When starting development on his hit roguelike, Balatro creator set out to recreate a made-up card game he played "thousands" of times with his friends

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We must have played thousands of games together.

Big Two and Big Cheat weren’t Balatro’s only inspirations, of course.

I made the fun game I wanted to make."