- The End is Nigh is a new puzzle platformer by former Newgrounds creator Tyler Glaiel and Super Meat Boy’s Edmund McMillen out now on PC.It brings back Meat Boy’s precise controls and movement.
- Oct 20, 2010 Super Meat Boy is a sequel to the 2-year-old Newgrounds flash game Meat Boy. The spirit and mechanics remain the same: You run and jump across 350+ stages that are typically beat in under 30 seconds. Above all, you die a lot. One of the most amusing additions is the replay video you are shown at the end of completing a stage.
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Super Meat Boy co-creator announces The End Is Nigh. Alice O'Connor. 3 years ago. 10 Edmund McMillen, the co-creator of Super Meat Boy and The Binding of Isaac, has announced a deadly new platformer. The End Is Nigh official site is its name, and coming out in July is its game.
The creators of Super Meat Boy teased their followers with an RPG based on the arm wrestling movie Over the Top, but despite how excited some people were at the prospect of the game, it was all a joke.
The idea that Team Meat would create such a game wasn’t wholly unbelievable to the studio’s fans seeing how the core games the group is known for are centered around a meaty character avoiding deadly obstacles in a struggle against an evil scientist named Dr. Fetus. When Team Meat tweeted to say its actual new game called Super Meat Boy Forever was being wrapped up, it segued that into the strange “announcement” of the Over the Top RPG. People weren’t sure whether to believe it, but many were open to it.
We're wrapping up Super Meat Boy Forever and I'm happy to announce we've acquired the rights to the 1987 movie 'Over the Top'. It will be a RPG. God bless. pic.twitter.com/yGLLap19LB
— Team Meat (@SuperMeatBoy) January 9, 2019I honestly don't know if this is trolling or not
— PlayHouse Channel (@PlayHouse_News) January 9, 2019Aw, don’t be joking about that, that sounds really fun.
*grizzly drinks Motor oil. Intimidation is raised!*
After checking with Team Meat to make sure there was no truth to the teaser and that fans of the developers and the movie shouldn’t get their hopes up, Super Meat Boy designer and Team Meat co-founder Tommy Refenes confirmed to ComicBook.com that there aren’t any plans to create such a game, though that doesn’t mean he’s not open to it.
“For the record, I think it would be really fun to make an RPG based off that movie,” Refenes said when reached for comment. “The absurdity would be real. Maybe I'll call Warner Brothers after this whole SMBF thing is done!”
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0commentsA similar answer was shared as on Twitter as a follow-up to Team Meat’s initial tweets to temper anyone’s expectations if they were hoping for the game to be a reality.
I was lying....we could only get the rights to Blood Debts and it's going to be a cooking game.
— Team Meat (@SuperMeatBoy) January 9, 2019Based on the reception I guess I should call Warner Brothers at some point and see if I can actually get the rights. Truthfully I think it'd be hilarious to make an RPG around truck driving and arm wrestling.
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What Team Meat does have coming though is Super Meat Boy Forever, the next game in the Super Meat Boy franchise that’s due out sometime in April. Team Meat revealed the release window for the new game recently and also confirmed it’d be an Epic Games Store exclusive on the PC for a year before it becomes available on Steam. The console versions for the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 are all due out in April of this year as well.
The End is Nigh, as it always is in this genre.
The End is Nigh is a new platformer from Edmund McMillen, one half of the team responsible for Super Meat Boy, and Tyler Glaiel, who previously collaborated with McMillen on The Basement Collection and is best known for his own work for Closure.
As you’ll see in the teaser video above, The End is Nigh is another super-tough platformer. According to McMillen, The End is Nigh grew out of a prototype of a “completely stripped down platformer with an adventure game open feel where the levels were all locked into tidy little boxes but attached in a way where they could be explored”, which “felt a bit like VVVVVV meets 1001 Spikes with a Spelunky control setup”. It is the largest game he’s ever worked on, level wise, and ties together elements of his other works to date.
It stars Ash, one of the few “things” to have “survived” the “end of the world”. Those are McMillen’s scare quotes, by the way, so don’t be surprised if The End is Nigh is more than it seems. (Not that McMillen fans would be surprised to find deeper layers in his work.)
The End is Nigh boasts over 600 levels spread across 12 chapters as Ash pursues a quest to make a friend out of the bits and pieces her finds as he travels. Players will collect (playable video game cartridges and (presumably non-playable) tumour collectibles, and unlock a bunch of secrets and hidden endings.
The End is Nigh releases on Steam on July 12, and is coming to Switch, and possibly other consoles, in the future.
McMillen said he kept quiet on The End is Nigh until close to release because he’s sick of announcing games that never make it to market. Speaking of which: if you’ve been following McMillen’s career you may be wondering what happened to his last announced project, 0uroboros. While that game may still happen, McMillen said he and Glaiel needed to take a break after the project stymied.
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The Super Meat Boy team hasn’t delivered much the past few years. Of the projects we know Tommy Refenes was involved with, Super Meat Boy Forever went back into development, but that was almost two years ago and we haven’t heard anything since. Mew-Genics was cancelled, much to our despair.
As for McMillen, apart from DLC and re-releases for The Binding of Isaac: The Legend of Bum-Bo was announced well over a year ago, but has been silent since February. Fingered did come out, though; you can find it on Steam.
The good news is that The Legend of Bum-Bo is still in active development; McMillen mentioned it specifically in an FAQ attached to the announce of The End is Nigh. It’s coming in December, and McMillen has no other projects in the works bar Binding of Isaac booster packs.