The Basement Collection

The Basement Collection
Designer(s)	Edmund McMillen Tyler Glaiel William Good Eli Piilonen Tommy Refenes Florian Himsl
Artist(s)	Edmund McMillen
Composer(s)	Danny Baranowsky
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X
Release date(s)	August 31, 2012
Mode(s)	Single-player

The Basement Collection is a compilation of Edmund McMillen's Flash games released on August 31, 2012.^[1][2] The games were remade with added features and music tracks.

Content

The games in the collection include:

• Triachnid (2006), a physics spider simulation game
• Coil (2008), an experimental game
• Meat Boy (2008), a Super Meat Boy predecessor
• Aether (2008), a space adventure game
• Grey-Matter (2008), an anti-shooter game
• Spewer (2009), a liquid physics platform game
• Time Fcuk (2009), a dark puzzle game

Unlockable content includes:

• The Lonely Hermit (2001), a child's story (unlocked by completing Triachnid)
• AVGM (2009), an experimental "Abusive Video Game Manipulation" joke mini-game (unlocked by completing Coil)
• Meat Boy (map pack) (2008), the Meat Boy game with different maps (unlocked by completing Meat Boy)
• The Box, scans of Edmund McMillen's art at 3–5 years-old that were found in a box kept by his grandmother (unlocked by completing Aether)
• Thicker Than Water, a 65-page virtual comic about Edmund McMillen's childhood (unlocked by completing Spewer)
• The Chest, eight years of drawings from Edmund McMillen's sketchbooks (unlocked by completing Time Fcuk)

Additionally, under steamapps/common/basement/moregames, four other games can be found:

• Carious Weltling (2003)
• Clubby the seal (2004), a side-scrolling action game
• Carious Weltling 2 (2005)
• Dumpling (2005)

Most of the content was previously published at Newgrounds:

• The Lonely Hermit (2001)
• Tri-achnid (2006)
• Coil (2008)
• Aether (2008)
• Meat Boy (2008)
• Grey-Matter (2008)
• Meat boy (map pack) (2008)
• AVGM (2009)
• Spewer (2009)
• Time Fcuk (2009)

Notes

• McMillen, Edmund (August 2012). "A new game has appeared in the basement!". Edmundm.com. Edmund McMillen.
• Rambo, Dant (2012-08-27). "Edmund McMillen Interview, Part 1: The Basement Collection". Gamezebo. Gamezebo, Inc.
• Johnson, Ryan (2012-09-02). "Interview with Edmund McMillen for the Basement Collection (Reviewed)". GoozerNation. Michael Rohde.
• Mason_M (2012-09-08). "The Basement Collection Review". WikiGameGuides.com. Next Gen Walkthroughs LLC.

References

1. Gera, Emily (2012-08-22). "Edmund McMillen on talent and why his 'Basement Collection' was so long in coming". The Verge. Vox Media.
2. Kubba, Sinan (2012-08-31). "Edmund McMillen's Basement Collection arrives on Steam today". Joystiq. AOL.

External links

• The Basement Collection on Steam