This is what I need more of from the internet.

The author also wrote about his experience making a space shooter game for the E-Reader:

https://mattgreer.dev/blog/making-a-shooter-for-the-ereader/

re: numbers, you could store them as integers, but just encoded as 10 times their value. So 1.5 becomes 15.

Would reduce max score to 400M and you'd have to round 0.25 up or down. Would probably want to drop the 0.01 cards too.

super cool project

I also love Balatro, and can say that's shockingly good work especially considering the limitations of the platform. Clearly a labor of love, and I love it.

Guy made it for the C64, even with good music!

https://ko-ko74.itch.io/balatro-for-the-commodore-64-c64

This was painful to read, and I am so sorry for the author.

I was fortunate enough to break my Balatro addiction before it had gotten this far along, but others are not so lucky.

If you're hitting sprite limits because you used up all the sprite slots, you're doing something wrong. Sprites are for moving objects that need to exist outside of grid alignment. For steady objects, put them in a background layer. If you need a different alignment than 8x8 tiles, you can use two overlapping layers to get 4-pixel horizontal alignment instead.

I think floating point is viable - balatro doesn't exactly perform billions of floating point operations per second.

While I understand the sentiment of Playstack and LocalThunk to take down these kind of ports, it's a shame for the community because this will only make the game grow more.

I’m one of the people that don’t “get” Balatro. I do get how to play it (to a certain level at least), and I’ve certainly been drawn to a bunch of rogue-like games, some of which I still play (Into the Breach for example), but Balatro is just… too distilled for me, to a point where it’s almost absurd.

It’s literally “number go up”, there’s barely any “fluff”, and that bugs me for a reason.

In that regard, it reminds me of cookie clicker, although it distills different aspects. That, too, I stopped playing pretty quickly. I saw coworkers who would play it all the time in the background, and that kind of put me off. Almost philosophically.

Balatro has more “game” than Cookie Clicker, but I’m still slightly repelled by its relatively direct “number go up” aspect. (“Repelled” is a bit of a strong and rude word, but I couldn’t think of anything better right now. I don’t hate Balatro.)