[WIP] Luigi's Personal Deck

[vital fox]

This is my first experience in modding a game, and I welcome all constructive advice and criticisms. I already have many ideas in mind, please check the mod page for additional details.
This couple of mods aims to bring to Balatro the feeling of that casino that's so familiar to you , one step at a time.

♣️ 💚 Luigi's Deck ♠️ ♦️

Luigi's Deck allows you to add a custom skin to your card decks, drawing inspiration from Luigi's Card Mini-Games on the Nintendo DS. You can expect:

• A complete reskin for each suit in line with the design of the playing cards used in Luigi's Mini-Games;
• Compatibility with other official and custom decks;
• Tax Evasion.

Luigi's Jokers

Luigi's Jokers allows you to replace the Jokers from the base game with Luigi, the greatest character ever conceived in human history. At the moment, it replaces six Joker cards:

• Card Sharp (62),
• Square Joker (65),
• Riff-Raff (67) ||my favourite so far ||,
• Smiley Face (104),
• Hanging-Chad (115),
• Hit the Road (130).
  ℹ️ - You'll be able to find it in the Optional files section of the files page.

💚 Link to the Mods: https://www.nexusmods.com/balatro/mods/263

[snow hound]

nexus mods my behated

[vital fox]

Yeah, I’ve noticed Nexus Mods isn’t the most beloved around here, and I’m genuinely curious why. Is it the platform itself, the policies, or something else?

[snow hound]

A few things. As a user:

• Downloading is annoying. I click download, I am then prompted to buy a premium plan, I am forced to make an account and frankly I just don't want to bother with it
• Also ads are annoying
  As a dev:
• Having to go out of my way to make zips and upload them to platforms is annoying when I can just use a tool I already use (git) and push my changes how I would anyways.
• GitHub in paritcular has some really nice dev features such as:
  • Issues for people to make bug reports
  • PR's for people to submit changes
  • Easy use to go back to old versions and see the changes between versions
  • Can use git to easily update mods with git repos
  • Super easy to share a snippet of my code for helping other people

[vital fox]

Yeah, I totally get where you’re coming from, especially from the user side: having to make an account, deal with ads, and being nudged toward premium can be annoying. But at the same time, I understand why Nexus Mods would want to encourage membership and have ads or premium plans. I never really minded it, because I figured I was supporting the modders who spent their time making something I could enjoy, even if it’s just a little bit.

From a developer’s standpoint, I appreciate your insights. Your points about GitHub: issues, pull requests, easy version tracking, are spot on. It’s definitely more streamlined for anyone comfortable with Git. Personally, I’ve leaned on Nexus Mods because I’m not too savvy with Git, and having a more guided process for uploading my stuff felt simpler. But for a more experienced dev, it absolutely makes sense to focus on a platform like GitHub. Who knows, maybe down the road I’ll dive into that approach too.

[snow hound]

For github you don't need to be familar with git to use it. They have a desktop app (which I haven't used) that handles a lot of the git sdtuff for you or you can upload your files directly on the website. They also have a proper release thing which works a bit more like a traditional mod platform where you make a new release version and upload a zip that the people can just download

[vital fox]

Yeah, that actually sounds pretty convenient. I haven’t really looked into GitHub’s release system, but it might be worth checking out at some point. Appreciate the heads-up!