Development of Shattered Pixel Dungeon v3.0 is now well underway!
v3.0's big new feature is the game's sixth hero: The Cleric! They're going to be a divine magic user with a wide variety of defensive, supportive, and utility spells.
I'll be sharing most posts about them in future posts here, but for now here's a little peek at their splash art.
(Image description: "A pixel-blurred image of the Cleric's splash art.")
Oh man! This is so cool! I'm really excited to see where this goes! I love the shit out of this game. It gets a bit stale sometimes, but only enough for me to set it down for a few days and then get right back to it.
It happens a lot that a very repeated design gets treated as a "normal" thing, and then it looses all sense of link to the original idea, making it not an inspiration but a topic.
"Holy Warrior in a mix of cloth and plate" is a pretty common character concept. I will say though that the upper chest guard was a particular stylistic choice by Aleks, but I don't think it had a specific character inspiration.