Nicky's Circus [WIP]

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Full credit to @crimson laurel for all of these ideas, I am simply creating the page. This mod is hoping to contain everything listed in Nicky's document in the game, but it will take a while due to the amount of content.

OG POST: https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1317636076931907626

Nicky's Circus [WIP]

[crimson laurel]

I can post some concept art for the Jokers here

Plain Joker

Not to experienced in art so I probably won't be posting many of these

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no thats good

it owrk

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[crimson laurel]

Thanks,

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a bit low quality though

could you send it in

full quality

[crimson laurel]

I actually just used a photo editor on its image from the wiki

Sure I can send a better one

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its all fuzzy on my screen

[crimson laurel]

Is this one better?

Blank Joker

I havent made this one yet but Scared Joker is a reference to the the painting titled The Scream by Edvard Munch

[crimson laurel]

I just realized the borders were supposed to be transparent

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btw im finishing up my first sprite

rainbow joker

[crimson laurel]

Cool!

Wonder how it'd look polychrome

Heres my Orange Joker Sprite

What if it looked like this in the final game

Maybe I could touch it up a little

[crimson laurel]

Actually feel free to redesign this guy

Just please keep the top hat

Small Ideas for the designs:

The alien Joker has the world Joker written in an alien Joker

The Coffee cup has World's Best Joker written on it

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what you think

rainbow joker

[crimson laurel]

I love it!

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shouldn't it just be an orange joker

okay ill give it the top hat but

it should have the joker bottom half right

the face

and the other thing

[crimson laurel]

Yes

Thank you

Small suggestions for red and yellow joker

Red has an angry face

Yellow has a nervous face

[rapid plume]

also, ill have to put development on hold until tommorow

due to lack of time today

it being late for me

having other things to do

BUT

everything will be running smoothly on Monday

[crimson laurel]

Thats okay, I'm just thrilled that this is becoming real!

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:D

cya

for now

[queen chasm]

WHY HIM AND NOT ME! I come up with a bunch of ideas every day, but the only thing I get is a brick emoji, and there are only 50 ideas here (my zip file with all the ideas weighs 1 MB), and a mod is already being developed

Why him?

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i just dint see yours bruh im sorgy

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orange joker

[crimson laurel]

Awesome!

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Thank you, Gold

Eniglea has also volunteered to work on the art

@here is everyone okay with 2 artists being on this project?

Eniglaea has offered to do a few Jokers

[queen chasm]

https://discord.com/channels/1116389027176787968/1260039615037833278 Okay, when you're done with this, you can read it (the translation is probably pretty bad)

[crimson laurel]

@everyone I was wondering if anyone here was a programmer.

Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far

You're all amazing!

[red lion]

I don't think @everyone works but you are amazing too

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Thank you

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Robot Joker Concept

Hat is supposed to be holographic and made of lines

I hope you all have a merry christmas!

This is a spirit Joker concept art!

Fun fact: It's negative edition more closely resembles a normal joker

[crimson laurel]

Note: this joker doesn't have a mouth, that's just an effect from when I made this in MS paint

Scared Joker concept

@here should we let this be the final artwork?

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He's doing the pose from the scream painting

Purple Joker

It's not done yet

I want its hat to have polka dots

The polka dots would be lavender colored

@everyone Wild Joker!

This is probably the one I'm most pround of

The dripping paint is from the wild cards

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Receipt Joker!

Misfortune (Joker)

I'm not sure if I can use this art

I got the Nope art from Kinsie on Steam DB, I did edit the colors

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Actually I think I'll redo this one

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I have a question to anyone with experience in modding balatro:

How complex would these ideas be to implement?

New Misfortune

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Ascended Fool

This is a joker (I know it looks like a consumable)

This took me ages to make because I had to recolor the entire background from the fool

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this one looks weird

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also this using a normal font really throws me off

you could maybe do something like to do list where the first letter of everything spells out JOKER

[crimson laurel]

Admittadly the intention is to do a background like greedy joker/wrathful joker, but its made from the Nope! sprite

[umbral cove]

it could be just a bunch of losangles maybe? idk

the text is kinda overkill

[crimson laurel]

I tried using the font actual receipts are made of

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bunch of losangles right next to each other with a big NOPE! in the middle

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What did you think of the other jokers?

Most are works in progress

I feel like wild joker might be good enough to not need a rework

[umbral cove]

wild joker looks real nice

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color palette on this is off

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Alternate Receipt design

I actually googled the prices of all these items

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Whats off about it?

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the colors don't look that good together

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There based off the green joker

I litterally took the greens used and made them purple

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Scared Joker may not need a rework

I like how funny it looks

[umbral cove]

it looks funny

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I wonder if this looks too much like a consumable

I mean to be fair they have a joker in regular balatro that looks like a playing card

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Merry Christmas everyone!

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My concept art for the alien

It's 3 eyestalks are supposed to be a reference to the Joker hat

@everyone Added 2 new Jokers

Building Blocks ($10) [Rare] This Joker gains X0.01 Mult for each card played. (Currently at X1)
Bag of Chips ($6) [Uncommon] X3 Mult. -X0.01 Mult for each card played.

[crimson laurel]

@everyone Happy new year!🎊

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If anyone would like to volunteer to be the programmer for this mod let me know

[crimson laurel]

We have artists but no one has volunteered to program

[zinc igloo]

I guess I could help if need be

[crimson laurel]

Thank you @zinc igloo 👍

[zinc igloo]

some initial prep https://github.com/lshtech/NickysCircus

[crimson laurel]

Thank you!

[zinc igloo]

so Alien is likely impracticable. right now the only way I'm seeing to make it compatible with other mods and not convert tarots at the wrong time would be to basically hardcode it for every relevant joker.

[crimson laurel]

Hmm...maybe we should skip that one for now

Thank you for your help elbe

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Concept art for the zombie joker

I didn't want it to look to creepy so I settled for a relatively normal-ish zombie design

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@zinc igloo are many of these jokers impractical to code?

I have no idea because i'm not a coder

[zinc igloo]

Most look like they're probably fine. I'll let you know what I find as I go.

[zinc igloo]

so far robot, plain, rainbow, cross, spirit, and golden scissors done

[crimson laurel]

Thank you!

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Will be adding 2 new jokers to the document soon!

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Charm ($10) [Rare] Legendary Jokers can appear in the shop, costing $20 each
Unicorn ($5) [Uncommon]: Lucky cards now have a 1 in 5 chance to give 100 Chips in addition to their other effects

@everyone New jokers have been added!

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@everyone This project is still being worked on!

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@everyone This project is still alive!

There's still room for more artists and programmers!

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@everyone Is anybody still here?