McMillen: Yes, so Mew-Genics was stuck in limbo for a while until I left Team Meat about 4 years ago. In terms of future projects after The Legend of Bum-bo and Binding of Isaac: Repentance, you've said you're still working on Mew-Genics with Tyler Glaiel.
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RELATED: The Binding Of Isaac Rebirth: How To Unlock All 20 Endings That voice wasn't ever around back when I just started. I try not to listen to that voice, but sometimes it steers me away from more risky ideas, and I hate that. As an artist if you play it safe and work in your comfort zone your growth is stifled and suffers, but if you take risks you risk bigger failure. But with those expectations come that tiny nervous voice inside that says, "if you take bigger risks, you may let too many people down." I want to take risks. People expect a lot more out of me, and they should. How do you feel things have changed for those making indie games now versus when you started out? You've been making indie games for a very long time, and you're one of the most recognizable indie game creators out there. I could just keep going forever with it, but I should stop now so I can work on other things. I feel like it represents me well and the themes and story are hard to put down for me. McMillen: Probably that it's the most honest and personal project I've done. You keep returning to The Binding of Isaac and that world.
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I'd never made a puzzle game like it before, and I wanted to push myself and see if I could crack the code so to speak, make something that was basically a casual design but without talking down to the player in any way, with a lot of luck-based bells and whistles. Why did you want to create a puzzle-based, deckbuilding roguelike game?Įdmund McMillen: I wanted to create a "casual" game that had tons of depth and felt like my own. RELATED: Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Datamine Reveals Starkiller Base's Dark SecretĬBR: Although it shares a lot of common themes and stylistic elements, The Legend of Bum-bo is fairly different in terms of gameplay from a lot of your biggest successes over the last decade. The game is described as a puzzle-based, deckbuilding roguelike and follows Bumbo, a familiar introduced in 2015's The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth expansion.ĬBR caught up with McMillen to talk about The Legend of Bum-bo, how his experience as an indie developer has changed over the years and Mew-Genics, his long delayed project with frequent collaborator Tyler Glaiel McMillen's newest project is The Legend of Bum-bo, which is a prequel to The Binding of Isaac. Between 2010's Super Meat Boy and 2011's The Binding of Isaac, Edmund McMillen is one of the biggest indie game developers working today, with his games having earned a lot of praise over the years.
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