1 Hour of Balatro's Background

Featuring a loop of the main theme, composed by Luis Clemente.
I generated 216,000 individual frames
75ish gigs worth.

[@L0LWTF1337]

Don't go towards the light! The light:

[@lyrics_m_sic]

Now I can sit in front of my screen with paper playing cards and pretend I'm playing Balatro

[@tzebruh]

"Hypnosis isn't real" Hypnosis:

[@white7076]

oh his beloved shaders...

[@TGirl_Dave]

need this as a wallpaper engine background

[@lanerehms24]

You cannot grasp the true form of Jimbo’s hand!

[@kornyeabroth]

listening to this while doing a college assignment hits different

[@ribclicker]

If addiction had a theme song

[@DuongNguyen-vw4fi]

i see it now Polymerization

[@bruh-ment-um]

Having it currently as my desktop wallpaper for the whole experience

[@HardWorkingOrange]

been listening to this non stop on a loop for hours

[@raptormaverick4774]

This is something you would see at the TVs section of the electronics department

[@kurosurintomasu]

amazing

[@shreyaspamaraju262]

twitch streamers gonna go wild for this

[@succd.a.n.k9114]

one time i had to get a loop of the balatro background for a project i was working on, but i didn't know how to remove the UI elements in the game itself so i just went to the official balatro website and used inspect element to remove everything except the background and recorded the browser window with OBS! if i only waited like 4 more months i could've gotten this video instead for the project... great work on making this! if i could ask, how did you do this?

[@KF-2015]

I ported the shader code to a (probably inefficient) java program (don't judge, it's one of the languages I know intimately), and just let it run, outputting 216000 PNG's to an external hard drive (I say inefficient, but it was run on the CPU, not my GPU like it is in the game, so... instead of taking a max of an hour, it took a whole day.)

[@succd.a.n.k9114]

@@KF-2015 so that's why the video looks so squeaky clean, thanks for clarifying!

[@zachgaskins3731]

I'm using this as my Yule Log video next holiday season

[@DJCerealSauce6455]

Incredibly well put together video (given how many frames needed to be mashed together). I'm working on a Balatro video right now and would love to use this background if I have your graces :)

[@KF-2015]

Of course! Just make sure to credit me (whether in the description and/or on-screen text, I leave that up to you)

[@DJCerealSauce6455]

@ Oh you KNOW I will! You'll get all the credit and then some

[@RaijinJolt]

Wonder how the background is made

[@nicky4907]

oh damn same

[@rlancs20]

It would be a Shader combining some kind of noise (perlin, simplex, voronoi, etc) to randomly create all the weird warpy stuff you see, attached to both time and red/blue colour values, with some maths to twist it into a spiral. Shaders can usually be made within the game engine, in this case the Love2D framework which Balatro was developed with, using a language based on GLSL for shaders.

[@mutantmonkey7825]

Noise

[@sansprobus7209]

Probably some wonky math visualization stuff

[@yossarian00]

the game is made with love2d. Simply going to where you installed the game, and opening the .exe with 7zip or Winrar or equivalent will let you have a looksie at the source code and find out yourself.

[@AVeryaka.]

Please make another background variety

[@KF-2015]

Which color combo do you want to see?

[@AVeryaka.]

@@KF-2015 everything 😈

[@gioguarin]

@@KF-2015orange and blue

[@KF-2015]

Well... maybe. I'm gonna need the color combos for all the boss blinds and the shop, I have a sinking feeling that I want to be exhaustive.

[@Mr.EMusic3808]

Don’t forget the celestial, arcana, and spectral pack colour schemes!

[@sandman1754]

Anyone have a gif of this? I can only use gifs on my steam deck background and this would be sick!!

[@Floppygamr]

nice bro

[@OctoMaxBR]

oh my god this is wonderful. may i ask if you could try to make the game's background *not* pixelated if possible? im too dumb to remove all of the ui and stuff to get this beautiful background ;( if so, maybe link it as a unlisted video in the description? thanks! :3

[@ReallyBored-10125]

Not possible, they'll have to remake the whole thing from scratch cause its pixelated in game

[@OctoMaxBR]

@ReallyBored-10125 ohh damn

[@fifoock2376]

Please, i beg of you... Add this to wallpaper engine!

[@KF-2015]

I would if I could!

[@swissretrogamer52]

@@KF-2015 someone already did

[@A-Nash-2025]

May I use this in future videos with credit?

[@KF-2015]

Of course!

[@danthematt]

6,666 views and 6 days ago. ... nice

[@Marc017]

😌

[@iShadowMerc]

Panasonic BluRay Ninety-Nine..

[@dr.freeman8983]

NOPE!