Wake Up Honey, They Made Mahjong Balatro [Aotenjo] 

For people wondering about the terminology used, the game is mixing the English versions of Chinese Classical Mahjong terminology, like "pung", "chow", "kong", and "fan", with Riichi Mahjong terms like "yaku" and "aotenjo".

Rotational symmetry means that if you turned it 180 it would be the same. So circles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 9, bamboos 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9, and the white dragon.

WOAH, THE COOKED RICE…I gotta talk about that. This was likely inspired by a silly Chinese mahjong movie where a character cheats by sticking a grain of cooked rice over a tile to hide a pinzu. In the college Mahjong club we watched this scene on a projector and lost our minds laughing. Likely the dev has seen this too.

Really channeling the NL energy, both good and non-reading. Definitely liked the video!

i had to double take when i saw the second upload today - lucky!! 🤸🏽‍♀️

I think there are little symbols next to your "play" and "skip" buttons that show how many hands you have left

i would love to watch you play more of this! p.s. the 3 dots between the play and skip button is the number of plays you have

HOOOOOLY MAHJONGLATRO IS REAL! Id be super down to watch more of this

Agate is type of quartz if you are curious!

1. I am so getting this game. 2. I'm also getting Mahjong Soul finally. 3. yu song what have you done im obsessed with mahjong now what the heck

I dont know much about Chinese Mahjong but I wonder if the term "Chow" and "Pung" is related to the "Chi" and "Pon" we have in Riichi mahjong since they sound similar

Played this yesterday after a friend showed it to me. As a mahjong and balatro fan, I find the game really fun--I think it needs a few more tweaks especially with the UI and translation, but I'm very excited for the full release.

thank you for showing me aotenjo you saucy little fellow

There's now an option to change all the names to use Japanese Yakus as well in the demo. Its easier to read "Pinfu Tanyao" than "All Sequences All Simples"

SO EXCITED to see you playing this!

Would definitely enjoy more of this game, I've been waiting for someone to make a mahjong roguelite for a while now it's quite exciting.

Gosh, this game seems pretty cool, thanks for giving it a whirl! :D Was fun to see you rack up some big points and realize how cool the gadgets can be~

I know nothing about mahjong but this game looks like a lot of fun so I'd definitely watch more of it lol

Played a bit myself, looked very interesting, and enjoyed how each play chains together. I was able to get to e10 and 3rd loop on my second run with wind and dragon tiles. It was pretty sweet.

I dont understand but I like your energy! Keep it up!

This was actually so fun to watch! Hope you continue!!

Awesome video, awesome game!! Also, one of the alternate decks that isn't availble yet has "Japanese" listed for the patterns; riichi based gamemode in a future version??

So happy to see you checking this game out, I never wishlisted a game so fast

That bamboo was getting juiced and squeezed.

2 uploads in 1 day? Absolutely amazing

18:50 The Treacherous Tse Il Men

Wow quick thinking and yap god. Great streamer mentality!

hands unlock as you play them for that run, which is why sometimes you dont want to skip. also there seems to be the other decks for different kinds of mahjong, like theres a japanese deck

been playing this demo for a few days and I'm excited for the full release

I literally just thought of this idea yesterday for an upcoming game jam. Oh well someone beat me to it

came for balatro, stayed for the mahjon

I'll probably love it, but I wonder how many people there are that fall in the Venn diagram of mahjong players, Balatro players, and English speakers? Aotenjo seems like it's Japanese for Blue Sky, so I would guess it's supposed to be pronounced with Japanese pronunciation. Ow - ten - joh. Ay - oh - ten - ho is a pretty wild stab at the pronunciation. I can see why you would want to pronounce tenjo as tenhou though, since that's a mahjong term, but it would require this to be doing, like, Spanish pronunciation. Haha.

I'm loving the demo so far, already got a run where I could just spam 13 orphans every round.

As for the game's name, it's probably pronounced "ow-ten-jō" (like "ow, that hurt", and with the o lengthened at the end). It's Japanese and I would assume it's using these kanji, meaning skyrocketing (of prices), having no limit, or "the sky's the limit" → 青天井 You could also make it a play on words, and say 青点所 (pronounced similarly, but with just a short o sound at the end), and it would mean blue (or maybe green, depending on context) point/score place. 😄 I'm American, but I've been studying Japanese for almost four years now, so the game's name immediately caught my attention. I knew I had to leave a comment explaining it. 😊

Finally I can feed my crippling mahjong addiction, the Kamurochou parlors were not enough anymore

As someone that loves balatro, and the closest mahjong contact i got was from the Microsoft one, lots of concepts on this video are kinda "alien" to me, but i am loving it

In terms of tiles looking similar I also kept getting 6 and 7 dot tiles mistaken for each other. They could probably do with differentiating a little.

game looks very fun, would love to see more. especially when it fully releases and is cleaned up a bit

yu_song you should also try ultimahjong! its more about constructing full hands immediately instead of melds and you don't have to play a pair every turn!

Also the turn counter was between the play and skip buttons. Can't remember if the tutorial explained it or not.

Good energy, reminds me of chubbyemu back when he played games on his channel.

Hoping the metrics on this go crazy! Love to see more branching content.

We need more of this!!

Also a game you like in rogue style, have you tried PokeRogue?

as a yakuza fan, i have an intense fear of mahjong, so AAAAAAAAAA

> Aaah, reading the tutorial explains the tutorial Someone has studied in the Tolarian Community College.

Goated video 🙏

If we've got Mahjong Balatro, we're prob gonna get Chess or Shogi Balatro

Would love to see more

A triple Yu Song Monday, certainly wouldn't mind if this wasn't just a one off.

Wow its literally my two favourite things combined

very swag was engaged the whole vid tbh

As someone who speaks Japanese, the way you said the name kind of just makes me cry inside T_T Just a little bit of some fun facts, since I wanna nerd out real quick as it seems very Japanese inspired, and the name is very Japanese (the name meaning Blue Sky, I believe, but also can mean like the skyrocketing of prices; aka having no limit, with the sky being the limit). I don't mean to mansplain, so I'll leave this if you want, I won't feel bad if you don't use it but if you were wondering the pronunciation is "Ah (is in ahhh I see I see) oh (as in oh, I'm disappointed) ten (as in the number 10) joe (as in a kangaroo joey, or jo as in joke)" = "Ah oh ten joe" = Aotenjo (: 「青天井」

woahhh, did this just steal the idea from Ultimahjong? or was this first?

Absolutely love your video. it's so hilarious haha

Clicked on the video because the NL reference

thin deck daddy gaming forever

they made the game i wanted to make

this is a great game keep playing it!

Balatro spawning a new genre… Balatro-likes?

Double upload!

Have you played ultimahjong? And are you on r/mahjong? And r/mahjongsoul

I didn’t play Baltro but man they got me I’ll buy this one

I am seeing it, and it is nuts

I died multiple times watching this video xd

Praying someome mods it to remove pung and chow and replace them.

holy moly this is cool

Hi honey I'm here, thank you.

LET’S GOOOOO

Mahjomg

Call that kan yu song!

When did NL grow out hair?

liked the video but good god man take 2 seconds and think about literally anything

Another good mahjong rouge like is Ulitmahjong

This guys talks like a certain bald man that plays Balatro…

Fan and han are the same. Unlike riichi, fan doesn't have fu!

我们去赌博吧！ *不正确* 该死! *不正确* 该死！ *不正确* 该死! *不正确* 当

Where was all this hype back when Ultimahjong - another Mahjong Rougelike - dropped its demo _months_ ago? 🤔🤔🤔

major issue with this video. simple plan's first album was in 2002

Ao. Not Eyo.

seems like a cash grab copy of balatro... maybe its great but the graphic look so cheap compared to balatro

Please, whatever you do, don't tell Northernlion about this 🫨