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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. He is also known as Bluebaby on the website Newgrounds, where some of his games have been uploaded.
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". His game Aether was a 2009 IndieCade finalist and received an honourable mention.
Team Meat Has stated that there will be No Super Meat Boy sequel stating "- We feel like we did it right the 1st time."
Partial softography
- Gish
- Cereus Peashy
- Blast Miner
- Triachnid
- Cunt
- Aether
- Meat Boy
- Grey Matter
- Braid
- Spewer
- Time Fcuk
- Super Meat Boy
- Guppy
Awards
- 2005 IGF Grand Prize
- 2005 IGF Innovation in Game Design
- Game Tunnel's Game of the Year
- Destructoid's E3 game of the show award
References
- Toots (August 8, 2006). "The Delightfully Demented World of Edmund McMillen". Gay Gamer.
Edmund McMillen splashed onto the scene with his signature art style in Gish, a side-scrolling platformer with a dementedly unique style.
- ^ Road To The IGF: McMillen and Himsl's Coil, Gamasutra
- "GameSpot's Best Games of 2008: Best Original Downloadable Console Game". GameSpot. Retrieved 2008-12-25.
- "GameSpot's Best Games of 2008: Best Licensed Music". GameSpot. Retrieved 2008-12-25.
- Jenkins, David (2009-02-20). "LittleBigPlanet Dominates At AIAS Awards". Gamasutra. Retrieved 2009-02-20.
- IndieCade 2009 finalists
- "No SMB 2!".
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