To McMillen, capturing the spirit of The Binding of Isaac video game in card game form was key. That means weird items combos that change how you play, randomization and replayability, managing money to buy better items, and notorious enemies and items that have taken on their own reputation.
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Here is a slideshow full of cards from the game:
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Because the decks are shuffled up each time, the item effects you get and the monsters you face will be different each time, much like the video game it’s based on. Crucially, unlike the video game, death doesn't mean you're out of the game entirely.Īs the game goes on, you can barter, trade, and buy items to get stronger and eventually take on the bosses. If you roll at or above that number, you deal your attack to its health, but if you roll below that number, then it deals its attack to you. Players and monsters both have an attack and health value, and monsters also have a dice value. You then choose whether you want to buy on item or fight a monster, which has a player rolling against that monster over and over until one of them dies. To start, you flip over two treasure cards that represent the shop and two monster cards that represent enemies in your room. There are three 100 card decks - treasure, monster, and loot - that you shuffle and work through during a game, and each player has their own slightly unique character. Here’s the fast version: Players take turns collecting items and fighting monsters, racing to be the first to gather four souls by killing four bosses.
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So how does it actually play? Watch the video below for a bite-sized explanation of the rules: He spent a few months playtesting and refining his idea, got back in touch with Studio71 to handle the production side of things, and has now launched a Kickstarter to finish the job. So a year later when McMillen was sick at home, he got the idea for a card game he could get behind and furiously prototyped it in a week. “I would have to be into the design and I’d want full control over it.” Basically, he didn’t want to just slap the Isaac name on someone else’s work and call it a card game.
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“If I ever did something like that it would have to be something that I made,” McMillen told them. If I ever did something like that it would have to be something that I made
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Though not quite the voice from above as explained in that video, McMillen tells me he was initially approached by a company called Studio71 who wanted to license Binding of Isaac for a card game that they would make for him.