[WIP/Concepting] Spark Cards - A new, broad way to enhance Jokers

[narrow magnet]

this will probably have low levels of activity; but heres a mock up.

Spark cards change joker values

its a very useful idea; imo

heres an example of some of the things they'll have

Plug Packs, Electrical Tag for Plug Packs

[brave grotto]

fork spectral

[narrow magnet]

Fork would be like a Joker

Fork [Rare] - When blind selected, destroy a random Spark card; and create a random Negative Consumable

[jovial tendon]

If you want I can make the art for that.

Already did a spoon for something I'm working on, I can do a fork

[narrow magnet]

oh thank you so much for the offer

i'd be very happy for that; the art looks great :D, but of course you dont owe me any art

[narrow magnet]

spark card template

its meant to be like

an electrical bo

x

like these

[jovial tendon]

hell yeah

though i dont think that would look too good as an edition :<

would you mind if i take a crack at it :3

[jovial tendon]

also thank you!!!

[narrow magnet]

nono

its a consumable set

spark cards are USED

you use them to enhance stuff

[jovial tendon]

i see

[jovial tendon]

this would be the equivilant of a magician card

OHHH

I UNDERSTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND

so wait

is sparked like

an edition?

or something?

because if you get to just double all values on a given joker, that seems very very powerful

it should be like a spectral or something

like hex ankh

should also have a big ole downside

[silent crest]

@narrow magnet hii im an artist and i really like your mod idea idk if you want any help?

[jovial tendon]

ay!

i already marked this territory!

:(

/j ofc :3c

[silent crest]

https://tenor.com/view/macaco-incredulo-macaco-comendo-incredulo-pensando-gif-16973114890303741264

chill

iwanna help

and would be great for me to practice balatro art style for my mod

[narrow magnet]

hey; thanks

do you have any

examples

of what you can draw :D

[silent crest]

give me a sec

[narrow magnet]

nono; it just doubles the values, its a consumable

i will nerf it tho

to just

[jovial tendon]

we see a coder in the wild and jump at them like moths to a flame

[narrow magnet]

one random Joker

[jovial tendon]

oh ok

if its a random joker thats better

but like

[silent crest]

im into like tiny stuff so mainly i can draw jokers and all

[narrow magnet]

yeah; i dont wanna get too "Cryptid" with this mod

[jovial tendon]

making photo do x4 instead of x2 seems wild

[jovial tendon]

yeah

[narrow magnet]

yeah; but spark cards are gonna be rare

about a bit rarer than spectrals

so like

the rarest consumable type

due to their power

[narrow magnet]

btw; it might be a while until coding starts

art and concepting come first

and i'll need like 10 of the spark cards to concept

supercharge is my only one so far

[silent crest]

@narrow magnetthis is the best i could fine but this is 2 years old i were trying too simulate fluids but if want i can do a fast sketch or sum

[jovial tendon]

btw\

kail

how hard is it actually to mod balatro

add jokers that do their own funny thing and whatnot

ive been meaning to get into it

it seems very fun

[brave grotto]

i'm not that guy but

as a person who started out with 0 lua knowledge

[narrow magnet]

not hard honestly

[brave grotto]

it's not that bad

[narrow magnet]

me too

i went into this, 0 lua knowledge like 2 months ago

and in 2 months

[jovial tendon]

yeah thats what ive heard from everyone

[brave grotto]

same

[jovial tendon]

lua is supposidly really easy

[narrow magnet]

im like fully experienced with mod making

infact

i went in

with

0 CODING KNOWLEDGE

[brave grotto]

i went in with python knowledge at least

[jovial tendon]

and i already do have some coding knowledge

[narrow magnet]

so balatro is my first go into coding ever; and i aced it all in 2 months

[brave grotto]

if you're gonna start out I highly recommend vscode with the lua plugin

[silent crest]

lua is not crazy hard but the thing is balatro got some internal logics so you need to adapt

[jovial tendon]

ill look into the code of the main game

[brave grotto]

and look at the example mods

[narrow magnet]

and im young; so anyone older than me can do it to; in less time.

[brave grotto]

the example mods are amazing for this

[jovial tendon]

i see

[brave grotto]

https://github.com/Steamopollys/Steamodded/blob/main/example_mods/Mods/ExampleJokersMod/ModdedVanilla.lua

this is the one for jokers, there's others for other things

these give you SMODS examples of most basic joker systems

[silent crest]

and as far as i know there are already some tutorials right?

[jovial tendon]

yep

im watching one right now

[brave grotto]

there is one good video tutorial somewhere around here

[jovial tendon]

https://youtu.be/Zp-4U5TlbxY

[silent crest]

that can help a lot in the journey

[brave grotto]

yeah that one

and also the context guide

[jovial tendon]

?

[brave grotto]

https://ptb.discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1247703015222149120

balatro uses "contexts" for when things happen

[narrow magnet]

ok; nto to be rude but

can we; steer a bit back

onto the forum topic

[jovial tendon]

this isnt the place lol

[brave grotto]

yes yes

can i get splash fusion permission with your mod even though it doesn't exist yet

assuming you have a joker of course

this is a joker only deal

we're not racist

[silent crest]

@narrow magneti wanted to ask

are you making a new booster pack or is like a genereted thing?

i mean the spark cards

[narrow magnet]

booster packs are included

i call them

Plug Packs

[silent crest]

oh cool

and the main idea is more like math jokers

like 2x joker numbers

rigth?

[narrow magnet]

the second one is right

art for supercharge

compared to mock up

night and day

[narrow magnet]

anyone habve thoughts on this

the art

[silent crest]

really cool

[jovial tendon]

oh thats neat

[silent crest]

but if the yellow thing is electricity it doesnt look that electric

[jovial tendon]

yeah i was about to say, if it's supposed to be a spark of lightning, it doesnt really look it

its too dull and plastic-y

it looks like a solid object

[narrow magnet]

sorry about that

i cant really

draw electricity

too well

[jovial tendon]

(if you want i can help :3333333333333333333 )

[narrow magnet]

i dont really know how to convey what i was trying to draw but

the art is meant to represent a ball of electricity having sparks of electricity stabbing out of it

[jovial tendon]

sounds good

ill just draw the actual spark on a transparent background so you can do whatever you want with it

[narrow magnet]

yeah i was thinking of it like that

thank you SO MUCH for volunteering to help out by the way

i dont deserve the help; but im so grateful that you and others are supporting my first real mod like this

[jovial tendon]

of course, us artists are chomping at the bits for an interesting project to work on

at least me, anyway

[narrow magnet]

i wont set a release date yet

but, ill trust myself to say

December 2024 is my goal

[jovial tendon]

dude no stress

i just like this cus i get to draw funny balala

[narrow magnet]

no; i was mostly saying it to give myself a goal, i dont want to procrastinate making this forever like my other mods

[jovial tendon]

fair

[narrow magnet]

the last mod i made was...

troubled

it had updates every day, but was low quality

i want to prevent that here

[jovial tendon]

this seems reletively simple to make, aswell

not that i know lol

[narrow magnet]

yeah; its really not too hard

i can mostly

steal from cryptids code from this

since

[jovial tendon]

true

[narrow magnet]

they do x2 value stuff

Paralysis - "1 in 4 chance for this Joker not to trigger when triggered; at end of round 1 in 4 chance to be removed"

sticker idea for the mod

its basically pokemon paralysis

[jovial tendon]

and use balaUi for actually putting things in the game

[narrow magnet]

wait wtf is this?

this is so USEFUL

[jovial tendon]

[narrow magnet]

i've been doing it by hand all this time

and THIS existedd

bruh :|

[jovial tendon]

just glad i found this before i started modding myself :3

[silent crest]

@narrow magneti did a simple thunder too see if you want me to help on the art i hoe you like it if got any questions or something pls tell me

[narrow magnet]

oh my god that looks incredible; thanks so much :D could you send me just that bolt if possible

like none of the card stuff, or the joker text

just the lightning part?

[silent crest]

of course

dm or right here?

@narrow magnet?

oh and

[narrow magnet]

oh sorry

here should work

since its on topic

[brave grotto]

thats fuckin epic

[silent crest]

i work on that period of time it can take to an hour or 2 or even 3 depending on complexity

thats the actual balatro res as far as i know

[narrow magnet]

nice; that'll def work as joker art

now to think of an idea

Thunder [Uncommon] - On blind select, create a random Spark card; 1 in 2 chance to destroy one joker.

[silent crest]

o great

[jovial tendon]

we can do a shocked joker where its a jimbo being electrocuted

i could make that if you want :3

[silent crest]

if want i can even work with special geometry

like the four card joker or that

[jovial tendon]

?

[narrow magnet]

ooh that'd be funny

[narrow magnet]

wait, what if like the card background is like burnt paper colour

like its been covered in soot

[jovial tendon]

we can do that

i can def do that

and the joker is like mr.bones

this type of deal

[narrow magnet]

rough draft of what it could look like

burnt joker sort of background

shocked jimbo

[jovial tendon]

wait

no

no

i have idea

eh?

eeeeeeh?

thoughts?

[silent crest]

@narrow magnetidk if you would like the idea of adding joker face to my thunder

[narrow magnet]

no im using your thing for a different joker

doing it rn

but

gotta eat so

progress wont be shared for a bit

[jovial tendon]

alright imma do the art now

[silent crest]

@jovial tendoni know you didnt ask but if want any help feel free to ask

[jovial tendon]

of course!

thank you

[narrow magnet]

thunder

using @silent crest 's art; thank you sm for that

:D

[silent crest]

dont worry

feel happy to help

[narrow magnet]

ok

release goals

3 jokers

Shocked Joker

Thunder

Fork

10 consumables

nine spark; one spectral

[jovial tendon]

@narrow magnet

popped the fuck off with this one

[narrow magnet]

popped off 👍

amazing :D

[silent crest]

@narrow magneti wanted to ask if want me to do something else

[narrow magnet]

no; should be fine atleast for today

thank you so much for your help

:D

[narrow magnet]

btw bird, will you have the supercharge lighting done in a bit

no pressure

[jovial tendon]

?

OH RIGHT

[narrow magnet]

ill be off for the night tho

send it in dms

so i see it easier

[rough cargo]

Thats so good

I like ur mod

[dreamy totem]

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