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patapongtoday at 7:57 PM2 repliesview on HN

One of the biggest recent indie hits, Balatro, was made in Löve!

I really like it, the developer experience is so smooth for beginners, just drag a zip onto the exe and it starts. And the APIs are simple enough to memorize while allowing pretty cool rendering stuff.


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bsimpsontoday at 9:17 PM

In case you're curious, here's a Nix derivation to make Balatro for any other system playable on Linux:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/by-name/ba...

I wrote half a blog post when I did the derivation. One day, I should finish it and post it here.

KeplerBoytoday at 8:07 PM

Balatro ships with the entire unobfuscated Lua source by the way.

I once checked if the odds stated on a card were implemented wrong. Turns out no, the code checks out, I'm just that unlucky.

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