I've had parts of this written down for a while - but I thought it was about time to document the detailed version of what happened during Balatro development
https://localthunk.com/blog/balatro-timeline-3aarh
https://localthunk.com/blog/balatro-timeline-3aarh
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Thanks for making something people love so much!
Thanks for sharing this, this is oddly inspirational I think to read through
How is your health now? Anxiety attacks are absolutely horrible.
Finally, we have it all.
Nothing like a good game dev journey ✨
Successful games used to be able to get approx. 4x day1 revenue in week1, but due to the virality of yours, I'm guessing it was probably more. Therefore so your Birkett Ratio could easily be over 2.0, or even 3.0.
If you worry about unwanted publicity, rest assured - we are not very popular 😁👍.
This proves how much effort it is and that game dev is never an overnight success makes me feel a bit better
Current status: massive anxiety and delusional hope for better days 😄
especially considering I'm getting nowhere near the same happy ending that tied that rollercoaster down
@dangheesling.com plays Balatro on his stream.
♥️
Was not prepared to this reading
Congrats on getting through it all!
Hope you feel OK now. Take care.
hard to hear how much stress and mental health problems it ended up bringing you though, hope youre in a better place now
Congrats on the success, and hopefully things on the health front are improving! You’ve definitely earned both.
side note: I hope your health (mental and physical) are doing so much better now