seeing as the haunted tier only has 2 backers, i wanted to make it a bit more awesome.
so no in the haunted tier not only do you get to haunt me with your name on a headstone in my yard, but you also get cool stuff!!!
now all haunted pledges will also get MYSTERY BOX 2!
this crazy box of stuff thats left over in my garage is super sweet and worth every penny! this time the contents are more random, but here is what will, and may be inside it!
1 random handmade isaac figure.
1 SIGNED retail copy of the OG binding of Isaac ( with extras )
2 sets of binding of Isaac tarot cards ( 78 cards total )
10 Isaac stickers
10 random character stickers
1 Small isaac prototype figure
2-3 resin poop magnets or Isaac or Steven head key chain or magnets
2 mewgenics stickers!
4-6 bonus items ( just stuff I find around our garage, could be Isaac themed could be a drawing, could be a defective toy! Who knows but it’s a bonus!!! )
80% chance to also get a SIGNED rare retail copy of the basement collection ( with extras )
I’ll kiss, sign an draw a poop on every box! How could it get better?
Well one box will also contain a first edition signed copy of the isaac tarot deck! only 600 of these were ever made!
You know how most kickstarters do those producer credits so people can get their name on something cool and feel all neato? Well my idea is better!
Today we have added a new tier to the kickstarter that allows you to get your name on a custom headstone that will remain in my yard for as long as I’m around!
Rumor has it once your name is on a headstone your soul will be bound to wherever it’s placed… so basically by doing this you are agreeing to haunt me !!!! Spooky Huh? Well I guess technically you will only haunt me if you die before me so think of it as a race.
Here is the nitty gritty.
In the haunted tier you will get. 1. custom headstone **with whatever info you want on it, you’re full name ( or whatever name you go by ) and some bonus text like “why did I back this tier? “ placed in my yard for all to see.
2. A picture of your head stone with me next to it looking emotional ( I will choose what emotion at random )
3. A picture of the full grave yard ( all headstones together )
4. A custom made hand drawn card.
5. Everything else in the Mod tools tier.
Are you ready to haunt me for eternity? Or at least till I die? Or maybe there is no after life at all and this is a giant scam! Either way it’s going to fuck with my neighbors and it looks cool!
*very limited! i can only fit 10 of these in my yard!
**the place we are having make these probably wont be down with horribly offensive text, so keep that in mind.
Official Binding of Isaac Figures!
it feels amazing to finally show off these really awesome figures. as some of you know its been a personal dream of mine to have professional binding of isaac figures made, ive tried to do short run hand made ones in the past but these really take the cake.
each vinyl figure stands about 3 inches high and comes with a clear plastic base. they are all professionally manufactured and come individually packaged.
the 4 figures available are Isaac, Cain, Maggy and Judas.
these figures are exclusive to kickstarter, and you can only get them on The Hoarder tier and above. i HIGHLY recommend getting your hands on these, its really easy to bump your pledge up and The Hoarder tier also features a huge 4 player game mat (made of mouse pad like material), exclusive tshirt and a uncut sheet of monster cards straight from the printer for collectors.
you also get all the extras we have been packing into each box and the gold box version of the game with the games expansion. ( so far we are including 2 stickers, a bunch of extra cards and the digital ost for the game, but there is more to come )
i’m going to try and rapid fire basically everything that has happened in the past 10 days for the four souls kickstarter here.. so stay with me.
Day 1. the kickstarter launched at midnight, hitting 100% funding in less than an hour and a half!
we rolled out our stretch goals day one and people destroyed the basement in only a few hours, unlocking samson and blood lust!
1. 6 people adopted cats and named them guppy.
2. quite a few people made us an amazing wiki page.
3. over 60 people sent in photos of hand made isaac art
4. 50+ people sent in pics of themselves crying
5. we crushed 5k backers, easy peasy.
we descended to the caves and within a day unlocked Eve!
1. 100+ people sent in pics of isaac items found around their houses.
2. my wiki page was finally updated after years and now i look like a really cool dude!
3. well over 30 people sent in pics of their isaac tattoos and they continue to do so.
4. 21 of you sent in pictures of yourselves nude in a basement
5. we blasted past that $500k mark.
we descended to the depths and unlocked the cursed horf and shit got weird.
1. the bloat was RTed over 1.3k times #fuckthebloat!
2. 4 people cosplayed as guppy and posted pics
3. 50+ people sent in pics of their last isaac build.
4. 30+ fans posted pics of their moms with bibles on their heads
5. we got over 10K backers!
we entered a hot sticky womb, unlocked Lilith and her Incubus and the love started flowing.
1. 3 people reenacted the fight with mom’s heart and one person got mad at the suggestion of someone using a cow heart to do so!
2. well over 40 people drew pictures of me nude resulting in me losing almost 2k followers on twitter.
3. 46 people wrote poems about their moms and some were quite heart felt.
4. a ton of people posted pictures of ultra sounds with #illnamehimisaac and i think a few parents had heart attacks on facebook.
5. the kickstarter currently has over 8.3k RTs and growing!
we then dropped down into sheol and became satanists! unlocking a devil deal in the process.
1. 32 fans made isaac faces on windows out of post-its.
2. 200+ people posted their play time on isaac and i RTed over 50 that had 2k+ hours.
3. 12 fans interrupted people in public to ask if they have heard about our lord and savior Isaac.
4. 46 of you sent in pics worshiping satan, and then the church of Satan got pissy with me on twitter.
5. we exceeded $1million in funding!
we went deeper! doing really weird shit in the dark, running into and unlocking some kinda chest?
1. 20+ people posted video of them beating the basement blindfolded with the help of a friend.
2. 125 of you sent in pictures of fat brown guys with glasses and facial hair and we called it a day.
3. 9 fans cosplayed as isaac in public, one went as far as to advertise for the KS at a con !
4. 70+ people sent me black images, and some sent disturbingly graphic pictures of themselves pooping on the potty.
5. 10+ popular streamers talked about the card game live!
we then floated upward toward the light! unlocking The Soul of Guppy!
1. Northernlion jumped on stream right after this was posted and said his catch phrase 12 times, then went offline. also a bunch of you actually sent in videos of you making eggs speak!
3. this super cool semi transparent stained glass sticker! ( also included in all game boxes )
4. we spoiled tons of new cool cards!
and there is soooo much ahead of us if this thing continues to spread around. so keep spreading the word! THEFOURSOULS.COM
PS: please check my twitter if you wanna see actual videos and pics of the challenges described above. i wanted to do a collage of stuff but i just don’t have much time :\
the mystery box?!
there was once a couple that ran their own shop, they would sell very limited run hand made binding of isaac figures for high prices, and signed rare retail copies of video games. their shop was booming, but the work it took keeping up with shipping these damn things almost killed them.. and once they had a baby the shop was gone forever… but what became of the few extra items they had in their garage?? well legend has it the remaining items were all split among 20 very special and magical boxes all kissed and signed by a mystical “creator”.
the mystery box is the current “ultra tier” for our kickstarter campaign, and for super fans with $$$s only!
here is what it contains:
2 random very limited edition Isaac themed hand made figures ( possible figures you can get are isaac, eve, wrath, guppy, satan, XL gurdy, gemini, lust, blue baby and the keeper )
1 SIGNED rare retail copy of the basement collection ( with extras )
1 SIGNED retail copy of the OG binding of Isaac ( with extras )
1 set of binding of Isaac tarot cards ( 78 cards total )
5 Isaac stickers
5 random character stickers
2 random tarot card stickers
1 Small isaac prototype figure
2-3 resin poop magnets
1 Isaac or Steven head key chain or magnet
2 mewgenics stickers!
2-5 bonus items ( just stuff I find around our garage, could be Isaac themed could be a drawing, could be a defective toy! Who knows but it’s a bonus!!! )
I’ll kiss, sign an draw a question mark on every box! How could it get better?
Well one box will also contain my personal keeper prototype from the Isaac arg!
this was actually the first one of these i made, but i misspelled isaac on his back so i had to make another… but this was the original! a few boxes will also contain extra copies of the missing poster that was also a part of the arg.
After months of secret development, i can finally announce that the binding of isaac is getting a card game! and its great (i swear).
check out our kickstarter and help spread the word, i really loved designing this game and its amazing to finally get to work along side my wife, friends, and fans of Isaac to make it a reality.
GO TO THE KICKSTARTER PAGE NOW FOR ALL THE INFO!
xoxo
The Forgotten Booster!
The final booster is now live!
this booster features a large number of little bits and pieces and a few big chunks if you dig around a bit… but i wont spoil the fun for anyone here.
here is a short list that features no spoilers.
8 new mod items: (fixed up and retuned by @AdriangGray)
literally 100s of fixes and improvements meticulously implemented by ( Vinh
@FixItVinh ) full list HERE
Vinh and myself really tried to add some extra special things to this booster. be sure to tell us what you think and ill be watching as the chaos unfolds!
till next time!
-Edmund
PS: booster 4 and 5 are being ported to console. im not sure when they will release but they will! stay tuned
A New Years QA!
Q: Are you a part of Team Meat?
A: As Team Meat stated in a recent interview, I am no longer part of the team.
Q: Are you working on super meat boy forever or anything meat boy related?
A: Tommy and I are now working independently. Meat Boy will always be special to me and nothing can take away how personal the characters i made are to me and how proud i am of what was created back in 2009. I wish the team all the luck and I’m very interested to see what amazing things they do with the IP.
Q: I’ve been emailing you but i don’t get a response, did your contact email change?
A: If you are trying to contact me using Edmund@supermeatboy.com please change the URL to EdmundM.com and it will definitely get to me. you can also easily get a hold of me via my twitter @EdmundMcMillen.
Q: What about Mewgenics?
A: Oh Mewgenics… for those that dont know, Mewgenics was that cat game i worked on years ago that never saw the light of day… here is a little blast from the past to jog your memory.
welllll Tyler and I are currently prototyping some stuff for it and if all goes well I’m 99% sure that little monster will once again become my obsession. Mewgenics was always my oddball dream project and probably the game I’m questioned about the most these days. Mewgenics is being remade from the ground up so don’t expect to see much for a year or two.
Who am I kidding I’ll probably start teasing the first beta images once things get moving along…
MEWGENICS LIVES
Q: What are you currently working on?
A: I’m currently working on a turn based, puzzle, rogueish game called The Legend of Bum-bo with James Id. we are at the tail end of dev on it and hope to release it on steam, iOS via “The Label” and Switch this year. Expect a trailer and more dev blog goodness in the coming months.
The game is a mix of Puzzle Quest and The Binding of isaac, with a tactics spin, and is technically a prequel to the binding of Isaac…
Q: The End is Nigh seemed like it came out of nowhere? why did you decide to make it and why keep it secret till its release?
A: The End is Nigh is probably my most personal project to date, it spawned from a very difficult time in my life where i questioned the point of continuing to make games and if my heart was really in it anymore. it was simply something i really needed to do in order to find myself again and in the end its the one thing that kept me from retiring.
working on that game with Tyler was amazingly cathartic and it became a giant personal achievement.
Tyler and i didn’t talk much about the games development publicly because we weren’t sure it was going to actually see the light of day. I’ve started many projects that have become stone walled by outside sources or just vapor ware and i didn’t want to get anyone’s hopes up (including mine) with this one.. so we just kept our mouths shut and popped out a game in 7 months. i honestly like this style of dev a lot more, but in hindsight it would have probably been a much more popular game if we had hyped it up for a few months before release.
A: Yes, Nicalis is currently porting the game to Ps4.. maybe more consoles in the future?
Q: what happened to that game you teased last year called 0uroboros?
A: 0uroboros kind of became The End is Nigh, that isn’t to say that random gen shooter is dead and gone, i just think both Tyler and i need a break from platforming games and think its best to put our time into mewgenics before revisiting the platforming genre.
Q: how’s the family?
A: doing quite well these days, my daughter PJ (Peach) just turned 2 and i’m still acclimating to this new thing called “having a life”. i definitely feel for all the parents out there who work full time with a family… this shit is hard. But Danielle and Peach are doing great and I’m honestly finally starting to become a lot less of a workaholic and it feels a pretty great.
Q: Whats next for Isaac?
A: we are currently finishing up the final free content booster for Afterbirth+ it should release in a month or so and feature a bit more content than previous ones.
Q: When will consoles get all the booster content PC has?
A: Once all the boosters release on PC, Nicalis will start porting them to console, currently the first 3 boosters are already avable though.
Q: is Afterbirth+ ever coming out on Xbox1?
A: yes, i can officially say that Afterbirth+ is in development and will release on Xbox1!
Q: i hear you are considering a sequel to the binding of Isaac, is this true?!
A: truth be told, i tend to design sequels to projects i love pretty soon after release, sometimes those turn into totally new IPs, sometimes the ideas die and other times you get diarrhea. what does this mean for Isaac 2? i have no idea, but please leave me alone.
Q: Is this really the end of Isaac? no more dlc?
A: i did say many times this was going to be the last isaac DLC.. and at the time i strongly believed it. but there seems to be something pretty cool on the horizon, its creeping up slowly.. its familiar but a bit different and its being held up by a group of people… when i squint i think i can make out a… oh sorry i gotta go, there is someone watching me in my space ship.
Booster Pack 4 You!
Welcome to today’s Booster Pack #4 Blog Update
Edmund is out at piano class tonight. I’m your guest host Tyrone Rodriguez (@tyronerodriguez).
If you’ve been following Isaac and you probably have if you’re here, you know we’ve been working on Booster Packs. Yesterday we released #4.
Booster Pack #4 (insert applause here). Exciting news, Booster Packs now have long-overdue credits for the modders. Special thanks to all the modders and Brenton for putting together the modder list for us to include in the credits. You’re all awesome and we love what you’ve put together. Now go beat the game, watch the credits and take a bow!
Aside from the credit roll update for Booster Pack #4, we included a lot of new items that have been adjusted and balanced by the team to work better in the Isaac universe. Also, we have more guest dev members in the form of FixItVinh + LethalLeather and Zami on this pack.
Booster Pack #4 has a lot of new awesome stuff from our team and yours. We want to thank you for the continued support of the game and making awesome stuff! Keep making it!
OK, so what’s new:
Death’s List
Extension Cord
Haemolacria
Lachryphagy
Schoolbag
Trisagion
We’ll be gathering names and information to update the credits again with all the new mods ASAP.
Console people, Booster Pack 1-3 are currently available for your Nintendo Switch and PS4, we’ll integrate these BP4 changes and try to add within a timely fashion. PSA: We don’t have control when Nintendo/Sony do/don’t approve them, but we’ll work as fast as we can.
for those unaware The End is Nigh is my next big project that Tyler Glaiel and i have been working on since last year in secret! its a (very challenging) sprawling adventure platformer, packed to the brim with hard to reach collectibles, mini games and tons of places to explore!
The End is Nigh is coming to Steam July 12th, Switch sometime later… and maybe more consoles? who knows!?
New Footage and music!
some of you may have missed our live at e3 stream of The End, well dont worry because this footage is much better! it shows some of chapter 1 (The End) and finishes inside the mouth of “something from the future”.
we also spoiled some music from the game, above is Overflow (chapter 3) and The Wall of Sorrow.
