Edmund McMillen

Edmund McMillen was the designer and artist behind Team Meat, before leaving around 2014-2015. He worked on games such as Super Meat Boy, The Binding of Isaac, Gish & over 25 flash games over the past 10 years.

School Life[]

In third grade, Edmund was recommended for Psychologic therapy, due to his love of drawing monsters.

An ancedote Edmund would often tell in interviews is that in high school, (along with a very supportive art teacher) as an art project, he drew a hand coming out of a vagina. Teachers where shocked and asked the art teacher to take it down, But the art teacher said he "Couldn't find the key" to open the cabinet.

Art Style[]

Edmund has a unique scary, bold art style. This is clearly shown in Gish and The Binding of Isaac.

In a Formspring post, somebody compared his art style to that of Kyle Gaibbler, The artist behind 2DBoy. In response, he said:

"I didn't do the art for World Of Goo, that was Kyle Gaibbler's art, not mine. Though we both take inspiration from Tim Burton."

Flash games[]

In the past ten years, Edmund has worked with programmers such as Tyler Glail, Florian Himsl, And 1 game with Tommy Refenes, Team Meats' current coder.

Triachnid
Meat Boy
Aether
Cerius Peashy
Carious Wetling & Carious Wetling II
Spewer
Grey Matter
Host
Guppy (Prototype)
Coil
Time Fcuk

Official Releases[]

Games that he released officially through a buying system, E.g Steam or XBLA.

Gish
Super Meat Boy
The Binding of Isaac

Philosophy[]

Edmund says the reason for Super Meat Boy's insane difficulty is because "Without pain there is no reward" as in if you don't struggle to do something, you don't feel as good when you do/complete it.

Links[]

http://edmundmcmillen.blogspot.com - Ed's development blog

http://edmundm.com - His website

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_McMillen - Information on Wikipedia