Splash Art Improvements | Patreon Weekly #295

Hey Patrons, in this weekly I’m going to go over some upcoming visual improvements to Shattered’s title and splash art! The content here originally appeared in a Shattered Secrets post in December 2024.

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

Splash Arts v2!

Aleks and I have been working on some visual changes for v3.0, mainly focused on the hero splash arts!

(Note that the new images are not 100% accurate to how they’ll appear in-game. In addition to GIF compression, there may be touchups and adjustments made before release.)

Firstly, there’s the Warrior. We’ve got plans to improve the proportions (the Warrior should be beefier!), and are experimenting on the background, broken seal design, and armor details. Unfortunately this one in particular isn’t finished yet, and may be delayed to v3.1. I’m going to make some Warrior changes then anyway though, so it fits fairly well. Here’s a little GIF of our partial progress so far, please keep in mind that this is unfinished!

Next up is the Mage, whose gotten some detail adjustments but is otherwise pretty similar:

The Rogue has gotten more substantial changes, with detail and face adjustments, and a total background and lighting overhaul!

The Huntress has gotten big changes to the lighting, the background, the bow, and her face.

Lastly, just for fun, there were earlier 1.0 versions of the Duelist and Cleric which never saw the light of day. Here’s the Duelist:

and here’s the Cleric:

And lastly, there will be some title screen changes coming to v3.0.0 as well! We may look to change the background in the future, but for now it’s just the title text and torches:

Audio Timestamps

This month there were 21 questions from 11 different Patrons.

• 0:09 "If the Cleric was alive today, would they like Donuts?" - Detective Umbra

• 0:32 "Would the Mage like donuts more? Which hero would eat the most donuts?" - Supernewb

• 0:59 "Over on the main Pixel Dungeon server, there have been a few, but constant, ideas about getting new variations of Armor. Have you considered this, and may we have some insight on what those considerations are?" - Raynuva

• 3:07 "turns out i need to get more organized, here is the real board after pawn to d3, what shall the move be?" - radiantchaos

  

• 3:40 "What do think about the 1 star reviews on the google play store complaining about snakes? Do you find it funny by how many there are or are you annoyed by the fact that the game literally tells you how to deal with them?" - Terry

• 6:12 "When we get interface-based shops, could the Merchant's Beacon come back as an item that lets us remotely BUY items?" - Block Vader

• 7:30 "how good is your french?" - radiantchaos

• 8:25 "How are you" - Veek

• 10:28 "I've been asking a lot of people this since my house is currently in about 10 inches of snow, but how has the weather been recently in your area?" - Terry

• 11:11 "why did you change the shape of the potions?" - radiantchaos

• 11:42 "Before hit numbers were changed, what was the difference between orange and red hit numbers" - Detective Umbra

• 12:26 "This has become a topic of discussion in the main pd server a few times, and I'm curious about the reasoning behind the shared upgrades rework. Was it meant as a rework targetted at high chal players? Was it having too high of a winrate with low tier throwies in lower challenge runs? Or was it something else entirely? Anything you can/are willing to share about the rework and the thought process behind it would be great." - MAXIBOB

• 14:00 "Why is the poor, sweet, wonderful black mimic so hated upon?" - greenapathy630

• 15:46 "The heroes each choose a favorite wand. What do they pick?" - Veek

• 16:56 "do you ever plan to repurpose some of the older stuff? things such as the cape of thorns or old removed alchemy stuff? I think alot of these could be more interesting now that the game is a little more "fleshed out"" - ultraviolettelight

• 18:09 "What would each hero pick as a subclass if they actually had self-autonomy instead of being controlled by us?" - Detective Umbra

• "This may be a long ways off, but what do you think about the idea of every boss dropping some type of special item that affects gameplay? For example Tengu drops his mask and Rodney drops his crown. What other possible items would other bosses drop?" - Terry

  The above question was skipped by mistake, sorry about that! To answer it, Yog gives the amulet of course, and Goo/DM-300 both drop unique alchemy items. Obviously the alchemy items aren't as impactful as the mask or crown, but there's not really enough design space for every boss to drop an item like that. I would like for the alchemy produce to be a bit more impactful though.

• 19:17 "(Following up on my last week's Q&A, regarding Warframe) Should you begin to play it again, would you be open for us Patreons to join and hang out with you?" - Raynuva

• 20:35 "(Following up on my last week's Q&A, regarding software development monetization) I agree that Legendary Drops conflates "developers" (the hands-on-keyboard folks) and "Devs" (the entire organizational structure). I think his primary critique is against the "Devs" and the decision makers, who want to go with the "get rich quick" mentality. What are some studios or developers that you are aware of that match more towards Digital Extremes' focus towards monetization." - Raynuva

• 23:39 "Is there a change to the game you would like to make but feel it would be too unpopular?" - #1 ring of force stan

• 25:47 "What happens when we "Call it a day"?" - Detective Umbra