Balatro creator LocalThunk stays so anonymous, a GDC attendee couldn't believe how he "crushed" the roguelike's base difficulty: "'Wow you must have played this before…
"One of my fav moments from GDC," LocalThunk says in a series of posts on Bluesky. "They had a booth set up to play Balatro ...
'You must have played this before!': Balatro's creator impressed bystanders with his Balatro skills at GDC, and nobody knew who he was
Balatro developer LocalThunk is notoriously private. It's not some kind of put-on: Wout van Halderen, communications director ...
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Balatro's devs finally settle pronunciation of the game's name
Developers and creatives close to LocalThunk finally settled a question of how to say 'Balatro', but it's kind of a 'we're ...
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Balatro's LocalThunk isn't 'trying to pull a Banksy', he just 'wanted to be left alone to make his game'
But developer LocalThunk never exactly craved the attention Balatro’s success has foisted on him, nor is his commitment to ...
Why Balatro’s developer stays anonymous
LocalThunk was at the Game Developers Conference this week meeting with other developers, but van Halderen and Cheng-Moore ...
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LocalThunk forbids AI-generated art on the Balatro subreddit: 'I think it does real harm to artists of all kinds'
A minor kerfuffle in the Balatro subreddit has led developer LocalThunk to weigh in on the topic of AI-generated art, and his position is clear: It hurts artists, and it's not welcome. As ...
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I've been pronouncing Balatro wrong this whole time, have you?
So, it turns out that I've been pronouncing Balatro wrong all this time, and now feel like a total spade. I really don't know ...
Balatro Creators Answer the Question Everyone’s Been Asking
The publishers of Balatro have offered an official explanation for how to pronounce the game's title, for anyone still ...
Balatro creator impressed onlookers with his card skills at public event, without being recognised
The anonymous creator of Balatro impressed passersby at last month's Game Developer Conference with his card skills, but nobody recognised him.
Game Developers Choice Awards 2025 Names ‘Balatro’ Game Of The Year — Complete Winners List
LocalThunk’s Balatro, developed by Playstack, was deemed a royal flush as it was crowned Game of the Year at the 25th Game Developers Choice Awards. Handed out on Wednesday at the Moscone Center in ...
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Balatro's first big update is still on track for 2025, but it'll be "done when it's done, because it's got to be good before it's fast"
Our only other meaningful, er, update on the Balatro update came courtesy of a Bloomberg interview with LocalThunk earlier this year, where he described it as a "1.1" patch that'd rework the Matador ...
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Random: You've Been Pronouncing Balatro Wrong (Probably)
You see, while we've all been raving about how great "ba-LAH-tro" is, it turns out, Localthunk, perhaps drunk on his newfound ...