the game, such as Ghost (before they died), Shopkeeper, Wandmaker, Troll or Imp." - ultraviolettelight

• 11:27 "Is the shopkeeper secretly the most powerful character? He seems to be able to teleport between levels and is able to dissauade the enemies from attacking him." - Detective Umbriel

• 12:12 "How are you" - Veek

• 13:09 "Disregarding actual gameplay mechanics, who owns the most powerful personal item, for example the Cloak of Shadows? (Sorry Duelist)" - Veek

• 14:26 "How did Shattered PD end up on the Amazon Appstore? And why didn't it update past 0.9.3c?" - Block Vader

• 18:13 "my friend recently knit me a scarf, do you like it? (and for a bit more context, its a remake of eridan's scarf from homestuck)" - radiantchaos

  

• 19:09 "What do you think of my persona?" - Detective Umbriel

  

• 19:56 "Were there ever any other hero classes you had planned, if so what were they?" - Detective Umbriel

• 20:41 "whats your favorite soundtrack piece from shattered pixel dungeon?" - Radiantchaos

• 21:10 "What are the heights of the heros" - Detective Umbriel

• 22:06 "Who's your favorite character story wise." - Detective Umbriel