Balatro might be best known as "the poker roguelike," but poker wasn't the game creator LocalThunk had in mind when he first started developing it, rather a made-up variation of another card game he and his friends played "thousands" of times.
In a new blog post, LocalThunk talks about how "playing cards have always been a part of my life," noting that he thinks he's "played playing card games for far more hours than I have played video games." While he discusses plenty of card games that he's played over the years, he proclaims that "the most important game of them all has to be Big Two, or the variant my friends and I made up called Big Cheat."
