Inspired by the BioShock game series, the game is set in the fictional Joey Drew Studios. The player controls Henry Stein, a retired animator who receives a letter inviting him back to his old workplace. Stein discovers a series of strange paranormal activities caused by the titular Ink Machine. In the game, players navigate through a first person perspective and need to complete certain tasks to proceed, such as combat, collecting objects, or solving puzzles. Players can also find audio logs recorded by the studio's employees to understand the game's history.
Bendy and the Ink Machine was well-received upon its initial release. Praise centered on its vintage aesthetic and story, although its puzzles and combat mechanics were less popular. In the months following its release, the game quickly gained a large following from exposure on platforms like YouTube and Twitch and eventually was approved through Steam Greenlight in mid-2017. Merchandise, as well as a mobile spin-off, was later introduced to further promote the game. Mike Desjardins, the game's programmer, and co-creator described the game as an "accidental success".[3] A sequel, Bendy and the Dark Revival, was released on November 15, 2022, while a film adaptation by Radar Pictures is currently in production.[4][5]
Gameplay
Bendy and the Ink Machine is a first person survival that resembles several cartoons in the 1920s to 1940s. The player plays as Henry Stein, a retired animator who returns to his old workplace, Joey Drew Studios, and discovers that a machine has destroyed the entire studio and brought certain cartoon characters to life. The game mixes combat with puzzle mechanics.[6] Players explore through a first-person view and have limited physical actions such as running and jumping.[7] Different items can be collected, some of which are required to perform various tasks before proceeding.[8] Cans of bacon soup can also be collected for achievements and to restore Henry's health if he is injured.[9]
Combat is primarily focused around a variety of different melee-based weapons, such as an axe, pipe, plunger, wrench, or scythe,[10] though the scythe is not accessible in normal gameplay. Additionally, there are long-range weapons such as a tommy gun or bacon soup cans. In-game enemies have different strength levels and resilience to damage, forcing players to be tactical about keeping out of reach and striking when necessary.[11] Failure to do so will result in a death.[10] Henry can retreat inside Little Miracle Stations whenever enemies are nearby in order to recover or remain out of sight. If he takes too much damage, he can escape from the ink that consumes him and respawn at one of the numerous statues of Bendy that act as checkpoints.[12][13] The player can save their progress by interacting with time card stations.[13]
In addition, players can find numerous audio logs throughout the studio that give more details about the game's story, particularly concerning the fate of the studio and its employees, similar to the systems used in games such as BioShock.[14][15] Some of these logs can be missed and require further exploration to uncover the secret areas they often reside In. During the final chapter, players unlock the Seeing Tool, which is a device used to view secret hidden messages that would be invisible without it. After completing it, players can also use it in the previous four chapters during replays.[16]
Plot
Chapter 1: Moving Pictures
In the year 1963, Henry Stein, co-founder and former animator at Joey Drew Studios, is invited back to the studio by his former friend and business partner, Joey Drew. Henry enters the studio and finds it abandoned and splattered with ink, as well as the mutilated corpse of what appears to be an anthropomorphic figure in the form of Boris the Wolf, one of the studio's fan favorite characters. Henry discovers that the mess was caused by the Ink Machine, a device Joey created after Henry had left with the purpose of generating real-life versions of the studio's cartoon characters.
Henry repairs the machine and activates it by collecting items left behind by the studio staff, but is then attacked by a monster taking an ink-based form of the studio's mascot, Bendy the Dancing Demon. As Henry tries to escape, the floor collapses and he falls into the studio's lower levels, now flooded with ink. He drains the ink, finds an axe, and enters a room with coffins and a pentagram drawn on the floor. When he steps on the latter, he hallucinates several images of Bendy in quick succession and then passes out.
Chapter 2: The Old Song
Henry wakes up, retrieves his axe, and searches for a way out. He eventually comes to the music department and discovers an exit at the bottom of some stairs, but the stairs are flooded and blocking the door. After battling ink creatures known as Searchers, Henry finds music director Sammy Lawrence's office and finds a pump switch inside that could drain the ink at the stairs, but his office is blocked by a massive ink leak. Henry finds two valves that lower the ink pressure, one of which is held by a Searcher with a hat that he must defeat. At one point, he must learn to play Sammy's favorite song to open a door to reach the second valve.
After stopping the leak, Henry drains the ink at the stairs. While approaching the stairs, however, he is knocked out with janitor Wally Frank's dustpan by Sammy, who has turned into an ink humanoid with a Bendy mask. After Henry wakes up, Sammy reveals he intends to sacrifice Henry to Bendy, whom he worships as a deity, so that he can be free of the ink. As Sammy begins the ritual, though, he is attacked by Bendy and presumably killed. Henry breaks free and flees from Bendy into a storage room, locking the door behind him. Venturing into the room, he finds a fully intact Boris the Wolf.
Chapter 3: Rise and Fall
When he wakes up, Henry finds himself in a small safehouse. He finds Boris and cooks a pot of bacon soup for him in exchange for a lever needed to open the exit. The two leave the safehouse to find another way out of the studio. After using a flashlight to make their way through a dark area, they come across the studio's Toy Department and find a back room full of merchandise for Alice Angel, the studio's lead female. After Boris is briefly separated from Henry, he gives him a Gent pipe to use as a weapon. Henry is then confronted by an ink version of Alice, who jumpscares him. He is then presented with a choice of two paths; the one chosen by the player will affect the ending of the level, and the other will become blocked off.
Reaching Level 9, Henry and Boris discover multiple mutilated clones of Boris and other ink monsters collectively called the Butcher Gang, which Alice has been harvesting to improve her appearance. Meeting Alice, who is torturing one of the monsters, Henry is instructed to complete several tasks for her in exchange for being allowed to escape the studio. She provides him with various tools, which he must use to carry out her instructions while avoiding or fending off enemies.
As Henry completes the tasks, it becomes apparent that Alice is actually Susie Campbell, the character's original voice actress who became obsessed with Alice to the point of believing she was her character, and grew vindictive after she was replaced by another actress, Allison Pendle. She has since taken Alice's form after being corrupted by the ink. After Henry fulfills her needs, she sends him to the elevator where he can leave, but forces it to fall after discovering Boris, whom she wants to harvest as he is the most perfect Boris. The elevator crashes, knocking Henry out. As Boris tries to wake Henry up, Alice kidnaps Boris and takes him away.
Chapter 4: Colossal Wonders
Waking back up from passing out and Boris' abduction, Henry leaves the broken lift and explores the cavernous archives of the studio to find and rescue Boris. After Alice taunts Henry over loudspeakers about Boris' capture, Henry comes across a lounge filled with Lost Ones, people infected by the ink who show no hostility. After fleeing through the vents, Henry discovers that Joey planned to open a Bendy-themed amusement park called Bendy Land, with the help of famed amusement park designer Bertrum Piedmont. Henry deduces that the haunted house attraction is the way to go and traverses the storage area to find the switches to power the ride up.
He activates the four power switches by playing carnival games, sneaking past the Butcher Gang, destroying an octopus ride with which an ink-corrupted Bertrum has merged himself, and escaping from "the Projectionist," an ink-corrupted creature with a movie projector for a head who was formerly studio projectionist Norman Polk. Henry watches Bendy fight the Projectionist and tear his head off. Once on the haunted house ride, Henry is shocked to discover that Alice has transformed Boris into a vicious monster. Unable to turn him back to normal, Henry is forced to kill Boris, who fades away. An enraged Alice tries to attack and kill Henry herself, but is killed from behind by another, fully sane version of Alice Angel and a robot-handed clone of Boris.
Chapter 5: The Last Reel
The new Alice and Boris, dubbed Allison Angel (Allison Pendle) and Tom (Thomas Connor, the lead engineer of the Ink Machine), lock Henry in a makeshift prison, as they aren't sure if they can trust him. Henry manages to gain Allison's trust, and she gives Henry a Seeing Tool, which is used to see hidden messages; Henry sees a message that says Allison will leave Henry for dead (which is later proven true).
Later, Bendy discovers Allison and Tom's location, and Tom (still distrusting Henry) convinces Allison to leave Henry behind so they can escape, knowing that they can't get him out before Bendy arrives. Henry manages to escape the prison on his own after discovering a secret room with a weapon behind the wall, thanks to the hidden messages. Once he escapes, Henry sees Allison and Tom escaping on a barge through a river of ink. He follows them on a second barge, with a massive Bendy hand chasing behind him. Henry arrives in a shanty town built by the Searchers and the Lost Ones. There, he is confronted by an injured Sammy, who deliriously believes Henry is Bendy and tries to take revenge for almost killing him. Sammy overpowers Henry and tries to kill him, but is killed by Tom, who finally trusts Henry and equips him with an axe. With Sammy out of the way, the Searchers and Lost Ones he was keeping at bay become violent and start attacking. Henry, Allison, and Tom work together and defeat the wave of monsters. Henry leads the way onward, but falls into the administration offices on a lower level. Henry tries to escape through the film vault, but the entrance is flooded. He works to reconnect the pipe system to drain the ink, all while hiding from the Butcher Gang.
Once in the film vault, a message reveals that a film reel has been stolen by Bendy. Allison and Tom arrive and join Henry on his quest to find Bendy. They discover that Bendy's lair is a massive version of the Ink Machine. Henry is forced to go in alone, as the entrance is surrounded by ink, which could reabsorb and kill Allison and Tom. Inside, Henry finds a message from Joey, who talks about his downfall and how Henry can fix the darkness by showing Bendy the stolen reel, titled "The End". It's revealed that the Ink Machine was used in a combination of occult magic and technological alchemy to create real-life mascots for Bendy Land, but Bendy was abandoned in the depths of the studio, as unlike the other creations, which are made from the souls of the staff, he was made from scratch and soulless as a result, locked away in a prison-like throne room filled with cartoons in a vain attempt to imprint the desired traits onto him. Bendy arrives and transforms into a massive monster, known as Beast Bendy, knocking Henry into another room and giving chase. Henry escapes Bendy and returns to his throne to play "The End" reel, which broadcasts the words "The End" on several screens, causing Bendy to dissolve as his story comes to a close.
Afterwards, Henry is transported to Joey's house, who talks about how the two went on different paths, and how Joey's path burned because of his ambition. He summons Henry to the studio and the events of the beginning of the game play again, revealing that Henry is caught in a time loop called the Cycle.
In a post-credits scene, the camera zooms in on a signed picture from Henry of Bendy, Boris and Alice Angel. Offscreen, a young girl (implied to be Joey's niece) asks her "Uncle Joey" to tell her another story.
Characters and voice cast
The Projectionist cosplay
Henry Stein (voiced by theMeatly) is a co-founder and animator of Joey Drew Studios, who created the characters in the Bendy cartoons. He is the main protagonist, who has returned to Joey Drew Studios after 30 years.
Joey Drew (voiced by David Eddings) is the founder and CEO of Joey Drew Studios. Prior to the games events, Joey went bankrupt and the studio collapsed from its former glory.
Wally Franks (voiced by theMeatly) is Joey Drew Studios' relaxed janitor. Besides Henry, he is the only character to appear in all 5 chapters via audio logs. He is most known for his phrase "I'm outta here!"
Thomas Connor (voiced by Mike Mood) is a gruff and grouchy mechanical engineer from Gent Enterprises who was hired by Joey Drew Studios to build the Ink Machine. He is married to Allison Pendle. In the game, he has been corrupted by the ink and turned into a Boris clone, who goes by Tom, friend of Allison. He is shown to be hostile towards Henry.
Sammy Lawrence (voiced by Aaron Landon) is an antagonist of Bendy and the Ink Machine and the former music director of Joey Drew Studios, who started to go insane. By the events of the game, he has been corrupted by the ink and worships Bendy as a deity.
Norman Polk (voiced by theMeatly) is the elusive and observant projectionist of Joey Drew Studios. By the events of the game, he has been turned into the Projectionist, a humanoid monster with a projector head.
Susie Campbell (voiced by Alanna Linayre) is the original voice actress for Alice Angel, who became obsessed with the character, and went crazy when she was replaced by Allison Pendle. By the events of the game, she has been corrupted by the ink and turned into a twisted version of Alice.
Alice Angel (voiced by Lauren Synger) is the lead female in the Bendy cartoons. In the game, she is a twisted form of the original character, taken form through her voice actress Susie Campbell.
Jack Fain (voiced by Bookpast) is the main lyricist at Joey Drew Studios and Sammy's second-in-command. In the game, he has been corrupted by the ink and transformed into a Swollen Searcher.
Grant Cohen (voiced by Will Alex "DAGames" Ryan) is Joey Drew's exasperated accountant.
Bertrum Piedmont (voiced by Joe J. Thomas) is a famed British theme park designer, who built the Bendy-themed amusement park, Bendy Land and rejects his treatment by Joey Drew. In the game, he has merged with an octopus ride.
Lacie Benton (voiced by Lani Minella) is an engineer working under Bertrum Piedmont. Minella also voices a cheeky, childish Searcher named Heidi in the sequel Bendy and the Dark Revival.
Allison Pendle (voiced by Lauren Synger) is the second voice actress for Alice Angel, replacing Susie Campbell. She is married to Thomas Connor. In the game, she has been corrupted by the ink and transformed into a kinder form of Alice Angel named Allison, friend of Tom.
Additionally, there are multiple characters in the game with no featured dialogue:
Ink Bendy is the main antagonist. He is a vicious and deformed version of Bendy, the main character of the Bendy cartoons. He is known by the ink residents as the Ink Demon.
Boris the Wolf / Buddy Boris is a secondary character in the Bendy cartoons. In the game, a friendly version of him appears as Henry's companion, before he is transformed into Brute Boris by Alice. Additionally, multiple clones of Boris appear throughout the game as mutilated corpses. He is the corrupted version of Buddy.
The Butcher Gang are a trio from the Bendy cartoons, who are always at odds with Bendy. In the game, they appear as the Piper (Charley), the Fisher (Barley) and the Striker (Edgar).
The Searchers are a group of humanoid ink creatures who attack Henry throughout the game.
The Lost Ones are employees of Joey Drew Studios, who have been corrupted by the ink, and are not hostile. A specific Lost One is voiced by Joe J. Thomas.
The Swollen Searchers are enlarged and passive forms of the Searchers. Henry can harvest ink from them and use it to create needed objects.
The idea for Bendy and the Ink Machine came from TheMeatly pondering the idea of a world that resembled a cartoon sketch. As he started developing the idea, he realized that it felt "creepy" and needed a monster that inhabited it. Bendy was created to be that monster, but did not have a name. When the character finally received a 3D model, the name was chosen from a typo while saving it in a 3D modeling program, Blender. TheMeatly was not a programmer and thus Mike Mood joined the production as he saw potential in the game.[17]Bendy and the Ink Machine was inspired by the BioShock series.[18]
The first chapter, "Moving Pictures", took five days to be finished.[19] The game was then released for free on Game Jolt on February 10, 2017, being one of the first games that were released on the platform.[20] Originally, the project was "for fun", according to Mike Mood, but it later became viral and incentivized them to develop a second chapter, "The Old Song", which was officially announced in March 2017 and took six weeks to be finished.[17][19] It was released on April 18, 2017,[21] and also added a remastered version of the previous chapter, an updated menu, subtitles, achievements, etc.[22] The game was approved by Steam Greenlight on February 28, 2017,[23][24] and was then released on Steam on April 27, 2017.[25] "Chapter 1" was made available for free, while "Chapter 2" was released as a DLC for $6.[22]
The third chapter, "Rise and Fall", was announced on production in May 2017. It was developed by six people in at least four months,[19][26] and the reason for its long development, according to Mike Mood, was because he needed to create a framework "to make the process smoother".[26] Its trailer was released in August 2017, which showed an animated short intitled "Tombstone Picnic" and showed Henry running from Ink Bendy in a room.[27] However, Mike Mood stated it was used only for the trailer's chase sequence and for test purposes.[c][28] It was released on September 28, 2017,[29] while the previous two chapters also received remastered versions.[19]
On October 27, 2017, the game had a crossover with Hello Neighbor, making changes like replacing Ink Bendy and Sammy Lawrence with the Neighbor, as well as replacing Ink Bendy's chase music with the Neighbor's. The crossover lasted until October 31. The Hello Neighbor side of the crossover can be accessed through the Steam beta system, while the Bendy and the Ink Machine side of the crossover is widely believed to be lost media, although it can still be downloaded through Steam's depot system.[citation needed]
The fourth chapter, "Colossal Wonders", was firstly confirmed in production on November 17, 2017.[30] It also included remastered versions of the first three chapters, which included enhanced soundtracks and textures.[31][32][33] It was released on April 30, 2018. Originally scheduled for April 28, it was delayed due to technical problems on Steam that disallows to make releases during weekends.[34] The fifth and final chapter, "The Last Reel", was firstly confirmed in production on June 4, 2018.[35] Later, it was announced that it would be released in October, and that it would be received for free for players who have bought the previous chapters.[36] A special edition, titled Bendy and the Ink Machine: Jacksepticeye Edition, was given to YouTuber Jacksepticeye before the fifth chapter released to the public, which included all five chapters.[37] The chapter was released on October 26, 2018.[38] The game received a final bundle on the next day, titled Bendy and the Ink Machine: Complete Edition. Chapters 2–4, which were previously available as downloadable content, became free, while the game became paid.
On January 29, 2018, TheMeatly officially announced that Bendy and the Ink Machine would be released to consoles.[39] The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One ports were published by Rooster Teeth Games, originally intended to be released on October 26, 2018, while the Nintendo Switch port was scheduled to release on November 20, but both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One's release dates were pushed to the same date for Nintendo Switch's release.[40] On December 15, 2018, a mobile port was announced by TheMeatly and Joey Drew Studios, and it was released on December 21, 2018.[41]
According to the aggregating review website Metacritic, Bendy and the Ink Machine received "mixed or average reviews" on its console ports.[42][43][44] The website Rock, Paper, Shotgun considered the first chapter one of the best free games from the week.[47]
The game's storyline and setting were mostly praised. Most reviewers noted that the game's art style resembles the "Steamboat Willie" era of Disney's cartoons,[48] with PlayStation LifeStyle considering Bendy as an "obvious parallel" between other cartoon characters such as Mickey Mouse or Betty Boop.[49] Liam Martin of Express considered that the game's theme to be that "classic cartoons are more sinister than we remember".[50] Sean Warhurst of ImpulseGamer also considered the game's visuals as the game's "biggest strength" and that its graphics engine "complements the artistic direction".[48] This was also considered by Barry Stevens of Entertainment Focus, considering that "the game has a really unique art style and really pulls off the old animation studio feel with everything being drawn in a 30s style".[51]
Most websites considered the game's gameplay mechanics repetitive. TheXboxHub considered the game's combat mechanics "frustrating", as most of its enemies die in only one hit.[6]VGCultureHQ considered that if would have some range weapons in the second chapter, such as a gun or a slingshot, "would help make lengthy combat sequences feel more fair and less of a risk". However, it also stated that the boss battles in the game feel "intense".[10] The puzzles, according to The Digital Fix, were considered repetitive, saying that "It's something we've done a million times before".[52]
VGCultureHQ considered the game's chapter lengths "too short" and without a "fair balance", considering that it could be completed in four hours, considering that the first and final chapters could be "finished in just under a half-hour", while the other three chapters "may take longer".[10] According to Hely on Horror, the first chapter serves as a "tutorial", as guides the player to "interact with the environment and solve simple puzzles", the second chapter is where combat is introduced, but it considered that the third chapter is where players are thrown into the action.[15] Steven Asarch of Player.One considered the third chapter's task list as a "lazy attempt for developers to pad the game without adding any additional content", and that if future chapters could focus more on the characters development, "they could've truly be masterpieces".[53]
The game has been frequently compared with BioShock, due to, according to PlayStation LifeStyle, the game having an "antique style".[54]Nintendo Life also considered the motives of having a BioShock vibe in the game due to "the revelations that are made of Henry's past to the retro aesthetic that clings to every corner of the game's dilapidated setting". However, it also compared it to Resident Evil, and Outlast, considering it a "fusion".[46] The game was also compared with Cuphead and Epic Mickey, for their homages to "rubber hose" animation and the style of 20th-century cartoons.[11][46][52]
Sales
By 2017, the game achieved 750,000 downloads on Steam, according to Player.One.[55]
Awards
The game has received the "Best Horror Game" award by IGN and is listed as #1 in "18 Best Horror Games of 2017".[56] The mobile port received the "Game of the Day" award on February 23, 2019.[57] TouchArcade nominated the mobile port as the "Game of the Week" on December 21, 2018.[58]
YouTube was a big contributor for the popularity of Bendy and the Ink Machine. Many gamers such as Markiplier[59] and Jacksepticeye were seen making "Let's Play" videos of Bendy and the Ink Machine, which reached millions of views.[55][60] Many YouTube musicians also made fan songs for Bendy and the Ink Machine, the most popular being DAGames' "Build Our Machine", which has been viewed more than 100 million times.[55] Some of the most popular fanmade songs were later included in an album entitled "Bendy's Inky Megamix", which was made to help raise donations for United Ways COVID-19 relief charity at Tiltify.[61][62] Some of these fan-made songs were included in the game, including DAGames' "Build Our Machine", Kyle Allen's "Bendy and the Ink Machine Song", Random Encounters' "Bendy and the Ink Musical", and JT Music's "Can't Be Erased".
This caused the game to have a giant fanbase, which Mood described as different from the most fanbases, calling other games' fanbases sometimes "toxic".[63] The game also attracted an audience of children, whose attention was mostly given to the character Bendy, although the game is T-rated.[55][64] According to Mike Mood, what the made the game so popular was because of its characters.[55]
It also surged merchandise from the game, such as toys, shirts, etc., which can be bought on the game's official store.[65][66] Books and comic books were also released.[67][68]
Spin-offs
A mobile spin-off called Bendy in Nightmare Run was announced on January 26, 2018.[69] It was released on iOS on August 15, 2018,[70][71] and on Android on September 27. The game is an endless runner style game involving the player characters of either Bendy, Boris, or Alice collecting Bacon Soup while running away from large bosses chasing the player character.
A spin-off called Boris and the Dark Survival was released on February 10, 2020, on Bendy and the Ink Machine's 3-year anniversary.[72] The game is a prequel, taking place before the first chapter of the original game. It revolves around Boris the Wolf searching through the different levels of Joey Drew Studios looking for supplies for his safehouse while escaping Ink Bendy, Twisted Alice, the Projectionist, the Butcher Gang, or Borkis, a yellow-eyed version of Boris.[73] The game also received several updates after its release. The latest one, Symphony of Shadows, was released on June 30, 2020.[74]
Joke games
On October 23, 2018, Joey Drew Studios posted on Twitter an image announcing a joke game, entitled Black Ink Possession, parodying Red Dead Redemption 2.[75] During April Fools in 2020, the emprise poster a trailer of another joke game, Bendy Royale. It parodies Fortnite: Battle Royale, where it was meant to be a battle royale with Bendy and the Ink Machine characters being playable.[76] Subsequent joke games and other media have been posted on Joey Drew Studios' channel with the likes of a supposed show known as Bendy: Ink Chronicles which was meant to be a live action adaptation of the original Bendy and the Ink Machine.[77] The most recent joke game posted to the Joey Drew Studios channel is a game titled Bendy: Campus Crush, which parodies a stereotypical visual novel.[78]
Crossovers
A Halloween crossover mod, Hello Bendy, was released for the game on October 27, 2017, for a limited time, featuring the Hello Neighbor antagonist, who takes the role as Bendy in all previous three chapters and Sammy Lawrence for Chapter 2.[79][80] The mod's menu features the advertisement of pre-ordering the game Hello Neighbor. The mod expired by the end of October that year.
Co-creator Mike Mood has talked about wanting to do a crossover with Cuphead, which also was popular at around the same time and also uses rubber hose animation.[81]
Bendy and the Dark Revival
Another game, Bendy and the Dark Revival, was announced on April 14, 2019.[82] However, Mike Desjardins stated on February 13, 2019, that it would not serve as Bendy and the Ink Machine 2.[83] A gameplay trailer was released on June 24, 2019, announcing the game's release for Fall 2019.[84] However, in December 2019, a new trailer was released to say that the game was being delayed and will release sometime in 2020.[85] Another trailer was released on June 1, 2020, revealing that the game would be released in its entirety with all five chapters included, unlike the first game which was released episodically. The trailer also suggested the game would come out in the latter half of 2020.[86][87] However, on November 30, 2020, the developers announced that the game would be releasing in 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The developers also cited that the game will be ten times bigger than the original game and that they didn't want to rush the game.[88][89] The game was, however, delayed once again to 2022 without being announced. On October 31, 2022, the official Bendy social media accounts announced that a trailer for Bendy and the Dark Revival would be uploaded the following day.[90] The game was officially released on November 15, 2022.[91] While serving as a sort of reboot, with characters getting new designs (such as Joey and Bendy), the game is a continuation of the original game.
Bendy: Secrets of the Machine
Another game, Bendy: Secrets of the Machine, was released on 14 April 2024. The player explore Gent's creation, solving puzzles and uncovering mysteries in the realm of Dark Puddles, where past, present, and future intertwine. Released on Steam as a free game, revealing a game called "B3ndy".
Potential television adaptation
In 2020, Derek Kolstad, creator of the John Wick franchise, stated that he has interest in making a television adaptation based on the game.[92][93]
Film adaptation
On December 25, 2023, a film adaptation based on the game was announced on the game's official Twitter account, which is currently in the works.[94] On October 31, 2024, it was announced through the video that André Øvredal will now directing the film, he said "I promise we’re going to make a really special movie, something that all the fans are going to love. Something that honours the fantastic characters, fun worlds, and everything we all love about the Bendy games.”[95]
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Frederick Bean "Tex" Avery was an American animator, cartoonist, director, and voice actor. He was known for directing and producing animated cartoons during the golden age of American animation. His most significant work was for the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, where he was crucial in the creation and evolution of famous animated characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Droopy, Screwy Squirrel, The Wolf, Red Hot Riding Hood, and George and Junior.
Betty Boop is an animated cartoon character designed by Grim Natwick at the request of Max Fleischer. She originally appeared in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop film series, which were produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures. She was featured in 90 theatrical cartoons between 1930 and 1939. She has also been featured in comic strips and mass merchandising.
Phil LaMarr is an American actor and comedian. He was one of the original featured cast members on the sketch comedy television series Mad TV, where he stayed for five seasons. His voice acting roles in animated series include the title character of Samurai Jack, both John Stewart / Green Lantern and Virgil Hawkins / Static in the DC Animated Universe, Hermes Conrad in Futurama, Bolbi Stroganofsky in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Carver Descartes in The Weekenders, Ollie Williams and Judge Dignified Q. Blackman in Family Guy, and Wilt in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. LaMarr has also provided voices for video game franchises including Metal Gear, Jak and Daxter, Darksiders, Final Fantasy, Infamous, Dead Island, Kingdom Hearts, and Mortal Kombat. He also voiced Browntooth the Goblin Rogue in the Critical Role episode "The Goblins".
Alice in Wonderland is a 1951 American animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It is based on Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its 1871 sequel Through the Looking-Glass. The production was supervised by Ben Sharpsteen, and was directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske. With the voices of Ed Wynn, Richard Haydn, Sterling Holloway, Jerry Colonna and Kathryn Beaumont in her film debut, the film follows a young girl, Alice, who falls down a rabbit hole and enters a nonsensical world, Wonderland, which is ruled by the Queen of Hearts, while encountering strange creatures, including the Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat.
Toonstruck is a graphic adventure video game developed by Burst Studios, published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment and released in 1996 for DOS. The game features hand-drawn imagery and animated characters, but the protagonist Drew Blanc is represented as a video-captured live action character interacting with the cartoon world around him. In the game, Blanc is transported into the cartoon world he created while suffering from a creative block. Blanc is accompanied by his animated sidekick Flux Wildly.
Eric Bauza is a Canadian voice actor based in the United States. He is mostly known for voicing several Looney Tunes characters, for which he won two Emmy Awards for his performances in Looney Tunes Cartoons (2020–2024) and Bugs Bunny Builders (2022–present). Other notable roles include Puss in Boots in The Adventures of Puss in Boots (2015–2018) and Baby Fozzie in Muppet Babies (2018–2022).
Lani Minella is an American voice actress, voice director, and producer mostly working in the games industry. She is also the founder and owner of the voice-acting agency AudioGodz.
An episodic video game is a video game of a shorter length that is commercially released as an installment to a continuous and larger series. Episodic games differ from conventional video games in that they often contain less content but are developed on a more frequent basis.
Adventure Time is an American fantasy animated television series created by Pendleton Ward and co-produced by Frederator Studios for Cartoon Network. The series follows the adventures of a boy named Finn and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake —a dog with the power to change size and shape at will. Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, where they interact with Princess Bubblegum, the Ice King, Marceline, BMO, and others. The series is based on a 2007 short film that aired on Nicktoons. After the short became a viral hit on the Internet, Nickelodeon's executives passed on its option before Cartoon Network commissioned a full-length series from Fred Seibert and Ward, which was previewed on March 11, 2010. The same year, the series premiered on Cartoon Network on April 5, and it ended its eight-year run on September 3, 2018.
The New Alice in Wonderland is a 1966 American animated television special written by Bill Dana and produced by Hanna-Barbera. It was broadcast on the ABC network on March 30, 1966, in an hour slot. The songs were written by composer Charles Strouse and lyricist Lee Adams, who were most famous for Bye Bye Birdie. The songs were orchestrated by Marty Paich, who also provided musical direction; plus devised and arranged that part of the underscoring that was drawn from the musical numbers. The rest of the underscoring was drawn from the vast library of cues that Hanna-Barbera's in-house composer Hoyt Curtin had written for various animated series.
Popeye the Sailor is a fictional cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar. The character first appeared on January 17, 1929, in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre. The strip was in its tenth year when Popeye made his debut, but the one-eyed sailor quickly became the lead character, and Thimble Theatre became one of King Features' most popular properties during the 1930s. Following Segar's death in 1938, Thimble Theatre was continued by several writers and artists, most notably Segar's assistant Bud Sagendorf. The strip continues to appear in first-run installments on Sundays, written and drawn by R. K. Milholland. The daily strips are reprints of old Sagendorf stories.
Steven Universe is an American animated television series created by Rebecca Sugar for Cartoon Network. It tells the coming-of-age story of a young boy, Steven Universe, who lives with the Crystal Gems—magical, mineral-based aliens named Garnet (Estelle), Amethyst, and Pearl —in the fictional town of Beach City. Steven, who is half-Gem, has adventures with his friends and helps the Gems protect the world from their own kind. The pilot was first shown in May 2013, and the series ran for five seasons, from November 2013 to January 2019. The TV film Steven Universe: The Movie was released in September 2019, and an epilogue limited series, Steven Universe Future, ran from December 2019 to March 2020. Books, comics and video games based on the series have been released.
Sammy is an American adult animated sitcom that aired on NBC in 2000. Created by comedians David Spade and Drake Sather, the series only had a two-week run, from August 8 until August 15, 2000. The artstyle of the series is reminiscent of Klasky Csupo cartoons as Everett Peck was the character designer for the series.
Bendy is a horror game series and media franchise created by Paul Crawford and Mike Desjardins.
↑ Wise, Haley (October 27, 2020). "10 Story-Driven Games That Are Better The Second Time You Play Them". The Gamer. Retrieved February 23, 2021. However, the thing that makes this game better on the second playthrough is that players get the Seeing Tool upon the first completion. The Seeing Tool reveals multiple messages across all the chapters placed throughout the environment. These messages answer some questions but create so many more, adding to the experience of a second playthrough.
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