Bad Grades — LocalThunk Years ago, when I was in what was supposed to be my final year of University, I decided to drop out of engineering. The people were great, my marks were fine. I just didn’t have passion for it and the...

Happy 2nd birthday Jimbo!
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Save 10% on Nice To Yeet You on Steam Welcome to the BOUNCE! Grab your controller, buckle up, and prepare for a face-off like no other in Nice to Yeet You!

My friend @tricko.bsky.social launched his first ever game in early access today! I’ve played it with him and some other devs over the past year, it’s great fun

It’s a cool take on platform/fighter, and it even has online multiplayer!

Crash his servers >:)

store.steampowered.com/app/3108230/...

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I’m Slow — LocalThunk Hello people, long time no chat! I have some unfortunate news: The promised 2025 Balatro 1.1 update isn’t going to come out in 2025. I know, I announced that it would, but it has become clear now th...

I wanted to give an update on the Balatro 1.1 release date:

localthunk.com/blog/im-slow

TL;DR is that it will not be coming out in 2025, it is still coming out for sure, and I'm sorry. The new timeline is "it's done when it's done"

Please read the blog post for more details

✨️I've been working on this lovely game with a lovely team!✨️

Please give this project some love (and wishlists!)

Hope you enjoyed the trailer!❤️

My friend Paci has been working on this for a while, so cool to see the store page after all the iterations the game has gone through!

Very excited for this one ⛏️ one of those games I’ll probably sink a bunch of hours into on my Steam Deck

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What a year it's been!

After a year of hard work we can finally let you try Nice To Yeet You!

#gamedev #indiegame #fightinggame #brawler #nicetoyeetyou #ntyy

1/2

You will be completely lost unless you watch the original trilogy + director’s cuts

Well good thing this is just a 3 hour 12 minute runtime CGI-bloated over budget poorly written feature film then

Balatro 4: Jimborigins

if you wanna make video games as a career you have to enjoy the process of making video games. its not enough to just enjoy the end result. same goes for most types of creative works

Nope! I have no earthly idea what he’s talking about 🌝

I’m really stoked to play my friend’s game The Quizard’s Domain when it releases!

Looks like it’s coming along great so far

If you don't know Dan, he's the dev behind Luck Be a Landlord; the game that inspired me to make Balatro and influenced tons of other devs to expand on this genre he shaped

His newest game Maze Mice just left early access! You should check it out! I'm going to be playing it all weekend

Mostly Ghost, some Painted and Yellow as well. Every now and then I'd throw in a random one too just for fun

I have 100% completed Balatro!

Was a ton of fun to hunt for Completionist++. I play a few runs before bed and it's been a great part of my daily routine. I think it's also equipped me to better design the 1.1 update

Pumped to do it all over again with the new content when it comes out!

People and media often say Balatro was made by 'one guy'. I feel like that unfortunately may be stoking the flames of this David vs. Goliath narrative a tiny bit

No it was not 'one guy', look at the dang in-game credits

OMG! 20,000 Wishlists. 🎉🎉🎉

Thank you all so much. This has never happened to us before. It's quite something. :-)

Wishlist Forbidden Solitaire: store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...

Play Arco. Arco is a game that is good, unique, and gorgeous. Play Arco. What more could you want? Have you played Arco yet?

🅰️rco

But fr I’m at 146/150 for completionist++ and getting a taste of my own medicine

>:)

this isn't about them, but I'm not letting them off the hook either lol
There's like a 95% chance that if the game is FTP then the main menu UI is more complicated than the actual game UI

Like I get why people add those things but you're shooting your UX in the foot if players are having their first impression and also being bombarded with a bunch of nonsense that isn't actually the game

The honest reason I don't have microtransactions/season pass/ads/100 DLCs/etc in Balatro isn't just about the ethics of those practices but because when I play other games that have those things it makes me want to put my computer in the dishwasher and set it to pots & pans

I'm not I love it there

yeah that's right, a bunnyhug

and yes, this is a bunnyhug

Pointless Balatro lore: When I started Balatro dev I was living in my hometown of Regina, Saskatchewan. I had a bus stop outside my apartment (similar to the one in this image) and I based the art of 'Ride the Bus' on that bus stop!

Every time I see that joker it reminds me of my old apartment

Nobody understands gambling, especially in video games YouTube video by Polygon

I'm glad this video was somehow still able to happen despite all the garbage the staff at @polygon.com have gone through. Please give it a watch and support independent games media.

lmfao ok