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RJ: Your games have all been influenced by old-school SNES-style gameplay. (The bosses' stats and rooms are also chosen from a set of four.) So there’s a great chance you will never face the same set of bosses at all.
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The game features over 20 bosses, and there are only eight full levels to a play through. Aside from the 10 to 20 rooms, the game also chooses a treasure room, a boss room, a store, and a secret room (there are also four other room types that appear in the game under certain circumstances).Įverything inside these key rooms are, again, random, including what boss(es) you fight. Each time you start a game or enter a new level, the map is dynamically made.
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The 10 to 20 rooms are randomly picked from a set of 200 plus custom designed rooms (per chapter), and the items, enemies, secrets and pickups within those rooms are also randomly generated. Basically, each generated map or level consists of about 10 to 20 rooms that are randomly placed and organized. RJ: Do you have any plans to include a level or dungeon editor in The Binding of Isaac?ĮM: The game doesn't work that way at all. It's always a different game and different "character." In Isaac, you can have play sessions that last 45 minutes and end in permadeath: When you die in Isaac, that game is 100 percent over you never come back with items you had in your last play session. In SMB, you can die 20 times in a level that takes you 15 seconds to finish. The thing that makes them very different is simply the time between deaths. Isaac is hard, but it only gets harder the more you play - and the more you play, the more the game unfolds and unlocks new bosses, items, and levels. SMB was hard but popped you back into place right away…you’d die 1000s of times in a few hours. Do you think this game will be described similarly?ĮM: Yeah, I think it will be, but in a very different way. RJ: Your previous game, Super Meat Boy, was known for being difficult but fair. It sounds serious and dark, but the game isn’t a serious game at all - it's pretty light compared to the content I’ve mentioned. My wife had also recently been reading weird cases of captive women birthing and tending to their children in basements their whole lives…it all kind of bled together. This bizarre fascination these films had with child abuse and satanic cults pushed me towards biblical stories that mirrored what they were saying, and it all kind of came through in the game's story and overall theme. Also, anything viewed as pagan.Ī lot of these propaganda videos revolved around fictional satanic cults that ritualistically abused and sacrificed children to gain demonic powers (there has never been a government documented case of any of this, by the way). The biblical influence came from my obsession with Christian propaganda films of the '80s - when there was a lot of panic within the Christian Right about the satanic influence within things like music, movies, and especially role-playing games like DnD. Would you elaborate further on the game’s thematic influences?ĮM: The games story was inspired heavily from a story in the bible called the Binding of Isaac, where God asks Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac to Him to prove his devotion. RJ: In a July interview with IGN, you said that the concept for The Binding of Isaac was partially based on "Christian scare films of the '80s." The game’s title is a reference to the Bible.