Joker Maker (concept for a mod)

[ebon notch]

I do not know how to program! This is just an idea of a hypothetical mod. Give me your feedback below!

The Joker Maker mod would have a Scratch style programing language ui where the player would be able to create a joker with its own unique stats and abilities. The following are the block categories and the blocks themselves:

Beginning blocks - blocks that would start a joker's effects:

• [no condition]
• When blind is selected:
• When exiting the shop:
• After entering the shop:
• When a booster pack is bought:
• When a booster pack is skipped:
• After rerolling:
• When a [Joker/consumable/standard card] is bought:
• When a voucher is bought:
• When a hand is played:
• When a discard is used:
• If played hand contains [suit/rank/edition/enhancement/number of cards]:
• If discarded cards contain [suit/rank/edition/enhancement/number of cards]:
• If cards held in hand when a hand is played contain a [suit/rank/edition/enhancement/number of cards]:
• If you have [discards/hands/handsize/money]:
• if you're at the [small blind/big blind/boss blind/final boss]:
  etc...

Effect blocks - effects applied if the beginning block's requirement is met:

• +[x] [mult/chips]
• Gain [x]$.
• Gain [x] [hands/discards/handsize].
• Copy the [position] card.
• Scale [x] [mult/xmult/chips/money/handsize]
• x[x] mult
• Create a [consumable]
  etc...

thsi can def be expanded a lot more, so please give me your ideas!

(I am aware this doesnt include every possibility, btw)

[ebon notch]

what?

[vivid prism]

RNJoker from Cryptid:

[ebon notch]

Who

[fading kayak]

bumping this so i can see it

[ebon notch]

Uh, thanks?

[fading kayak]

im learning to code in lua for modding balatro, and this idea is amazing, i wanna try to do it

[ebon notch]

Oh thats great to hear! Im glad you took interest in my idea :)

Although, im not sure if this is too complex?

[fading kayak]

it might be

but honestly idm

ill give it a go

[ebon notch]

Id say start by making standard jokers first

But i mean if you wanna just go for it then do!

[fading kayak]

i mean i can make it a tool, i doubt an in game menu would work

for your idea

[ebon notch]

Hm

Well, regardless

The original idea was in-game ui but

It doesnt have to be

The original idea was to allow non-coders to still be able to make unique jokers, although obviously limited

[fading kayak]

i understand, im probably gonna make it with python so it still has a gui with code blocks

[ebon notch]

Nice!

Keep me updated!

[fading kayak]

ill try

[main wagon]

i had this idea for a while

problem: i cant code ui for shit

[light bronze]

shit ?

[restive orbit]

“I can’t code ui worth of shit.” Is likely what he meant

That or he is coding for a client named shit

[fading kayak]

what i got so far, most of the base code is in, idk how well itll work since some is written by AI but for not its good

[ebon notch]

Cool

[drifting vault]

sometimes I forget that English idioms are in fact idioms

[marsh raft]

nice
yippee

[fading kayak]

looking slightly better

still working on the features of the gui

[verbal quiver]

oh this is so fire

i would love at some point for this to look good

balatro ui theme

[fading kayak]

looks like this rn

[verbal quiver]

i really like the idea of this growing more in the future

[winter notch]

Dropping by cause this seems interesting, someone @ me if this ever gets a little further in development

[fading kayak]

the mod is functional currently, im working on making it execute outside of developmental apps like vs code

[ebon notch]

Interesting!

Are you planning on adding the whole "block system"?

[fading kayak]

sadly thats out of my leage

[ebon notch]

That's fine

[fading kayak]

https://github.com/tyuugy/tomFoolery starts to form!

Currently, this tool creates a folder containing a .lua file with your chosen Joker, along with the image you uploaded through the GUI. Once you hit "Save," the tool automatically generates the file, so all you need to do is place it into the mod folder

working on modifiers

[cosmic trench]

[drifting vault]

you should be able to rename the iage in the gui

so it generates a joker definition with the right name and you don't need to remember before uploading it

[fading kayak]

for the actual code please talk to @cosmic trench

im merely the director

[cosmic trench]

right now this is how that works. it takes the pic from your pc ( aka what ever name it will be will show in the gui) then when it makes the files and stuff it rename it and resize it all auto done by the code. i don't really see a point to change the name of the pic when thats only shown in the code and not the game itself

the auto rename right now is just joker_image.png and from my testing works well

[drifting vault]

I mean the stadard naming convnetion for joker images is [key].png. May as well use that if there's alreadsy an auto rename function

[cosmic trench]

lol i did not know that i am new to this game thanks to tyuugy and he is telling me about stuff and i am just coding lol. if it comes to it i might change it. also it's open so once it's done done users can come and help out if it's good lol.

[drifting vault]

it's not like official or anything, but yeah every mod I've seen thag uses seperate sprites instread of an atlas does it that way

no worries regardless

[cosmic trench]

mmmmmmmmmmm

the code is updated in the gethub if you want to check out the way i have it now. and see if i am doing something wrong and point me in the right way

[cosmic trench]

@drifting vault ^

[drifting vault]

can't sem to get it to run on linux, though I'm not 100% sure why

[cosmic trench]

What’s the error?

[fading kayak]

do you have python installed?

[drifting vault]

yes, and I figured out how to install tkinter too

[fading kayak]

cool

we are working on making an executable

[drifting vault]

don't think leaking my first name is an issue, lol

[fading kayak]

we dont really care about it any way, you are gay coonie for all i car

[drifting vault]

also fair warning, I probably won't be much help. I've never coded a mod (DeFused is all reused assets) and while I do have slightly more experience with python, it's from when I was in college 5 years ago

[fading kayak]

nah dw

any help appreicated

[cosmic trench]

pip install Pillow

[fading kayak]

i cant code for shit, noodels did all the work pretty much

[drifting vault]

says I already have it

[cosmic trench]

not this again

idk whats going on

[fading kayak]

i had the exact same issue

[cosmic trench]

it works for me lol

[drifting vault]

maybe my python installation is fucky. Python seems to love dependecy hell

[cosmic trench]

i might remove it

tbh

[drifting vault]

might remove what?

[cosmic trench]

the thing that is using pill

it's just the display thing for the pic and info on the card

[cosmic trench]

aka this

[drifting vault]

ah, it seems nice to have though

idk why python is... the way it is

[cosmic trench]

i lowkey hate python

but i have to learn it

so

[fading kayak]

this should work (?)

[drifting vault]

lemme get wine installed to test

[fading kayak]

sounds like a plan

[drifting vault]

seems to work so far.

[fading kayak]

WOOOO

[drifting vault]

I'm guessing adding fucntionality isn't implemented yet?

[fading kayak]

not yet

[fading kayak]

but if you want to be part of the credits, imjussayin

[drifting vault]

lol I mean I wouldn't complain but all I've done so far is ask some silly question and confirm the exe works under wine for me

[fading kayak]

i was talking about this

[drifting vault]

oh I seeee

yeah I don't think I know nearly enough about modding to do much to help with that unforutnately

Maybe if I manage to get more than literally 0 experience sometime soon

and remind myself how to do python in addition to learning lus

[cosmic trench]

wworking on adding stuff that lets the cards do stuff

and it works lol

2k mult

from that one card

lol

[fading kayak]

honestly, not even the craziest modded thing ive seen

2k is weak

loser

(obv im joking about that last part)

[glossy maple]

I'd like to make this into a web generator like I did for DSP as someone suggested
I'm not familiar with joker modding, but would be a fun project
can you point me to any resources? I know Steamodded wiki and examples, but that's it

[drifting vault]

Well... those pretty much /are/ the resources

Beyond that just reference other mods

And feel free to ask for help in #💻・modding-dev at any time

[cosmic trench]

i am working on joker mod gui right now and might also make it into a discord bot as well as an gui on the pc. right now working on getting the (tags) to work in game like mult and the rest.

once it's done you are more then welcome to use my code to learn and use off. as modding in this game has to be open so

but due to me going to make a discord bot and a gui for it idk if a web page will work well

as you can see it's working right now lol

[glossy maple]

let's see, it's just my preference and I learn by doing so I'd take the chance

[normal flint]

wait I'm kind of confused, this exe file can do the code for making Jokers including adding chips conditions?