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Chairmander @l_prod@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 17mo ago

A while ago I learned that Balatro is made in a fun game engine called #love2d, which turns out to be quite the cross-platform beast.
This of course meant I had no choice but to run it on my #linuxmobile phone running #postmarketos and #plasmamobile
Runs at a locked 60fps on my OnePlus 6T and plays really well besides needing some persuasion to accept screen rotation!
No movie magic, no translation layers, no virtual machines.

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Chairmander @l_prod@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 17mo ago

Another installment of my blog + a recap of my very first Plasma Sprint!

https://lprod.dev/blog/monthly_2025_04.html

Thanks to some studious bugfixing at the sprint I'm now finally able to daily drive Plasma Mobile longer-term.

#KDE #PlasmaMobile #LinuxMobile

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Plasma Sprint and more

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Chairmander @l_prod@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 17mo ago

Replying to

@QuadRadical@wetdry.world I didn't, that's the best part! As far as I understand it, with Löve the entire game logic is in Lua and as long as your platform has a working Löve install it will run, since it's all interpreted and not compiled. I literally *just* installed the engine ($ sudo apk add love) and then run the copied game files from my desktop ($ love Balatro.exe). Yes. Directly the Windows executable. How it exactly works under the hood? Don't ask me, black magic probably.

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Chairmander @l_prod@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 6mo ago

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@30p87 Leider sind die Android Varianten (OP6T, Pixel) mittlerweile schon... sehr dated Hardware, also auch nicht ideal (zB Akkulaufzeit/generelle availability im second hand Markt) - Trotzdem wahrscheinlich die besten Optionen. Honorable mentions: es gibt ein paar mehr Handys mit dem Snapdragon 845 Chip die ganz gut gehen, der Chip im allgemeinen ist ganz gut dran. Ich würde für genaues einfach auf das postmarketOS Wiki schauen, dort gibt es eine große Tabelle für Geräte mit supported Features.

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Chairmander @l_prod@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 15mo ago

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@seshpenguin@social.sineware.ca @espidev@fosstodon.org That's not exactly what I thought of when hoping for "modular Smartphones" :D Amazing

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Chairmander @l_prod@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 6mo ago

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@Merritt@mastodon.social I never knew I needed this but now that I do I cannot wait. Super cool stuff!

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Chairmander @l_prod@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 17mo ago

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@QuadRadical@wetdry.world Huh. So it seems. I'm not sure if this answers my questions or just brings up even more. That's wild! :D

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Chairmander @l_prod@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 17mo ago

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@QuadRadical@wetdry.world I know, right?! I was fully getting ready to somehow dissect the Windows binary to... idk... somehow extract the game logic/data from the (presumably?) bundled engine code, but it just... worked as is.

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Chairmander @l_prod@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 17mo ago

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@QuadRadical@wetdry.world Sure, desktop file is just [Desktop Entry] Exec=love /home/user/path/to/Balatro.exe Icon=/home/user/path/to/balatro.ico Name=Balatro Type=Application For the icon I'd recommend you grab your own - I extracted it with wrestool from the .exe itself but it's very low res and blurry.

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Chairmander @l_prod@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 15mo ago

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@espidev@fosstodon.org looks really nice! I once played around with bigscreen when my dad got a new TV because I despise its UI. so bloated and laggy - plasma would be a breath of fresh air there, but back then it was... very not ready. thanks for the work!

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Chairmander @l_prod@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 25mo ago

Replying to

@carlschwan@floss.social I wish the live streams were a bit better :/ do you know if there'll be better recordings after the fact?

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Chairmander @l_prod@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 6mo ago

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@molecularmusing@mastodon.gamedev.place But surely that one is a joke, right? Right??

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