a mod based around the ideas provided by @misty depot
#Khonsu - Egypt Themed Mod
prisma trout
Khonsu - Egypt Themed Mod (WIP, in need of artists)
🟢Egyptian Cat: +4 chips, +4 mult,
🟢Great Pyramids of Giza: each scored 3s and 4s adds +3 mult and +4 chips to this Joker (starts at +0 chips and +0 mult),
🟢Golden Scarab: each discarded card gives 1$,
🟢Great Sphinx: scored 2s became Stone cards,
🟢Eye of Ra: receive additional 3$ at the end of each round,
🟢Eye of Horus: [changed] Earn 1$ at the end of each round. The value is increased by 1 after each round. At the end of an Ante, 1 in 4 chance to reset.
🟢Pharaoh: each scored King permanently gains +15 chips,
🟢Crown of Upper and Lower Egypt: scored Kings became wild cards,
🟢Mummy: each scored face card gains either Lucky enhancement, Foil edition or Red Seal selected randomly
🟢Golden Sarcophagus: each scored face card gains either Gold enhancement, Holographic edition or Gold Seal selected randomly
🟢Golden mask of Tutankhamun: discarded face cards became Gold cards with Gold Seal,
🟢Hatshepsut: retrigger each scored Queen two extra times,
🟢Ra, god of Sun: each scored Ace permanently gains +15 chips,
🟢Osiris, king of gods: at the end of each round add a randomly enhanced King of random suit with random edition and random seal to the deck.,
🟢Isis, goddess of motherhood: each scored Queen permanently gains +15 chips,
🟢Horus, god of people: each played Jack gains one rank and became Queen, each played 10 gains one rank and became Jack,
🟢Thoth, god of Knowledge: each time a poker hand is played, it gains +1 level,
🟢Bastet, cat goddess: after defeating Boss Blind, generate a negative copy of Egyptian Cat,
🟢Sobek, crocodile god of Nile river: for each played Straight, Straight gains 2 levels,
🟢Anubis, god of Dead: discarded 10s, 9s, 8s, 7s, 6s and 5s became Glass cards,
🟢Set, god of Chaos: discarded cards are destroyed instead
🟢Canopic Jar with Falcon Head - Selling price of this Joker is increased by $1 for each scored Spade card. Joker is self-destroying after reaching selling price of $20
🟢Canopic Jar with Cat Monkey Head - Selling price of this Joker is increased by $1 for each scored Heart card. Joker is self-destroying after reaching selling price of $20
🟢Canopic Jar with Scarab Face of Human - Selling price of this Joker is increased by $1 for each scored Diamond card. Joker is self-destroying after reaching selling price of $20
🟢Canopic Jar with Jackal Head - Selling price of this Joker is increased by $1 for each scored Club card. Joker is self-destroying after reaching selling price of $20
🔴Judgement of Anubis - At the end of each Ante, if you skipped no blinds adds to your deck four Aces of different suits. If you skipped one or two blinds - randomly destroys four cards from your deck.
🔴Scale of Maat - At the end of each Ante, if you skipped one blind, adds to your deck four Kings of the different suits, if you skipped two blinds - adds to your deck four Queens of the different suits. No effect if no blinds were skipped.
🔴Feather of Truth - At the end of each Ante, if you skipped no blinds, adds to your deck four Jacks of different suits. No effect if one or two blinds were skipped.
🔴Ammit, the Beast of Afterlife - At the end of each Ante, if you skipped one or two blinds, turns four random cards into stone cards. No effect if no blinds were skipped
and thats all
misty depot
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and thats all
Maybe one more thing is possible and needed -
🔴Papyrus voucher, makes Jokers from Khonsu mod appear in Shop more regularly
prisma trout
a mod based around the ideas provided by <@814924693483028490>
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@iron sluice can you pin this when you're available? Thank you :D
iron sluice
misty depot
<@814924693483028490>
Yes?
prisma trout
the god jokers seem a little weak
imo
some of them atleast
like Isis
pr Ra the same way
and they feel repetetive
misty depot
I thought getting +15 chips permanently will snowball to big chip numbers relatively fast. But if you think it is weak, maybe 20 or 25 chips would be enough? I'm open for your suggestions
prisma trout
I thought getting +15 chips permanently will snowball to big chip numbers relati...
well lets put them being weak aside rn
adding those 2 that already makes 3 jokers with perma chips
doing the exact same thing jst for different cards
misty depot
It's not a bug, it's a feature 🙂 I like when there are sets of Jokers thematically linked to each other. Usually in vanilla Balatro those are sets of four for each suit (Hearts, Diamonds, Spades and Clubs) and I have one set of this kind (four Canopic Jars), but I thought having Ra, Isis and Pharaoh doing the same thing for Aces, Kings and Queens is also cool.
I think having three Jokers for three most powerful cards is fine. It's not like there are 13 different Jokers for each rank, right?
misty depot
The last four Jokers are also a thematically linked set.
The myth goes: after the person is died, they are facing Anubis, god of dead. Anubis puts this person's soul and the Feather of Truth on the Scale(s) of Maat. If said person had no sins and lived a good life, their soul is light and weight as much as Feather of Truth. In this case, they can go to happy afterlife in Anubis's kingdom. But if they were a bad person, who have sins - their soul overweight the Feather of Truth. In this case, they are eaten by Ammit - a beast with hippo's body, lion's mane and crocodile's head.
That's why Judgement of Anubis, Scale(s) of Maat, Feather of Truth and Ammit Jokers are doing the same thing - manipulate player's deck at the end of each Ante depending how many "sins" (skipped blinds) they have
misty depot
I made some placeholder images for all 12 of already coded and the rest of planned Jokers. Nothing crazy, just some images from internet recolored to Balatro palette. Still better than nothing in my opinion
misty depot
There are some problems with four canopic jars Jokers placeholder images. In reality, when egyptians made mummies, they put internal organs of the dead person / future mummy in the four jars with four heads of four sons of Horus - Jackal headed Duamutef, Falcon headed Qebensenuef, Monkey headed Hapi and Human headed Imsety. But when I first thought of making those four Jokers, I assumed we would have a pixel artist to draw them from scratch (and maybe we will eventually), so I switched monkey and human for more "on-theme" animals - cat and scarab.
But for placeholder images I could only use real canopic jars. So, a small changes needed for those two Jokers:
🔴Canopic Jar with Cat Monkey Head - Selling price of this Joker is increased by $1 for each scored Heart card. Joker is self-destroying after reaching selling price of $20
🔴Canopic Jar with Scarab Face of Human - Selling price of this Joker is increased by $1 for each scored Diamond card. Joker is self-destroying after reaching selling price of $20
misty depot
why are they all in 2x?
It's for demonstration on this Discord channel. I have 1x images made too
Four Canopic Jars
Judgement of Anubis quartet of Jokers
Here is the archive of images. PNG, 142x190 for large versions, 71x95 for small versions
misty depot
oh placeholders
When I initially planned this mod, I dreamed someone as talented as @calm solar would find it interesting enough to make some pixel art. But when @prisma trout agreed to make my idea into actual mod, he said he is not an artist. I am not an artist too (at least I'm good at providing ideas hopefully) but as a result we currently don't have a pixel artist at all (although @desert sail said he could help with it). So I figured out providing at least some placeholders would be fine (and serve as a references for a future pixel artist, when we will find one eventually)
misty depot
Oh, also, when I was making those placeholders images, I was made myself aware there are currently 29 Jokers planned for this mod. And I don't like that number. In Balatro each page of Joker list consist of 15 Jokers, so I would prefer a more round number of 30.
I could think of some Joker based on Cleopatra, Nefertiti, Amun, Tefnut, Nut or Geb. Although choosing only one between them seems hard.
Or I could think of Jokers based on all six of the above plus ten more Jokers (up to 45 total) based on some lesser-known egyptian deities like Renenuet, Bennu, Shezmu, Babi, Heqet, Unut, Naferet, Mafdet, Pakhet and Rem. They have heads of frog, cobra, cheetah, tigress, lioness, hare, vulture, grey heron and fish - so even if they are not as mainstream in pop culture as Ra, Horus, Anubis and Set - they are still cool stuff.
So, @prisma trout what do you think? Will you be able to code 16 more Jokers on top of already coded 12 and 17 planned?
misty depot
Placeholder for Papyrus voucher (if needed)
prisma trout
Oh, also, when I was making those placeholders images, I was made myself aware t...
Sure
onyx loom
Wait, all that current art is placeholder
prisma trout
time to re-read everything above
desert sail
When I initially planned this mod, I dreamed someone as talented as <@2089433559...
I go to school but I am on infinite hiatus from doing work don't ask why
So that means whenever I am available or online it means that I am up for the job
well... sort of
I would love to make art for a mod that is literally just about the start
prisma trout
the development will be on hold for a while
as i want to work on my own mod currently
prisma trout
can make a few more jokers now
prisma trout
gonna work on some more jokers
prisma trout
i finished the jokers
but i cant push now
wait maybe i can
yeah i pushed
i havent tested them though
misty depot
i finished the jokers
Cool! Are you gonna use my placeholder images though? I think having them is better for both testing and showing future pixel artist the concept we have.
prisma trout
Uh yeah when i have wifi i can add them
misty depot
Uh yeah when i have wifi i can add them
Okay.
I was thinking about sixteen more jokers I mentioned last time, now I know the project isn't dead I'll go work on placeholder images for them too
misty depot
Okay, don't worry, I'm not judging. I'm actually very thankful - without you all this egyptian stuff for Balatro would probably still been just a bunch of ideas in my head
prisma trout
No worries 👍
misty depot
No worries 👍
Here are the list of new Jokers (and 2 new enhancements), what do you think? Is this doable? Need some nerfs/buffs?
🔴 Cleopatra - after defeating a Boss Blind, create a copies of ALL Kings in your deck, including any enhancements, editions and seals
🔴 Nefertiti - after defeating a Boss Blind, create a copies of ALL Queens in your deck, including any enhancements, editions and seals
🔴 Amun, god of creation - generated a random tag after each blind even if you don't skip it
🔴 Tefnut, goddess of seasons - each scored card is changing its suit before going into discard pile (each scored Heart card became a Diamond card, each scored Diamond card became a Spade card, each scored Spade card became Club card, each scored Club card became Heart card)
🔴 Winged card enhancement - this card always scores 2,5x chips, when scored has a 25% chance to remain in your hand and not be discarded
🔴 Nut, goddess of the sky - the first selected card in played hand becomes a Winged card
🔴 Scorched Sand card enhancement - this cards always scores +25 chips, when scored has a 5% chance to be destroyed instead of going into discard pile
🔴 Geb, god of earth - the first selected card in played hand becomes a Scorched Sand card
🔴 Renenutet, goddess of nourishment and the harvest - for each Ante, each scored card got Ante times chips (1x for Ante 1, 2x for Ante 2, 8x for Ante 8, 10x for Ante 10)
🔴 Bennu, god of Rebirth - when you sell other Jokers, you have 15% chance of both getting the money and still keep "sold" Joker
🔴 Shezmu , god of blood and wine - each scored red card (Heard and Diamond suit) randomly gets Foil, Holographic or Polychrome edition
🔴 Babi, god of verility - each King and Jack is retriggered two more additional times
🔴 Heqet, goddess of fertility - each Queen is retriggered four additional times [better Hatshepsut]
🔴 Unut, goddess of new birth - when you defeat a Small Blind, all [up to five] cards in winning hand turns into Aces
🔴 Taweret, goddess of childbirth - when you defeat a Big Blind, all [up to five] cards in winning hand turns into Aces
🔴 Mafdet, protector goddess - prevents your Glass cards from ever being destroyed
🔴 Pakhet, god of war - each turn destroys a card of smallest rank in your deck [starting with one of the 2s, then when not a single 2 left is one of the 3s...]
🔴 Rem, god of tears - usually does nothing. But if played alongside with Ra , god of Sun, then each scored Ace permanently gains 30 chips instead of 15
prisma trout
Also i did not make a new rarity for the gods
I put them in rare, since it felt like they were weaker than legendaries
misty depot
Here are the list of new Jokers (and 2 new enhancements), what do you think? Is ...
Also, remember - some Jokers are parts of the set, so it makes sense for them to do the similar things.
Both Cleopatra and Nefertiti are a famous female pharaohs, but Cleopatra more famous for her affairs and relationship with lovers like Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, while Nefertiti more famous for her beauty. So Cleopatra helps Kings, Nefertiti helps Queens.
Nut and Geb are also linked, so it makes sense for both of them to get their signature enhancement, but sky is greater and more powerful than earth, and Winged cards are more powerful than Scorched Sand cards.
Babi and Heqet are doing the same because verility and fertility are two sides of one thing, but there are two male cards and only one female card in the deck, so Heqet's effect must be more powerful. Plus Hatshepsut (the first female Pharaoh known to history) is already doing the same, so Heqet is 4 times instead of 2
Lastly, both Unut and Taweret are related to birth, so I gave them similar effects too
misty depot
Cleopatra and Nefertiti placeholders
Enhancements placeholders
Four of new gods placeholders. Nut is impossible to make in the style of legendaries
Nine to go
Updated archive with small versions of the placeholders included
misty depot
@prisma trout I have a problem.
Both Tefnut (Goddess of Seasons) and Pakhet (Goddess of War) are portrayed as a woman with lioness' head. On top of that, Mafdet (Protector Goddess) is portrayed as woman with cheetah's head. I thought the headwear would be enough to differentiate between them, but when I started to make placeholder images - no, they are look way too similar to each other. At least Tefnut and Pakhet are.
So, small change of plans - let's scrap the Tefnut altogether, and I'll choose some other egyptian god to get to 45 overall Jokers
prisma trout
oki
misty depot
I was torn between Khepri (god of morning with Scarab head) and Apesh (god of night with turtle head) but I think Apesh is better because he could be almost ideal counterpart for Shezmu
🔴 Apesh, god of night - each scored black card (Club and Spade suit) randomly gets Foil, Holographic or Polychrome edition
The rest of placeholder images are ready
Updated archive
onyx loom
fuck it imma do the art
gonna start condesing them all into a single file
onyx loom
making a initial sketch, ra and sobek are doubled bc idk witch ones better
misty depot
making a initial sketch, ra and sobek are doubled bc idk witch ones better
Thanks 🙂 I can't judge your skills during sketch stage, but I'm super grateful of you for doing it!
I'm happy
@prisma trout we've got a true artist!
prisma trout
🔥🔥
onyx loom
Thanks 🙂 I can't judge your skills during sketch stage, but I'm super grateful ...
When i get home i can show some finished ones
Getting out of work rn
onyx loom
onyx loom
update on the art (sketch phase)
-> moved nut to the bottom to realign all gods
-> changed the canopy jars, eagle has a leaf bottom, baboon has a anatomical heart, jackal made to resemble an acorn, and human to resemble a bell (all referencing alternate suits of card games exept anatomical heart)
-> gonna redo judgement of anubis, because the scale will be represented on scale of ma'at
-> did sketch for
- cat
- pharaoh
- crown of united egypt
- mummy
- sarcophagus
- scale of ma'at
- take 2 and 3 on renenutet
anyway, witch version of renenutet is the better one?
misty depot
anyway, witch version of renenutet is the better one?
I like middle one the most.
Right one is closest to canon interpretation, which is what I was going for my placeholder images, but final art can have more artistic freedom 🙂
onyx loom
I like middle one the most.
Right one is closest to canon interpretation, whic...
Thanks :D
Also one question, would you rather have the "legendary" style jokers have the legendary background or have a normal background, i dont know what their rarities are suposed to be so idk
prisma trout
everyting is up on the github rn
atleast the ones completed
you could check the rarities there
misty depot
Thanks :D
Also one question, would you rather have the "legendary" style jokers ...
For the gods cards regardless of their rarity I'd prefer something a-la what I did for placeholder images - heads hovering on the front like with legendary Jokers in vanilla Balatro, while the background is vaguely egyptian (I used a picture of wall with egyptian hyeroglyphs) and a papyrus scroll with their name.
At least it's what I was imagining them to look like in my head
onyx loom
oops, got pc and life problems taking aways my only program to draw // free time respectivelly, heres the aseprite backup of all cards, i cant work on it anymore sorry yall