Trivia / Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion

• Author's Saving Throw:
  • After the lackluster reception of the original Specimen 10, the developers decided to replace it with a much more dangerous and terrifying Specimen. There is even a little Take That! to the previous Specimen 10 by the new one literally bursting out of its head when the old one tries to attack you. Word of God admitted that the original design of Specimen 10 was the result of them running out of ideas.
  • Specimen 8 is considered one of the best specimens in terms of its design and theme, but was rather disappointing in gameplay due to functionally being a copy of Specimen 4, as an incorporeal Specimen with no tricks beyond some minor Interface Screw, but even slower and weaker. The Halloween 2021 update gave it the ability to use portals to warp directly to you if you lose its line of sight, making it much easier for Specimen 8 to catch up to you.
• Crossdressing Voices:
  • The female Spooky and Specimen 4 are voiced by the non-binary Akuma Kira.
  • Specimen 8, who is referred to with the masculine title of the Deer Lord in the credits and implied that it was once a male human in Lost in Vivo is voiced by Akuma Kira's sister-in-law, Jessie N.
• Development Gag: Doing the CAT-DOS Easter Egg will give you four new Specimens to look at, and two of them, "the Mattress Man" and "the Dolphin Man", were based on old creations from one of Akuma Kira's Garry's Mod episodic maps, "Shadows". "Lines", meanwhile, takes from Space Blaster, a game by the developers which partially inspired Spooky's Jumpscare Mansion.
• Easter Egg: A lot of these exist. Notably, Akuma Kira has revealed the existence of a pretty hidden one, involving various CAT-DOS entries.
• Post-Release Retitle: Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion was originally called Spooky's House of Jump Scares, but Akuma Kira was forced to change it when German mobile game developer Spooky House Studios wanted to trademark "Spooky House" and sent them a cease-and-desist order. They were so unamused by it that they changed the logo by just covering parts of the titles in tape and writing the new name in them.
• Schedule Slip: The initial February 17, 2017 release date for the HD Renovation edition was changed to the 24th, because the creators didn't want to release an unfinished product. It was then released on the first of March 2017 instead.
• Uncredited Role: Oddly enough, Unknown Specimen 4, or Tirsiak, isn't given a proper voice credit for her role, and it remains unknown who actually voiced her.
• What Could Have Been:
  • At one point Akuma Kira uploaded potential Specimen 4 appearances on their DeviantArt. Aside from the one that was made official and a slightly edited version, two of them featured Full-Frontal Assault (with Barbie Doll Anatomy and one of them having inverted colors).
  • The developers considered outright removing the original Specimen 10. They opted to instead turn it into a Bait-and-Switch Boss.
  • The hospital's Deformity Wing once had a purpose. In New Game+, a portal could be found there, and by throwing the sword into it, the sword could be unlocked for Endless Mode. This was scrapped from the OG version due to Game Maker's limitations, though it may be implemented into HD at some point.
• Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things: Fans wouldn't stop bugging the devs about adding a monster based on the Fazbear animatronics, so they deliberately made it bad just to spite them.

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