I would be extremely unqualified to go into more detail about the many varying interpretations of this story, but the one that resonated with Edmund McMillen was this at some point, your parents may hear a voice commanding them to murder you for no reason, which they may well obey. An angel of the Lord intervenes to tell Abraham that now that he has proven that he fears God, he no longer needs to commit the foul deed and asks Abraham to sacrifice a nearby ram instead. Abraham obeys and takes an unknowing Isaac on a trip up a mountain, where he constructs an altar, binds his son, and prepares to kill him. The Binding of Isaac – the bible story, not the game – takes place in Chapter 22 of Genesis, in which God commands Abraham to sacrifice his only son, Isaac, for no stated reason. For the name, he chose a story from the bible which represented the mixed feelings he had about his own religious upbringing the Binding of Isaac.
Teaming up with Florian Himsl, a programmer who had previously worked with Edmund on Triachnid and Coil, and later Danny Baranowsky, who had composed the music to Super Meat Boy, Edmund focused on what had started as a week-long game jam project with Florian a roguelike featuring procedurally generated dungeons inspired by The Legend of Zelda.
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With the financial success of Super Meat Boy, Edmund was free to spend time on more risky ventures that he didn’t expect to get as much attention, but would be more personally fulfilling.
Irreverent and undeniably talented, he quickly made a name for himself with several titles that still attract attention today Gish, Triachnid, Coil, Aether, and a small game named Meat Boy that quickly turned into the much larger project, Super Meat Boy, put together by Edmund and Tommy Refenes, which remains one of the most critically and commercially successful indie games to date. He began his career in 2001, releasing crude games on Newgrounds laden with toilet humor and dead baby comedy – out of the first fifteen games he released, ten of them literally had the words ‘dead baby’ in the title. Edmund McMillen is arguably the quintessential indie developer.
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