#Jimbo Card Factory

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sterile blade
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PES_Camera Trailer video included PES_Blush

✏️ INTRODUCTION

This tool was created to remove the frustrations of designing custom cards, especially when it comes to the markup and box design of the card effects. There's also limited tools to create a card if you're not familiar with graphic design.

Balatro Jimbo Card Factory is the second iteration of the tool, the first iteration is still available on my itch.io page under Balatro Text Tool. Balatro Jimbo Card Factory is written in .NET and makes creating the cards more intuitive. The drawback is that, for now, this tool is only available as an executable and a web version is not planned at the moment.

🗒️ TEXTBOX GUIDE

**Name: **The name of your card. This will dynamically increase the width of the textbox if it gets too long.

**Rarity: **The rarity or type of your card. This can be Common or Rare, but also a Planet or Voucher.

Width: If you don't want dynamic scaling, you can change this number to your desired width.

Description: The effect of your card. The easiest way to create cards is checking Live Formatting and writing your effect. This will format common keywords into the correct color. After that you can uncheck Live Formatting to finetune and highlight the other keywords you want with the new color buttons.

**Live Formatting: **Automatically highlight the description keywords.

🃏 CARD GUIDE

**Image: **Click the empty rectangle to upload an image. This can be full art, or just a background.

**Interpolation: **If you uploaded pixel art, you probably want to use Nearest Neighbor. Otherwise you probably want to select Bilinear or something else to increase your card's quality.

**Corner Radius: **The smoothness of your corners.

**Border: **The size of the border, also the ability to change the border color.

Text overlay: Most often the dual JOKER displayed on the card.

**Hat, Face, Body overlay: **Make your own custom Jimbo quickly with these presets.

**Vertical offset: **Move Jimbo up or down.

**Background: **The background that will be shown during export.

**Clear: **Transparent background during export.

**Include in export: **Check this off if you only want to export the textbox.

Gradient: Little experimental thing I made. You know how Gros Michel and Four Fingers have this trippy clashing cradient texture? You can create one yourself here.

⚙️ OPTION BAR GUIDE:

**New: **Start over.

Save: Save your current card design. Cards are saved as a .jimbo extension but these are just .json in disguise.

**Load: **Load a card design.

**Exit: **Quit the application.

**Export Screenshot: **Export your textbox and optionally the card.

Open Screenshots Folder: Quickly find your exports.

🪛 MODDING GUIDE:

Rarities and overlays are taken from an image folder. If you follow the correct syntax in naming them (spr_rarity_********.png), you can add custom sprites to the project.

🐛 KNOWN BUGS:

-> The logo in the corner hovers over the textbox

-> I'm not sure how well saving/loading works at this point: Please don't design 100 cards without exporting any fully trusting you can get them all back.

-> The file size is quite high because .NET tends to be bloated if you just wing it - I could reduce it but that's a lot of work that I can't be bothered with right now. Perhaps in the future.

🖌️ CALL FOR ARTISTS:

I am far from something you might call an artist, so the overlays I was able to provide are limited. If you're an artist and you want to provide modular art or gradients for people to use, hit me up on Discord (ofmonstersandken). Disclaimer that I do not have a budget for this project and I do not ask for money either, so if you'd be interested in providing art it'd be with the same mindset I have, being "I just want to give to the community".

⬇️ DOWNLOAD HERE

https://ofmonstersandken.itch.io/balatro-jimbo-card-factory

itch.io

A card maker and textbox maker for Balatro custom cards

minor jackal
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its lit🔥

brazen crest
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Definitely looks like one great way to design your custom cards more easily

visual fractal
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both the tool and trailer goes so hard

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this is too peak

trim valley
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HOOLY PEAK

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THIS IS SO COOL

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i love when community tools are made, this is so fucking cool

sterile blade
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Hey all, thanks for the comments! Make sure to let me know (here, itch.io comments, reddit or in PM) if you come across anything weird or if there are any "Oh I wish it did that" moments. peepoGlad

trim valley
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(balatro art i've done)

mellow sorrel
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inscryption....

sterile blade
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Well I'd like to have some nice "modular art" for the tool. Inside are folders with "Hat", "Face", "Body", "Text" that you can use as a baseline - each item would add exponentially more combinations you can make. If there would be 100 of each there would already be 100 million combinations people could make art for. This way they can just make their Jimbo look like what they want it to look like and chances are high it would be unique.

Next to to that I'd also like some gradients for the gradient tool, the gradient tool allows for background like Gros Michel has (with the correct texture, of course).

I know I'm asking a lot but this is, of course, best case scenario PES_Blush If someone takes the time to send me one new hat I'd be more than happy already!

Full arts (like the one you provided, Bird) are also welcome if you're willing to gift those to the community, but they're not the main goal of the tool. Though I'd put them in a folder for people to use, maybe the art inspires an effect.

I have nothing to give but more updates to the tool if people donate art, and perhaps your name in a credits tab peepoGlad

trim valley
sterile blade
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Oh lord I see it lmao

trim valley
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i already have stupid as hell ideas btw

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cant wait

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also, dont be so pensive about asking for stuff! this community is incredibly generous and what you've already done yourself is absolutely incredible

sterile blade
trim valley
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its my job

sterile blade
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Ah that's convenient because I'm a professional software dev

trim valley
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i see that happening a lot

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what im saying is that people will help you even if you BEG THEM not to

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its just how this community is

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and no matter how much you try, you cant stop them

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they're coming

sterile blade
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In that case, call your friends and get them drawing OMEGALUL

trim valley
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AYE AYE 🫡

sterile blade
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If you need help trying out your stuff in the tool ping me, modding is available but it's not very convenient atm

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You have to manually put them in the right folder and make sure the naming is correct

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I might add upload buttons that automatically names them correctly in the future

trim valley
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oo neat

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so you can make your own parts

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oh! and we can maybe have a little thing where everyone sends their custom parts here

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little widgits that people can play with

sterile blade
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Oh yes that's what I meant with modular pieces

Well I'd like to have some nice "modular art" for the tool. Inside are folders with "Hat", "Face", "Body", "Text" that you can use as a baseline - each item would add exponentially more combinations you can make. If there would be 100 of each there would already be 100 million combinations people could make art for. This way they can just make their Jimbo look like what they want it to look like and chances are high it would be unique.

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So you'd be able to stick any face on any body with any hat with any text

trim valley
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incredible

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yeah thats what i assumed

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fucking balatro mii maker

sterile blade
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Perhaps I'd add a 5th field with "details" (like the cards in hand buffs)

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But I'd have to see what people request

trim valley
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oh thats fun

sterile blade
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Mii maker is a great way to put it, might advertise it as such lmao

trim valley
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no you should definately have a "misc" field

sterile blade
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Yeah it will probably one of the first updates

trim valley
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also, idea

sterile blade
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I was also thinking about making color sliders for the art and allow like up to 5 "channels"

trim valley
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a lot of jokers have a background thats a simple pattern with two colors

trim valley
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thats good

trim valley
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so you could maybe have a two color pattern and choose the colors for it

sterile blade
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Yeah kinda like that, and then have guidelines for art "use these 5 greys"

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Also saw a lot of these have the same

trim valley
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im just saying it might be nice to be able to do that without the gradiant, just the flat color switching

sterile blade
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Yeah might make Gradient a part of another button

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That includes flat color, 2 colors, gradient, ...

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Good ideas

trim valley
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like if i just wanted the black to be one color and the white to be other yk

sterile blade
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Uhu

trim valley
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this is such a cool project, i love it so much

sterile blade
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You see the graphic design is my passion right in there

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Have you seen the first version?

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I've been doing this for quite a while now

sterile blade
trim valley
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I LITERALLY HAVE THIS ON MY BAG

sterile blade
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Are you BE lmao

trim valley
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be?

sterile blade
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Belgium

trim valley
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oh nah

sterile blade
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It's very common here (I'm BE)

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So I thought there might've been a chance lmao

native pond
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I am not certified in anything, but I know how to do a lot. I also quite like modular systems I may be able to provide help with things here or there as well.

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oh, yea and some art I've done.

sterile blade
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All 's welcome!

native pond
native pond
sterile blade
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That's very useful tysm

vapid stump
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this seems like a very helpful tool. decided i'd like to contribute a bit, so here's a bunch of the base game's jokers split into parts. i tweaked some of them a bit so that they all fit with each other

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this is only about one-fifth of the joker spritesheet done, and out of that it only covers the classic style jokers (the ones that are just a face and no body)

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i'd like to do the rest eventually but gotta take a break for a bit

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currently covers: jimbo, all suit +mult jokers, all hand +mult jokers, chaos the clown, merry andy, golden, marble, steel

visual fractal
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y'all the goats fr

sterile blade
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Jimbo Card Factory

vapid stump
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it was meant to be a .zip

sterile blade
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Oh lmao I was doing every image file format I know and psd's and stuff lmao

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Oh wow that's good

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That's really good

vapid stump
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oh ty!

vapid stump
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next 3 rows of the joker sheet done! added blueprint, cartomancer, even steven, odd todd, scholar, mr bones, space joker, matador, showman, fortune teller, swashbuckler

sterile blade
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I'll probably have to find something else than comboboxes