BECOME A TRUE HERO!

As most of you know Afterbirth+ is 2 things, its a sizable update with new items, enemies, bosses, challenges and achievements as well as a new playable character, new final chapter and boss/ending (as well as a ton of other stuff i cant remember). Afterbirth + also includes indepth mod tools for the community to run wild with and continue to build onto isaac long after we close the book on it.

but how can we combine both of these aspects of the expansion into one mega feature of awesomeness? well a few months ago i had an idea…

what if we pulled from the mod community once a month and updated the game with the best item/challenge or other awesome feature (card, enemy, boss, etc) to turn the best aspects of popular mods into real life ingame playable/unlockable goodness!

so thats the plan, once AB+ is out and the community starts running wild with mod insanity, ill be peeking in on reddit and looking out for my favorite new additions. ill hand pick my favorite stuff, (with a little help from the fans and possibly a twitter poll or 2) toss it to the team and said content will be added to the main game officially!

this is a feature im really looking foward to, i feel like ive personally scraped the barrel when it comes to item design and feel quite depleted, but im positive that there are a ton of cool ideas out there that are so left field that they MUST be added to the main game. so once this thing releases, its time to prove your worth! COME ON DESIGNERS! MAKE IT WORK!

speaking of release, one of the most common questions these days is “when isaac!?”, now i cant say we have a set release date just yet… we are currently in testing and finalizing achievements, but are running into some minor release overlap issues with the holiday rush. what i can say is AB+ will release in the next 60 days on steam the goal has always been to release at the very end of the year and are still shooting for it but there are some things that are a bit out of our control.

once we land the release date, ill be doing a release date trailer post, which is quite awesome btw.

ill close this isaac update with a new enemy tease, “walking stony”

these guys are alts to fatties and pale fatties, they are unkillable walking stone walls that only die if you kill all other enemies in the room.

on a side note, when designing enemies with the AB+ tools, try your best to design enemy alts.. they can be totally new enemies but adding new enemies at this point is only realistic if they run as alts to existing enemies due to not being able to also design 100s of new rooms that feature said enemies, so keep that in mind when modding ;)



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LEGEND OF BUMBO! -

Bumbo is currently in a state we are both very happy with, an action puzzle rpg with random elements and an isaac theme has been a hard nut to crack but at this point we have an officially fun and very interesting game on our hands and have decided its time to start a dev blog specifically for the game.

so in the next few weeks expect an update with a link to the dev blog, we will go back in time and detail out the process start to finish, explain how the game plays, why it plays how it does and even post a ton of boring tech and art dev nonsense no one will care about!!!

stay tuned!



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ØUROBOROS -

this game is a little beast, ive been spending a lot of time on cut scenes and visual themes.. so sadly there isn’t much new to show gameplay wise but im sure we will have some fun news to share in a month or so.



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ISAAC SHOP -

some of you may remember a time when Danielle and i had a merch shop filled to the brim with very limited edition mostly isaac themed items that would usually sell out minutes from posting them… well we reopened the shop last night around midnight, sold out of a few items and got such a huge influx of sales we had to close the shop again to make sure we could keep on on orders.

the shop will reopen in the next few days, and ill do a dedicated post about the shops remaining new content when it does.. till then be sure to follow me on twitter , i tend to give my followers a heads up before the site opens.

till then here is the link - http://edplusdanielle.bigcartel.com/



till next time fuckas!