Localthunk, the developer behind breakout roguelike poker game Balatro, has stepped in to resolve a bit of a scrum in the ...

Balatro was one of the best games of 2024, and yet, even its creator felt that it wouldn't be received well by reviewers.

Balatro developer Local Thunk has published an extensive history of the game's development to his personal blog, in which he admits he didn't play any rogue-like games at all during Balatro's ...

It’s also about the lessons he learned about making and marketing a game that went on to sell millions of copies and won ...

I wanted to make mistakes, I wanted to reinvent the wheel, I didn’t want to borrow tried-and-true designs from existing games.” You may like Balatro dev says solitaire exists "at the peak of ...

Balatro developer Local Thunk has published an extensive history of the game's development to his personal blog, in which he admits he didn't play any rogue-like games at all during Balatro's ...

The next month, he secured several instrumental pieces of the game: the score by Luis Clemente; the flame effect that happens when you get an amazing score; and the name Balatro.

"All I knew about Steam is that there were about a million games on there and that very few could realistically make a living ...

Holy s***. Now that is a game.” Despite not wanting previous deckbuilders to influence their work on Balatro, five months later, in October 2023, another note on Slay the Spire appeared ...

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