Indie phenomenon Balatro beat off all-comers to be crowned PCG's 2024 GOTY, and developer LocalThunk recently marked just over a year since release by sharing the "Balatro timeline" of the game's development.
It's a detailed, dramatic and in parts deeply amusing account of how "some kind of project" called CardGame began in December 2021, then the highs and lows of indie development: Friends getting hooked, the search for a publisher, the endless doubts.
