The creator of "The Joker" does not play the pigeon game for two years to avoid unintentional reference

2025-03-09 21:46:41|Myriagame |source：minecraft skins

The creator of The Joker Card revealed new details about the development of the popular indie card game, including his abandonment of other meat pigeon games for more than two years in order to avoid subconsciously drawing on the creativity of other games.

LocalThunk, the man who transformed from an IT worker in Canada to an independent gaming master, posted a long timeline record of the development history of The Joker Card on his blog today.It contains his profound insights into design decisions while working on this project, as well as records of his personal life and health over the past three years.

In December 2021, after starting the prototype of "The Joker", LocalThunk said he "very consciously tried not to play any meat pigeon games from now on."

LocalThunk continued: "I want to make it very clear here, it's not because I think doing so will make Joker a better game, but because making games is my hobby, and posting games and making money from them is not my purpose. So, naively exploring the design of meat pigeon games (especially the design of deck building games, because I've never played them before) is a fun for me.

"I want to make mistakes, I want to reinvent the wheels, I don't want to draw on the proven and mature designs in existing games. Doing that might make the game more compact, but it would go against my original intention of loving making games."

He seemed to keep up with this promise until May 2023, LocalThunk wrote:

"I went to Killing Spire and played it for the first time. Oh my god. This is a good game.

"I did this because I had some problems with the implementation of the controller and I wanted to see how they handled the controller input of the card game, but in the end I was obsessed with it. Thankfully, I didn't play it until now because I'd definitely copy their amazing design (intentionally or unintentionally).

The full development timeline is long, but it's well worth reading for anyone who has played Joker and is interested in when various features in the game will be added (the game was named Joker for a long time).

The basic "Shares X-multiple" scoring system of "Joker" has existed since the earliest stages of the game - it was called "Big Cheat" at that time, and it was in 2021.However, it was not until the end of 2023 that the decision to add up to 150 clown cards to the game was finally settled.

Also at the end of 2023, LocalThunk mentioned that his health has been problematic due to the increasing attention of "The Joker" and his investment in development.

"The Joker" was originally just a game project that LocalThunk hopes to share with friends, or may be released on Steam just to have something to show to future employers.As of January 2025, the sales of this game have reached 5 million copies.

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