r/thehauntedmansion

Making myself a haunted mansion inspired stained glass Photo Booth picture frame✨

Made myself a haunted mansion inspired stained glass Photo Booth picture frame✨

Hey r/IndieGame,

I’m Japhet, the developer of Scream Operator: Haunted House Manager. A cozy-spooky pixelart management game in which you are invited to take place in the control booth of a haunted house dark ride.

You can read everything about it, and wishlist the game on it's steampage here!

A few weeks ago, IGN exclusively revealed the game's first trailer,, which you can check out here!

In this game:

• You manage the full ride flow, from loading anxious guests to dispatching carts. You push the buttons and control it all.
• You must drag-and-drop props, lighting, and animatronics to design scares and raise your max Scare Score.
• You can unlock upgrades, new items and automate manual work (Expect staff, shops & snacks😏).
• and you can enjoy a great cozy/spooky atmosphere and a original composed soundtrack + a neat little origin story involving everyone you meet on your new work.

And great news! A free public demo is planned for this Halloween season, alongside Steam Next Fest 🎃.

I'm a solo developer, so any feedback on the atmosphere or mechanics is genuinely valuable to me. Let me know what you think, and if you have any questions or suggestions, also please feel free to hit me up in the comments below!

No Generative AI was used for the art, animations, code, or assets. All pixel art and mechanics were created by me and the artists I've worked with, and the soundtrack was composed by a great musician. 

Run to Lowe's! I had to take the display pig. All the others were already gone. (Mt. Laurel, NJ)

When I first got into the Haunted Mansion in early 2020, I remember the 2003 movie being something I explored top to bottom, mainly in regard to its costumes for the Ghosts.

And I remember one thing I wanted to do at the time, was to find a way to redesign some of the costumes, not cuz I didn’t like them (Mona May’s costumes are beyond a spectacle to me) but because I wanted to draw the characters from every corner of the franchise, a lil more historically accurate to whatever period the ghost emulates based on costume alone.

This particular lady (who you can see in the Graveyard scene having tea with the parasol gal) was one I’ve been trying to redesign numerous times before, but each attempt didn’t sit right with me, both because the style I had at the time wasn’t so polished and at worst, really bad. And cuz the internet’s a really difficult place to find good references for Fashion plates and clothing.

But now? Oh Apollo, I feel immensely vindicated in finally being able to do what I was unable to 6 years ago. And I’m really proud of the concept drawing I made.

Ps. I’m mainly doing this for fun and to scratch that fashion history itch I got.

Any thoughts?

Concept: The Ghost Host narrates the story of Constance and her first four husbands Ambrose, Frank, The Marquis, and Reginald all whom she kills. Then she marries George and moves into his (haunted) mansion where the ghosts of her husbands haunt her led by The Hatbox Ghost.

Ghost Host: Darren Criss
Constance Hatchaway: Megan Hilty
Ambrose Harper: Max Clayton
Frank Banks: Leslie Odom Junior
The Marquis de Doome: Raúl Esparza
Reginald Caine: Kevin Chamberlin
George Hightower: Ramin Karimloo
Madame Leota: Patti LuPone
The Hatbox Ghost: Patrick Page
The Caretaker: André De Shields
Ezra: David Josefsberg
Phineas: Josh Lamon
Gus: Peter Bartlett

Made a lock screen form this photo I took in the foyer of the Tokyo mansion

I know some of you would scoff at me and call me ignorant and say, "just because it's a video game where you explore a haunted house and fight ghost doesn't make it a ripoff". But I don't know maybe you're right and I'm just imposing my autistic Mario hyper fixation onto something that has nothing to do with it, and I wouldn't be lying if I said when I was younger that every time I went to Disney World I contemplated of bringing my Nintendo 3ds and play Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon while riding the attraction and almost did but I think it was my younger brother who caught me trying to play with my 3ds while boarding one of the doom buggies. (I might still have that idea in my head to bring my Nintendo Switch if I ever go back to either the magic kingdom or Disneyland and again attempt to play either Luigi's mansion 1 or 2 while riding the ride cause logistically I'd have to play 3 in the tower of terror since that game has you explore a haunted hotel.}

Haunted Mansion at Tokyo Disneyland

Let’s assume for a moment that you have no budget constraints of any kind. You’re allowed to do literally anything you want.

I think what I would do in such a situation is rearrange the loading area at Disneylands mansion to make room for some of the scenes WDW has that we don’t. The library, the piano room, and the endless staircases. Maybe even squeeze in the original version of the hallway where the portraits would watch you if possible.

Why does nobody ever seem to talk about the fact that the original hatbox ghost can be seen in behind the scenes/making of footage, of the haunted mansion from the Disneyland Showtime 1970 segment with Kurt Russell and the Osmonds? Everyone always geeks out over original hatbox ghost pictures or videos or lore, but I’ve never seen anybody post about this sighting here. The artist (forgive me for not knowing who….its very blurry) is literally using the hatbox as a stand for his paint cup.