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Edmund McMillen
Known forVideo games

Edmund McMillen is an American video game designer, working mostly in Adobe Flash, notable for his unique visual style and innovative gameplay. His most notable games include Meat Boy and its sequel Super Meat Boy, the award-winning Aether and his work with Jonathan Blow on the award-winning Braid.

His game Coil was nominated for the Innovation Award at the 2009 Independent Games Festival. McMillen was the character artist and animator on Braid, which won the Innovation Award at the 2006 Independent Games Festival (prior to its release), and went on to win a host of awards post-release in 2008 including Gamespot's "Best Platformer"", and "Best Original Downloadable Console Game"", and the 12th Annual Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Awards "Casual Game of the Year"..

Partial softography

Awards

  • 2005 IGF Grand Prize
  • 2005 IGF Innovation in Game Design
  • Game Tunnel's Game of the Year

References

  1. ^ Road To The IGF: McMillen and Himsl's Coil, Gamasutra
  2. "GameSpot's Best Games of 2008: Best Original Downloadable Console Game". GameSpot. Retrieved 2008-12-25.
  3. "GameSpot's Best Games of 2008: Best Licensed Music". GameSpot. Retrieved 2008-12-25.
  4. Jenkins, David (2009-02-20). "LittleBigPlanet Dominates At AIAS Awards". Gamasutra. Retrieved 2009-02-20.

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