The reason I went back to making Balatro 3 months after I essentially gave it up in March 2022 was because I was bored but the internet was out so I couldn't play Rocket League
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I had a 3ish month span where my friends could play RL but my game wouldn't load and there was nothing I could do about it (it was a known bug). Not being able to play with friends was rough.
Balatro has a tiny number of freedoms compared to reality: only 52 starting cards, no fog of war, no tech tree, no terrain differences, same starting cards & hands every time and you can’t invent new cards during the game. All of these factors and more are present in reality.
Hey, I don’t understand how to play Balatro (I don’t know how to play poker). Everyone says the game is addictive and I want to play, but I don’t know where to start. The tutorial was challenging to understand for me.
Poker hands come in three flavors, same card rank (e.g. pair), same card suit (e.g. flush), cards in a row (e.g. straight),btgese can be combined. You'll score chips and mults, and the sum of those is your score. Jokers and other cards modify all this to make the numbers bigger.
It's such an interesting case study as its first iteration didn't really take off. Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars didn't really seem that different.
I have given up on my oldest pet project because I have never found the money to pay others to help me make the vision I have for it. Which truly suck because it would be a banger of a mind-melting game. Now I'm considering making trashloot games just to try fund a good one.
A very important lesson that it's valid to be bored, because it manifests into untapped creativity! Thank goodness it happened because you honestly deserve the success for such a well crafted timewaster. Long live Jimbo! 🫡
First of all, you guys made a game adored by gamers.
second, steam thinks it's a game (that's your game in this situation), so you're forced to rate it exactly what steam thinks it was meant to, third, you're out of context.
If I recall correctly the first thing I worked on when I picked it back up was the rotational/scale jiggling juice effect when you mouse over playing cards or when they score
honestly? inspirational. this gives me hope for all the projects and stuff i've dropped. they're not truly dead, i just gotta wait for the right time to pick it back up again
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And what are new discoveries?
Once I got over that, Balatro quickly became a favorite pick up and go game.
Thanks for curing not only your boredom, but so many people’s too!💛
Sending this to a buddy who works on RL, they don't understand the power they wield.
In all seriousness though hell yeah
you were given a moment of insanity and were able to resume because of it
Hardstuck but I've been pretty busy with a little project so I have an excuse
See you out there!
second, steam thinks it's a game (that's your game in this situation), so you're forced to rate it exactly what steam thinks it was meant to, third, you're out of context.