[Update: According to this interview with IGN, the game is influenced by the original Legend of Zelda, Satanism scares of the 1980s, and a passage from the bible about Abraham nearly sacrificing his son in order to show his dedication to God. You play as a "kid whose mum wants to kill him, and he escapes into the basement to get away from her and eventually – maybe – conquer her." Awesome.]

Almost immediately after completing Super Meat Boy, Tommy Refenes and Edmund McMillen (otherwise known as Team Meat, the two man development team behind the game) were begot with questions about what their next project would be. We're going to have to wait a little bit longer before we find out what Team Meat is up to, but for now, we can set our sets on Edmund's next non-Team Meat project -- The Binding of Isaac.

Not much is known about the game now, other than the fact that it's a roguelike, that it's based off of one of Edmund's favorite games of all time, that Danny B (the award winning composer of Canabalt and Super Meat Boy) will be handling the soundtrack (sample found here), and that the programming will be handled by Florian Himsl (programmer of Coil, Triachnid and the C word).

Legacy Comments (will be imported soon)

Tabarnaco

Spell better Edmund.

Handy

“What do dead-looking moms, sad babies, and blind African American World War 2 veterans all have in common?”

I’ve stolen from all of them?

Handy

It’s not like I’m a master thief or anything, those three types of people are just really easy to rob.

Wolfy-Boey

"What do dead-looking moms, sad babies, and blind African American World War 2 veterans all have in common?”

They all hate Handy.

rexwolf2

Did somebody say Isaac?



Wait, wrong Isaac? Oh well. There's always room for more Isaac Dian.

Scissors

Sounds good, I hope it comes to a platform I own

Jhonny Thizzlam

Im gonna help isaac kill his mother!

bricewgilbert

Awesome inspirations.

timtheterrible

This just wreaks of win.

comicretard

No 360? What's up with that? I fucking love all the flash type games. And all these Newgrounds developers rock! But hell, no 360? I guess I'll get it on Steam then.

MeanderBot

A roguelike inspired by OG Legend of Zelda? Sign me the fuck up!

Mr Andy Dixon

Sounds good to me!

Corduroy Turtle

I'm intrigued!

NeuroChems

I approve of this message. Radar blip added.

jetpackcat

This spreads wrong messages to kids it should get banned by the government.

Beyamor

the fact that it's a roguelike

I physically perked up. The tortured pretzel that is my spine nearly splintered, but frail body be damned. This is a game about a crying boy and, as a first in the history of protagonists, I can relate.

@Rex

Noir Trilby

@rexwolf2

Props for the Baccano refrence. Isaac and Miria were my two favourite characters from that show.

Chibithor

@comicretard
I recall Team Meat said they had a ton of problems with getting Super Meat Boy on the Xbox compared to Steam. I'd guess that's why.

@apoet001
lolwut

JohnGrisham

I love Team Meat and am looking forward to whatever they put out next.

Martholomule

...not interested. I'll be shocked if this makes it all the way through development, but I'll be more shocked if this get a publisher. I was hoping we wouldn't go back to "Dead Baby Dress-Up" Edmund, but it looks like he's moving in that direction. It's too bad.

FrankYorkMorgan

The binding of Isaac

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_e_xrTU58iX8/TMnq8DogRsI/AAAAAAAADYE/2HGG-RtZA8Y/s1600/Tentacle.jpg

FrankYorkMorgan

Jeez i'm afraid i don't know how to use the code for showing images.

AklashPahk

Isaac: http://isaac.auckland.ac.nz/

rfmarotti

"I found that there is an old folk song about the maltreatment of an African American World War 2 veteran called The Blinding of Issac, made famous by Woody Guthrie."

Are you joking? It's a reference to the biblical story of Abraham and Issac.
For a pop culture reference that you might have a slim chance of getting see Bob Dylan's 'Highway 61': God said to Abraham kill me a Son/Abe said God you must be puttin me on/God Said No/Abe Said What/God Said you can do what you want/but next time you see me comin you better run

Abraham had to BIND Isaac before putting him on the altar to sacrifice him. Hence the title. Points for the effort, though.

rfmarotti

"I found that there is an old folk song about the maltreatment of an African American World War 2 veteran called The Blinding of Issac, made famous by Woody Guthrie."

Are you joking? It's a reference to the biblical story of Abraham and Issac.
For a pop culture reference that you might have a slim chance of getting see Bob Dylan's 'Highway 61': God said to Abraham kill me a Son/Abe said God you must be puttin me on/God Said No/Abe Said What/God Said you can do what you want/but next time you see me comin you better run

Abraham had to BIND Isaac before putting him on the altar to sacrifice him. Hence the title. Points for the effort, though.