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Basement Collection retail edition bundles in Indie Game: The Movie, out March 8
Team Meat's beardier half and Super Meat Boy creator Edmund McMillen is bringing out a retail version of his gaming anthology, The Basement Collection, which Merge Games is releasing on March 8. The retail bundle includes a copy of the excellent Indie Game: The Movie, which chronicled Team Meat's journey to bring Super Meat Boy to XBLA.The bundle also includes a DRM-free disc with PC, Mac, and Linux versions of The Basement Collection, a Steam code for an additional version of it, a 36-page booklet of McMillen's 'The Box' art (as featured in Indie Game: The Movie), full soundtracks for each of TBC's games, and a sure-to-get-you-noticed sticker of Steven from Time Fcuk. As for TBC, the games in it are Aether, Time Fcuk, Spewer, Meat Boy, Grey Matter, Coil, and Triachnid.The retail edition is priced at $19.99, although Merge Games is offering a variety of pre-order offers to knock assorted percentages off that.
Team Meat teases cat fighting, full Mew-Genics announcement next week
This may come as a shock to some of you, but Team Meat's mysterious, feline-focused project Mew-Genics will feature cat-on-cat combat as a heavily integral part of the game's design, Edmund McMillen has revealed. Who ever would have guessed? Team Meat's games are usually so nonviolent.Furthermore, McMillen stated that he has been "using faked graphics for all the cats" in his weekly updates about Mew-Genics, meaning that everything we've seen so far has essentially been concept art. Next week, however, Team Meat will "finally announce what this damn game is," according to its official blog.
Treat your ears to the first full song from the Mew-Genics soundtrack
The Ridiculon duo, composed in half by a former Sleepytime Gorilla Museum member, are working on Team Meat's Mew-Genics soundtrack like a cat works a ball of yarn. "The Ballad of D. Claude" is the first full track from the album, available in full and with lyrics on Bandcamp.
Super Meat Boy development for mobile paused
Developer Team Meat has stopped production of the next Super Meat Boy – the mobile version – to focus all efforts on Mew-Genics."We decided to officially pause work on the next Super Meat Boy and remake Mew-Genics outside of flash, making it our new full time project," the developer noted on its blog. Team Meat co-founder Edmund McMillen elaborated to Joystiq, "It's the new Super Meat Boy made for touch and other platforms. We pitched the idea as a re-envisioning of Super Meat Boy on iOS and people assumed it was just a remake or port, but it's actually a completely new Super Meat Boy game. But yes it's on hold til Mew-Genics is done."Mew-Genics was announced late last year and Team Meat's Edmund McMillen said it was the strangest game he's ever worked on. This is coming from the guy behind The Binding of Isaac. Hold us, we're scared.
Team Meat grants Mew-Genics Steam support, details project history
As one of Team Meat's "Caturday" teasers, the team announced Steam support for Mew-Genics. The game was previously announced for iOS.Team Meat also took a moment to discuss the history of Mew-Genics, noting that the project has been in development for 18 weeks. It started as a Ludum Dare 24 challenge under the "Evolution" theme, though Team Meat went with the "1,000 kittens" joke theme that the community attempted to vote in. After three days of development in Flash, the development duo realized it had a "monster mashup of many different game genres with an underlying theme [it] hadn't seen done in games before" on its hands. Mew-Genics then became the developer's full-time project.The team also recognizes how obscure the "Caturday" teasers have become, saying it "will only do two more Caturday teasers after this then pull back and focus on getting the game done as well as officially announcing what the game actually is and how it plays."
The sounds of Mew-Genics include guitar, drums, glock, cat fights
The music in Mew-Genics is crucial. It's also quirky, fun and from a duo named Ridiculon, one half of which, Matthias Bossi, was a member of experimental rock band Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. Bossi and John Evans slapped together a video about recording music for Mew-Genics, sharing a few details about the game in-between banging on hard surfaces and screaming about cat fights.Mew-Genics will feature a lab, a scientist, races in the sewers, kitty pageants and cat rumbles, Bossi and Evans say, and it will launch "super quick." The soundtrack includes 10 instrumentals and 10 full songs with lyrics, including one with the catchy chorus, "Cat fight, cat fight / Cat fight, cat fight / Got cat? Let's fight!" Watch the video above to get that one stuck in your head for the rest of the day.
Mew-Genics reveals the sordid world of sewer cat racing
In the underground world of sewer cats (and we do mean underground), racing is the thing to do. At least in Mew-Genics it is – today's tidbit about the game teases Frank's Cat Races, a sewer-based scheme where players will be able to test how fast their felines are and potentially find their fortunes, Team Meat writes.We met the mastermind behind the cat races, Frank, in November, and if you'll recall, he has "head problems." He also has a tail, though apparently it's not much of a problem.
Mew-Genics lets you freeze cats, is worrisome
While Team Meat has been releasing teasers for Mew-Genics over the past few months, its managed to do so without explicitly discussing how the game operates. The latest teaser image follows suit, as it divulges a "Cryo-Cube 5000" that seems to freeze cats (or food) for future use.Last week's teaser revealed the Boon County Cat Pageant that Mew-Genics players will apparently participate in. Whether frozen cats are eligible to compete is unclear.
Mew-Genics is multi-platform, one of which is iOS
Mew-Genics will be available on iOS devices, but that's not all. Well, actually, that is all for today. The weekly Mew-Genics teaser simply says that the game will launch on multiple platforms, one of which is iOS, as demonstrated by the accompanying iPad mock-up. Considering the mobile angle and Edmund McMillen's recent involvement with Sony, we're personally hoping for a Vita release as well. So far we've learned that Mew-Genics will feature a ton of cats, a rockin' soundtrack and magical trinkets such as petrified poop that lowers damage taken.
Latest Mew-Genics teaser collects trinkets with 'magic properties'
Team Meat recently released some new pieces of information about its current project, Mew-Genics. The game includes a trinket display case for all the "stuff" that players acquire, which sometimes "appear imbued with magic properties that change space and time."Collectable trinkets include food, vomit, kittens, mail and petrified poop. The petrified poop shown in the picture "slightly lowers damage taken," so at least we can assume that this game about cats (many cats) includes some kind of health and damage system. Of course, the petrified poop seen here also lowers the "poop rate" of all cats, so there are apparently some other gameplay elements happening here. There are 105 trinket types in Mew-Genics, each with semi randomly-generated properties.
Mew-Genics teaser brings the beautiful noise
It's Caturday y'all, and that means one more tidbit of information regarding Team Meat's latest project, Mew-Genics. Since all of the game's characters have been revealed, the Team Meat has begun slowly releasing tangential information about the game, with this week's reveal being "Cat Chase," the title theme."We really splurged with the soundtrack for Mew-Genics, the game will feature a full album of over 20 studio recorded songs," Team Meat's Edmund McMillen said in an official update. "We really wanted to make the games music feature extended themes of the game or small stories within each song, kind of how Katamari did it in a way, except all our songs are about cats!"The game's soundtrack/album is being composed by Matthias Bossi and Jon Evans, the former of which provided the narration for The Binding of Isaac. Here's hoping the rest of the score has the same spooky, Neverhood/Skullmonkeys-esque vibe as this track, which can be heard above.
Mew-Genics to hoard over 12 sextillion cats
Team Meat's latest teaser for Mew-Genics is all about the game's "cast of cats," in that it features over 12,207,031,250,000,000,000,000 felines. The developer blog explains that the enormous number "only applies to how the cat looks, if you include its personality variables that number multiplies by A LOT."Team Meat added that "ability variables and personal stats" could practically guarantee that you'll never get the same cat twice in the game. Not that we know what that entails, since all we really know about Mew-Genics is that it's "kind of" about cats. Lots of them.
Nicalis wants your input on The Binding of Isaac's makeover
Nicalis is proposing four different art styles for The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, the console remake of Team Meat's bizarre PC game. Fans can vote on the four mock-up 16-bit art styles seen in the gallery below to determine which direction Nicalis will take the remake in.According to The Binding of Isaac creator Edmund McMillen's Tumblr blog, the game is getting a face lift "because I think the art is tired and I'm sick of looking at it." The survey also asks for input on which platforms the game should appear on, with 3DS and Wii U listed as options.Nicalis will begin development on the project in January and hopes to launch PS3, Vita and PC (Steam) versions of The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth by the end of 2013, with Xbox 360, iOS and Nintendo console ports a possibility. %Gallery-172447%
Final Mew-Genics character is one shady guy
In keeping with its established "Caturday" information release schedule, the final Mew-Genics character has been revealed by Team Meat. Butch (above) appears to be a fairly nefarious dude, one who's "into some shady stuff" and participates in zero legal activities of any kind. Given what Team Meat's previous games were like, we're kind of terrified of its definition of "shady stuff."Now that Butch and the other four characters have all been revealed, Team Meat will begin "teasing aspects of game design, music, the games many features and its release platforms," according to its official blog. We're just hoping this whole thing turns out to be based on The Aquabats' classic The Cat With Two Heads.
Super Meat Boy Galaxy charity drive to support Samaritans
A prototype of the copyright skirting Super Meat Boy Galaxy can be yours with a donation to a good cause. Aubrey Hesselgren, a friend of Team Meat's Tommy Refenes, created a prototype of Super Meat Boy Galaxy for Refenes' birthday last year, which is now being "ransomed" for donations to Samaritans.Samaritans is a service providing confidential emotional support to those who are experiencing distress or despair. They also provide suicide prevention support. Just think of all that money you're saving on the Steam sale and divert some of that cash to a good cause. Feel free to donate.
The fourth Mew-Genics character likes cats more than you
Tracy, the fourth character Team Meat revealed for its upcoming game Mew-Genics, was described as a girl that "likes cats... but isn't a big fan of you." Tracy's teaser image showed the wall of cages she seemed to keep her cats in, hopefully insinuating that she's a vet and not a hoarder.Team Meat unveiled a few characters over the past few weeks for its "game about cats," including Frank (who has head problems), Mr. Tinkles and Dr. Beanies. Another character reveal is planned for next Caturday.
Team Meat's third Mew-Genics character, Frank, has head problems
The third of five teaser images for Team Meat's latest project, Mew-Genics, is Frank. Frank has been diagnosed by his creators with "head problems," but we think he should be re-evaluated for sweat problems, hunchback problems, tooth problems and... is that a tail? Then yes, tail problems, too.Previous teaser images show characters with fewer physical ailments, but probably just as many issues: Mr. Tinkles and Dr. Beanies. We're guessing Mr. Tinkles has depression and bladder control problems, and Dr. Beanies has "eating cats" problems. Those are just guesses, of course.
Team Meat digs up first Mew-Genics characters, art each Caturday
Mew-Genics, the next game in a line of cheerfully disturbing adventures from Team Meat, stars Mr. Tinkles, Dr. Beanies and of course a cat with an extra head, early images show. Team Meat is disseminating five silhouttes of a full Mew-Genics teaser picture, one every Caturday (ahem, "Saturday," that is), until the full image is revealed.The first teaser in the silhouette showdown is Mr. Tinkles, a flamboyant "Party Gurl" with cat trophies as back-up dancers. Mr. Tinkles was revealed last week via the Team Meat Twitter. This Caturday (Saturday, sorry), we see Dr. Beanies, a worried-looking scientist with a cute cat in his lab, introduced on the Team Meat blog.Check out Dr. Beanies below, and stay tuned to Team Meat next Caturday (SATURDAY, damn it) for a new teaser.
Mew-Genics is the next Team Meat game
Team Meat's next game is called Mew-Genics. The game is described as "randomly generated" and will involve cats in some way, purr per Team Meat's announcement blog.Super Meat Boy creator Edmund McMillen said the project is the strangest he's ever worked on, and that platform announcements, gameplay details and screens for Mew-Genics will be revealed soon.
Edmund McMillen game collection escapes the basement in August, finds solace on Steam
Before he made a game about a boy with no skin and a fetus with a monocle, Edmund McMillen of Team Meat created a game about a young emo boy and his interplanetary adventures, one about a lonely man traveling through time and another about puking, along with a few others. Eight of these titles will be available on Steam in late August as a bundle called The Basement Collection, for $4.The Basement Collection will include Time Fcuk, Aether, Spewer, Grey Matter, Meat Boy (flash prototype), Triachnid and a locked, secret title updated with new content, soundtrack, difficulty modes and achievements. Each game will come with bonus content such as development sketches and early prototypes, and The Basement Collection will feature four "very large bonus unlockables that should make fans of my work quite happy," McMillen writes.The Basement Collection will also come with a free soundtrack with bonus indie remixes. Try out (i.e. "play") all of these titles for free via McMillen's Newgrounds page now, if you can spare a moment for puketastic, interstellar, time-traveling fun.
