"The Joker" author announced the development timeline: From addiction to shock

2025-03-08 20:10:06|Myriagame |source：minecraft skins

No matter from which angle, "The Joker" is a miracle.This is a unique small independent card game that was unveiled in 2023 and received extremely high praise when it was launched in early 2024, and even attracted some large game developers and publishers around the world to queue up to participate in the related activities of this game.

Now, a little over a year after the game was released, developer LocalThunk shared the official "The Joker Timeline", a detailed and surprisingly dramatic record that tells the birth of the game and is also very interesting to read.

The timeline began in December 2021, when LocalThunk decided to use three weeks of vacation time to "do a project".On December 20, 2021, the "CardGame" folder was created, which is the "working folder for all the "Joker Card" source code" and has never changed its name.

A month later, LocalThunk wrote: "My vacation is over, but I'm now completely immersed in it, obsessed. It's my favorite feeling in the world. When I was in college, I often stayed up until the early hours of the morning, doing weird game projects, and then greeting parents when they cook breakfast. I got back to that, and since January, I've been addicted to it."

Since then, the timeline has documented the creation of The Joker Cards and the life of LocalThunk around the game, going through a series of ups and downs: looking for publishers, YouTube bloggers and game anchors’ interest in the game has grown slowly but gradually increasing, the impact on LocalThunk’s physical and mental health, the concerns of catastrophic mistakes at the last minute, and the shock when the mistakes don’t appear.

LocalThunk wrote: "February 19 is here. The 19th is the day when the review is lifted. Playstack has done a great job of writing reviews before the game is released. I don't know what will happen, after all, it's a pretty weird game. Will the average rating be 6 or 7?

"The first important review came from PC Gamer: 91 points. When Playstack told me the news, we were on the phone and I could feel them quite shocked. I was shocked too. The rating was incredible."

The Joker timeline gives us some interesting insights on indie game development, but it also makes it very engaging to read.Even if we know the final result, we can still feel the excitement and stress rising as the story progresses.When LocalThunk wrote about the sales figures on the day of "Clown Card" released, it didn't sound like a humble one, but a real surprise: "This game was originally made for a few of my friends, but somehow all these strangers chose to buy it."

"All of these strangers," it is true: "The Joker" sold more than 5 million copies in January.

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