After selling 1 million copies, Balatro creator admits it's "held together with hopes and dreams" as game devs rally around the roguelike's beautifully nightmarish code

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Remember the goal is to ship games, not make the neatest and most elegant code routines.

I don’t know of any clean code enthusiasts who can boast such earnings from their own products.

They usually earn from consulting and selling books on clean code.Telling, no?

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Ultimately, that’s whatLocalThunk figures, too.

If it’s dumb and it works then it’s not dumb!"

Wespoke with LocalThunk about Balatro’s ingenious twists on pokerearlier this year.