boris fact
The Boris and the Dark Survival Movie is still in the process of being made. We do not currently have any release date. Boris is surrounded by a cast that has been teased, including Five Night At Freddy and Poppy Playtime. 👀
fun fact
sammys texture in the original beta had two scars across his chest. This may have been meant for symbolism with the ink demon but ultimately, with chapter 4's release, this was removed.
fun fact
Bendy and The Ink Machine has a scene which is very similar to a scene in Garten of Banban 2 where the player is knocked out. This was actually because Garten of Banban 2 inspired Bendy and The Ink Machine Chapter 2!
fun fact
Bendy has had several crossovers including a Hello Neighbour crossover as well as the recent Henry Stickmen crossover with Innersloth. Bendy appears as an easter egg in the newer installment, "Completing the Mission" as a background character!
sad fact
On a rare occassion (rougly one in 4100) theMeatly in chapter 5 will have his sign which normally says "thank you" replaced with expletives of "f*** you." Pretty Innapropriate.
fact
bendy and the dark revival used to have a feature that was quickly removed. The game had a vent you could travel to in animation alley that would legitemately reveal the players exact coordinates. This was removed due to several streamers being doxxed.
Fun Fact
If you make it all the way through BaTIM without being hit whilst getting all horror visions, you get a different ending. In this ending the game doesnt cycle but goes straight to the credits.
No one has attempted this yet, but modders have been able to trigger this.
retro fact!
The Gent Pipe is likely a reference to the hidden gem on the Nintendo Entertainment System, "Super Mario Bros." This game has a green pipe in it, this is similar to the Gent Pipe.
musical fact
Sammy's song "The lighter side of Hell" has sheet music you can see all over chapter 2. If you were to play this, this is what it would sound like. (if played through a random soundfont)
odd fact
In 2020, the 'Bendy Blend' coffee beans were sold on the bendy merch store. In 1/100 of the original coffee bags sold there would be radioactive. It came in a limited edition, unique green bag. Approximately 4 different families had to be quarantined because of this.
bday fact
April 25th is canonically Joey Drew's birthday! This is proven by the "The Lost Ones" book as well as Joey Drew's Calendar. As Joey Drew famously said in 1946 "I said, can i get a happy birthday?"
Wish Joey a happy bday in the comments!!
scary fact
This was found in the leaked
#BendyTHECAGE
press kit. This is probably the meatly or Mike Desjardins fucked up and evil version of Steamboat willie. Similar to the themes of Bendy the Cage.
fun fact.
The original bendy chapter took an entire decade to create. This is because theMeatly made it by himself and got distracted by the Nintendo. He has a comic about this on his page.
fact
The first piece of bendy merch ever released on the bendy store was a mysterious item with no picture named "bendy bong." It sold out in minutes and sold for exactly $40.14 This was never commented on by Joey Drew Studios. We have no pictures besides the listing.
fun fact.
Bendy and The Ink Machine is originally based off of a NES game called "Doki Doki Ink Machine!" Most of the colour pallete is inspired by the limited colours of this game as well as the iconic "Akuma" character which would become the Bendy series mascot.
rude fact
In a recent update (1.5.1) the seeing tool message “i always fall” was replaced with the message “you fell off.” This was the first update since late 2019.
cool fact
Originally bendy had two circles on his gloves. This was changed to a shape that resembles a badass skull. This was likely changed to prevent lawsuits with disney over their character "Mickey Mouses"
revival fact
In chapter 2 there are cardboard cutouts that respawn when broken. Sammys model is loaded behind the player when they arent looking and this is the game object that fixes the cutouts. He doesnt have any unique animation for this, so he is in a t-pose.
Fun fact
Bendy and The Ink Machine's files contains a texture of sammy that is not present in the actual game. This features his mask being replace with a smiley yellow ball. This may not have been used due to copyright.
bendy fact
The Projectionists whole design is actually based off of the meatlys love for the alternitive band "radio head." Originally instead of a projector, norman was meant to have a radio for a head but this was ultimatley scrapped due to the meatly disliking their new music.
vocal bendy fact
In bendy there has been many youtuber voice cameos such as JackSepticEye, Scott Wozniak and Dawko! But They planned for more voices for Dark revival, one being Matpat "Game Theory" who declinded due to his loyalty to starring in "The Roblox Doors"
Fun fact:
Joey Drew's real world model is actually a background asset from "The Polar Express (2004)" Joey Drew Studios were given permission to use the model just a month before the 5th chapter of batim released.
There is many weird secrets in Boris and the Dark Survival. One of these is a reference to the internet comic ctrl+alt+del. There is the "loss" comic referenced in the peep hole. This is only obvious when looking at the order of the images in the files.
AWFUL fact
In the original builds of bendy and the ink machine, the font widely used in the game was Microsoft's 'Comic Sans.' This was later swapped out for the font 'Caviar Dreams' and 'DK Black Bamboo'
souper fact
Reportedly theMeatly drank 50 cans of bacon soup a day to prepare for his role of Henry Stein in Bendy and the Ink Machine. This is why the sound of drinking soup in Bendy and the Ink Machine sounds so realistic!
awesome fact
in the administration there is a board which hides two easter eggs. One being "That puppet guy" that is likely a reference to theMeatly. The other reference is the name fortnite which is theMeatly's favourite game from 2017.
sad fact
The reason why we havent had a lot of unused textures for bendy is because they have been censoring the files from us by drawing over them. Fortunately theMeatly is really bad at censoring these files.
Weird bendy fact
in both bendy games there used to be variants of a “wandering sin” these were quietly removed in a recent patch. when asked in an interview about this, theMeatly seemed disgruntled and wanted to go to the next question.
Interesting fact
In the files for the nintendo switch port of the game is the song Take on Me by Aha. It is the full song and the only difference is the music video is in the sepia colourscheme bendy has. To avoid copyright I cannot play this.
tiny bendy fact
Bendy and the ink machine was originally mean to feature an "ant mode." This allowed the player to walk around the map and playthrough bendy at the size of an ant. There are Scraps and files related to this left in the code and have had attempts to be rebuilt.
merch fact
A piece of merch we were never given was the original employee handbook. This was a 3 hour long playthrough printed with every frame. We only ever got a concept image of the book. It was probably changed because 648 thousand pages was too much for each book.
fun fact
theMeatly originally envisioned Henry Stein (The Player) as much slower than he currently is. Mike Mood was against this, the meatly kept sneakily changing the speed down hoping it wasnt noticed before a chapter released. This made it into the chapter 4 release.
bendy fact
Shipahoy dudley originally was supposed appear a lot more in dark revival in a similar way to the toon bendy. Joey Drew Studios learned that people stopped playing the plot and just hung out with shipahoy dudley, as he is so joyous. This was cut.
funny fact
The
@bendy
twitter account is one of the many accounts Elon Musk is paying twitter blue for. JD Studios refused to pay the $8 and Elon reportedly teared up saying "This is what needs to be done, and if they wont step up, I will."
Rumoured fact
Reportedly the meatly tried getting into contact with “eminem” to make a credits song for bendy the dark revival. Sources say meatly only recently realised he wrote the ‘wrong email.’
ink-tresting fact
The playable character in bendy and the ink machine is referred to as henry. In bendy and the dark revival the playable characters name changes to audrey.
This may imply Joey Drew Studios are lazy and forgot about Henry Ink Machine.
fun fact
In the games final level, players can find a hidden ink machine that can only be accessed by using Sammy's Secret Ability. Once players enter the room, theyll find a secret area filled with various easter eggs and references to the game's development team.
cool fact
bendy and the ink machine has gone on to be the highest selling video game of all time. This is followed by boris and the dark survival and then bendy and the dark revival. This is actually a recent trend. These numbers shot up yesterday. Source:
obscure fact
The most unknown Bendy character is the "Dumba** The Hog" character from the Bendy short "Cheap Seats." He is pictured only in this scene on the left. The idea is that this is the only character Joey Drew has designed himself
Weird bendy fact
Bendy has stolen fan art to be used in game numerous times without repercussions. One example of this is art of bendy with a umbrella drawn by poppy may. You can see it stolen in game on the right.
historical fact
In 2020, YouTube gamer and musician DAGames famously gave the Pope a steam code for Boris and the Dark Survival as he thought the game represented the same themes of forgiveness and compassion that the Pope alluded to in a speech he made earlier in the year.
Sammy took over the hot topic twitter account in 2017 as a tie in with Hot Topic and JD Studios. This crossover had many interesting lore drops. One of the more intresting is revealing Sammy is aware of the hit 2017 song "Mask Off" by Future.
bendy fact
Bendy and The Dark Revival was originally was supposed to have Wilson just being the G-Man. The voice actor agreed but sadly due to budget cuts was laid off the team. Scraps of this crossover still exist in the game hoever, such as this poster and the Widow enemies.
Before dark revival released, teasers in the form of letters were posted to the various social media accounts for bendy. These letters overall spelt out the phrase "bendy is among us" Fans believed this was a tease to The Among us Game but no explanation was given.
vocal bendy fact
In bendy there has been many youtuber voice cameos such as JackSepticEye, Scott Wozniak and Dawko! But They planned for more voices for Dark revival, one being Matpat "Game Theory" who declinded due to his loyalty to starring in "The Roblox Doors"
fun fact
Bendy and The Ink Machine has a scene which is very similar to a scene in Garten of Banban 2 where the player is knocked out. This was actually because Garten of Banban 2 inspired Bendy and The Ink Machine Chapter 2!