various joker cards in balatro As far as developers are concerned, LocalThunk tends to be a pretty private person. Despite the game’s massive success over the last year, the developer remains ...

Balatro. BAH-luh-tro. Ba-LAH-tro. Millions of us have said it once or twice over the last year, but we’ve also often caught each other off-guard with our own myriad pronunciations of the game ...

You can find them on X and Bluesky @chocobalt. Languages: English. Balatro seemingly can't stop scoring victories. The indie hit from developer LocalThunk revealed another round of cosmetic ...

He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Balatro just won four Game Developers Choice Awards, including Game of the Year, but the person who made the game wasn’t on stage ...

“Balatro” won Game of the Year at the 2025 Game Developers Choice Awards (GDCA) on Wednesday, just after “Consume Me” received the top prize at the Independent Games Festival Awards (IGFA).

it wasn’t long after this experience that LocalThunk started having opportunities to “watch the fruits of [his] labour for once,” like watching a pre-launch Balatro tournament livestream ...

At several points during the development of Balatro, LocalThunk relied heavily on people who played early builds — at first, his friends, and later, a group of playtesters. That feedback wasn ...