Lately I’ve been really hooked on #balatro.
I found out it uses the #löve2d engine, and I remembered something about Löve games being unintentionally cross platform.
Mildly hot programming take.
People who bashed Balatro's "massive scroll of ifs" are ignoring the facts that:
Game dev is fundamentally different from modern GUI/web dev.
Developing a single-player game solo is very different even from developing a big game with a team and a lifecycle, not to mention a continually-delivered web project.
Somebody shared the source code for parts of #Balatro. It's a great game and the devs don't deserve to have it stolen so that's not cool.
On the other hand. Do you remember those memes about if/else blocks to assign a number to a string of that number? That's literally how their code works.
Just goes to show, you don't need to be an excellent programmer to program an excellent game.
@yannrdr est tombé dans le piège #Balatro ! 🃏
Ce jeu de cartes entre poker, solitaire et rogue-lite vous propose un défi permanent, mais très amusant. Écoutez la suite de son test dans le dernier épisode de La Cartouche, sur Blueprint.pm et vos plateformes d'écoute préférées 🎧 #podcast
March is nearing its end, so it's time to look back at what I have done!
Let's start with gaming: I started and completed Stray this month and it was a fascinating little game that was short and very enjoyable. You play as a cat and that by itself is jusr wonderful.
I played a lot of Balatro and it gave me the idea for my own cardgame, which I am actively working on.
Civ 6 is another mainstay. I managed to beat a game with Elizabeth in my fourth attempt!
Un nouvel épisode de La Cartouche apparaît ! @yannrdr et @alexleserveur refont le tour des dernières annonces du monde vidéoludique avant de vous parler en long et en cartes de #Balatro