I'm not sure I agree. How hard is it to come up with an idea...not so hard. Ask around in the venture capital community. It's not the great ideas they are looking for. Multi million dollar ideas get turned down routinely.
What's important is getting **** done and if Edmund can get **** done by getting some dude to code up his ideas that's good.

Is there any source ont he technical details of Isaac/how it was developed, what language that stuff? Quick google search didn't bring up anything.

Usually the programmer gets credit for the bugs ;P

Only had necro once but it instakilled the boss I used it on like the bible on mom. That's why I put it first heh

I'm not sure what you're disagreeing with, maybe the most programmers dont design anything part but the only design Edmund claims Florian had was technical design. Which pretty much boils down to whether or not Edmund's ideas can or can't be implemented. It's true that anyone can come up with an idea but implementing, balancing, creating a challenge and goal for that idea is another story. A lot of games can look like they will be fun on paper. You can have an awesome idea and bomb on the prototype.

You are right though when you say that the important thing is getting **** done. My biggest advice for any one working on anything independently in any medium is always work with people that are just as motivated as you.

It's written in flash. Florian and Edmund have worked on a couple flash games in the past and Isaac was supposed to be a small project made over a weekend for a game jam. Once they got rolling they decided to expand on it and finished it in 3 months from paper design to release. He said that his biggest regret is it being made in flash. It's kept a lot of items and features out of the game.

It also makes the game perform like ass on systems that should be more than qualified for a fairly simple 2d game.

No kidding. I'm still amazed how poorly this runs on my laptop.

I too was wondering why the performance was so bad on my gaming desktop.

Time for this guy to hire some proper programmers. He's gotta be sitting on a million or two from sales of SMB and Isaac alone.

It's a platform decision mistake. Flash sucks for anything performance related.

I'm sure Florian could have made the game just as easily in C++ or XNA and everything would have been fine.

So last time I played I beat the heart and a devil's room opened with a hatch down

Live Q&A on twitch with my Mom (Ed's) as she does commentary over Isaac gameplay

http://www.twitch.tv/danielleorama#5906

There has been some hilarious streams on danielleorama's channel lately. Please tell me someone here was there for the Shigo/xpeeps stream.

lol yup I was...sooooo much funny/awkwardness/disturbingness

lol the batman theme/paper airplane shenanigans almost killed me.

omg this xpeeps thing is awesome lol

So my office $600 custom built office computer runs this much better than my expensive gaming rig at home. I get huge slowdown when using bombs or when there are more than 3 mobs on screen. Sucks so much.

Just beat mom for the first time. 22 hours in. Not gonna lie, one of my happiest moments

1 mom kill, 132 deaths. Game is hard.