"When people ask what would you do to improve the game, there's a bunch of stuff that I would do. Ending the updates now is as much about putting a formal follow-up into perspective as anything else. The additions contained by Booster Packs were starting to make their way uncomfortably close to his list of ideas for a sequel. The free updates were becoming more and more elaborate, and the question of a sequel has been looming. I guess I do my best."Īt this stage, McMillen is very aware of the crossroads facing Isaac. I'm not going to pretend that I do, but I try. "I feel like he understands me in a way that I'm not completely aware of yet." Truong is considerably more modest: " don't always get what the game is supposed to be like.
"There's a lot of great modders out there, but he's on a whole other level," McMillen says enthusiastically. During our interview, McMillen can barely restrain himself from singing the modder's praises, going so far as to call him the best collaborator he's ever had.
It's a massive slab of new stuff, containing intuitive bosses and clever items built by Truong and his friends in their spare time. And I probably say that the first thing that I would do is strip out the story bosses Edmund McMillenĪnti-Birth is a testament to how inspirational Binding of Isaac has been. When people ask what would you do to improve the game, there's a bunch of stuff that I would do. "But we saw what that added and thought maybe we could use this as an opportunity to show what we could do." "Initially I didn't want it to be anything too big, just a few items and enemies, and then Afterbirth came out and we hadn't finished our mod yet," Truong says of Anti-Birth. The-Vinh Truong, aka '_Kilburn', now an integral Isaac team-member, began as lead designer on one of the biggest mods, Anti-Birth. The modding scene blindsided McMillen, but has since become vital to The Binding of Isaac.
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