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Thank you We Strvn for the pictures of the cards!
FOUR SOULS "When Javon approached me about doing a Binding of Isaac "board game", I initially scoffed at the idea. How could anyone do the game justice in a physical format? But the seed was planted and challenge proposed. If I were to do a physical version of Isaac, what would it look like, and how would it play? A number of months later, when I was sick with the Flu and very bored, the idea of an Isaac card game with a push your luck dice mechanic started to form. Just a few hours later, I was playing an extremely crude version of Four Souls with strips of card stock paper with my wife Danielle... and it was fun! Within 2 days, I had a fully functional prototype for the game. I called up Javon to see if the offer was still on the table. Literally days later, he was playing the game in person and asked if I was ready to start a Kickstarter for it. The rest is history." THE LEGEND OF BUM-BO "The Legend of Bum-bo is a prequel to the Binding of Isaac and is a randomly generated reconstruction of a match 3 game with deck builder elements. Bum-bo has you taking on the role of Isaac's imaginary friend Bum-bo on his quest to find his coin! Spoiler: not many realized this but as you progress deeper into Bum-bo, the fourth wall breaks and you discover the whole game is being played out inside a cardboard box in Isaac's room! As you then dive even deeper still, you start to unlock more secrets about Isaac's father that fill in many of the main game's gaps. In a lot of ways, this aspect of Isaac's story was made to paint a better picture of who Isaac's dad was, before the same was done for Isaac's mom in Repentance." REPENTANCE "Around the release of Afterbirth+, I started to notice people talking about this mod called Antibirth, a huge project by a small team of devs lead by Vinh T, or Kilburn as he was known online. Antibirth was jaw-dropping. The design, polish, and understanding of the games' core mechanics meant it did not feel like a mod, instead feeling professionally done. Soon after playing the mod for myself, I reached out to Vinh via email and asked if he wanted to work with me on the final booster packs for Afterbirth+. We worked very well together, and it was clear he knew the game inside and out, just as well - not better - than I did. Halfway into the development of the Forgotten, I asked Vinh what he thought about making Antibirth official and merging it with some ideas I had been saving for Isaac 2. He said yes, and the development of the Repentance expansion began." ISAAC ONLINE "During development of Repentance, we dabbled around with a very early prototype of an online co-op mode for Isaac. It was basic and did work, but not well enough to actually release to the public. For Rebirth's 10th anniversary, we decided what better way to celebrate than bringing back that idea and making it official! I always dreamed of being able to play Isaac with friends online, but the idea of Isaac online having achievable goal markers seemed way too good to pass up, especially the idea of killing your friends in a battle to the death at the end of a run!"
December 16, 2024 at 6:36 PM
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