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( October 2017 ) Bendy and the Ink Machine Developer ( s ) TheMeatly Games Publisher ( s ) TheMeatly Games Designer ( s ) TheMeatly Programmer ( s ) Mike Mood Artist ( s ) TheMeatly Writer ( s ) TheMeatly Engine Unity Platform ( s ) Linux macOS Microsoft Windows Release Chapter One WW : February 10, 2017 Chapter Two WW : April 18, 2017 Chapter Three WW : September 28, 2017 Chapter Four WW : TBA Chapter Five WW : TBA Genre ( s ) Survival horror Mode ( s ) Single - player Bendy and the Ink Machine is an episodic survival horror video game developed and published by TheMeatly Games. The game focuses on Henry, the protagonist, a retired animator, who returns to the old studio he worked at upon an invitation from his old colleague, studio owner Joey Drew, and discovering numerous secrets about the abandoned studio, while being hunted down by Bendy, an ink monster that resembles the company 's most popular character. The game 's first chapter, Moving Pictures, was released for Linux, macOS and Microsoft Windows via Game Jolt on February 10, 2017, with a second chapter, The Old Song, together with a remastered version of the first one, following on April 18, 2017. After the game succeeded in its Steam Greenlight campaign on February 28, 2017, both available chapters were released onto Steam on April 27, 2017. The third chapter, Rise and Fall, was released on September 28, 2017, and a total of five chapters are planned. Mike Mood, the programmer, describes the game as an `` accidental success. '' Contents 1 Plot 1.1 Chapter One : Moving Pictures 1.2 Chapter Two : The Old Song 1.3 Chapter Three : Rise and Fall 2 Characters 2.1 Henry 2.2 Bendy 2.3 Boris 2.4 Alice Angel 2.5 Sammy Lawrence 2.6 The Searchers 2.7 The Swollen Searchers 2.8 The Projectionist 2.9 Piper 2.10 Fisher 2.11 Striker 3 References 4 External links Plot This section has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. ( Learn how and when to remove these template messages ) This section may need to be rewritten entirely to comply with Wikipedia 's quality standards. You can help. The discussion page may contain suggestions. ( June 2017 ) This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( June 2017 ) Chapter one : Moving Pictures The player plays as Henry, an animator, who gets an invitation to his old workplace, an animation studio called Joey Drew Studios, by the eponymous owner and Henry 's old friend, Joey Drew. Upon arriving, the place seems deserted and run through with ink pipes. While exploring, Henry finds the Ink Machine, as well as evidence that Joey began practicing with the occult. He also finds a mutilated corpse of Boris the Wolf, one of the cartoon characters appearing in Joey 's cartoon posters. After finding the power switch to the Ink Machine, he looks for the six items ( a Bendy doll, a record, a wrench, a book, an inkwell, and a cog ) needed to activate the ink pressure system. Upon restoring the ink pressure and activating the Ink Machine, Henry is attacked by a living ink version of another one of the cartoon characters named Bendy. Henry runs to the exit but falls into a secret underground room as the floor collapses. He then uses an ax to break into another room with a pentagram painted on the ground with ink. Upon approaching the pentagram, Henry gets flashbacks of the Ink Machine, a wheelchair and `` Bendy '' before passing out. Chapter two : the old song Upon waking up, Henry begins to find more evidence of Drew and musical director Sammy Lawrence performing in Satanic rituals. Apparently stuck in the studio, Lawrence went insane and began worshiping Bendy as a form of appeasement, believing that the cartoon devil is a literal demon. Using an axe to help clear a path through the underground rooms, Henry ends up in the Music Department of the studio by following tracks through recordings to find his way out. While trying to escape, he encounters the Searchers, who are humanoid ink monsters that try to kill Henry. After pressing three buttons to open a gate, he comes across a pool of ink flooding a staircase and locates the drain switch in Lawrence 's office, which is blocked by a large puddle of ink. Henry finds the key to a closet in a trash can and learns that he must play Lawrence 's favorite song to open the way to the drain value. Once the way to Lawrence 's office is clear, Henry is finally able to drain the flooded staircase, but is knocked unconscious by Lawrence. Lawrence ties up Henry and explains that he has to sacrifice Henry to get `` Bendy '' to release him from his ink body and return him to normal. When `` Bendy '' arrives, he attacks and kills Lawrence instead, and eventually chases after Henry. After getting away, Henry finds a living version of Boris the Wolf as the chapter ends. After the credits, the player is shown Sammy Lawrence 's remains : a puddle of ink with his mask in the middle. Chapter three : Rise and Fall In Chapter Three, Henry wakes up in a safe room ; upon exiting the room and turning a corner, he sees Boris. In order to leave Boris ' safe - house, Henry needs to find three cans of soup and make them for Boris, after which he will supply Henry with the lever handle required to open the door. As Henry and Boris leave the safe - house, Henry finds a flashlight to help find their way through a dark room eventually reach a dead end, and Boris crawls through a small hatch that closes behind him. Henry enters a large room with a sign titled ' Heavenly Toys ', and as he keeps walking, he enters a smaller room, which abruptly goes dark. Alice Angel suddenly appears, smashes the glass window of a space at the back of the room, and then escapes into the studio. He later catches up to Boris, who hands him a pipe to use as a weapon. After opening a gate and reaching an elevator, Alice Angel invites Henry and Boris down to level 9, where she has set up residence. There, they discover many Boris corpses. After witnessing her killing one of the forms of a member of the Butcher Gang, she instructs Henry to complete a series of tasks for her while providing him with tools to help him, such as a wrench, an ink syringe, a plunger, an axe, and a tommy gun, ( which is only obtainable by making the ink bowl from an ink machine ( by Shawn Flynn 's voice tape ), choosing the Path of the Demon at the crossroads, and avoiding death until you are offered the tommy gun ). The tasks consist of finding special gears, collecting gobs of extra thick ink from the Swollen Searchers, obtaining power cores from valve boxes, destroying Bendy cutouts ( in which he must then run from `` Bendy '', who does n't like his cutouts being destroyed as warned by `` Alice '' ), fighting off the `` Butcher Gang '' who are trying to get to Alice 's room, and getting five ink hearts from the very bottom floor, where the Projectionist resides. Once these tasks are completed, Alice will allow him to leave. The number of items to collect are random. However, Boris unfortunately gets on the lift with Henry, and Alice brings the lift plummeting down, screaming that Henry has robbed her of the Boris that she needs to become `` beautiful '' again. Once the lift reaches the floor level 9, Alice Angel appears, walking towards an unsuspecting Boris as he attempts to revive an unconscious Henry, and she pulls him away into her lair, ending the chapter. There are two paths to choose in the chapter : choosing the Path of the Angel causes an Alice Angel teaser to appear, which shows Boris tied up, an axe lying on the table, and Alice Angel 's shadow on the wall. If Henry chooses the Path of the Demon, `` Bendy '' is shown in an ink - filled room with the `` Butcher Gang '' enemies ( Piper, Fisher, and Striker ) and a Searcher. Characters This section may need to be rewritten entirely to comply with Wikipedia 's quality standards. You can help. The discussion page may contain suggestions. ( October 2017 ) Henry Henry is the main protagonist of the game. He is a retired cartoonist and animator who used to work with Joey Drew at his workshop 30 years prior to the beginning of the game 's story. The opening cut scene in the game shows a letter that Henry received from Drew, where he reminisces about their time making cartoons together. Drew finishes off inviting Henry to visit the studio once more with the mention of having `` something '' he needs to show him. Henry sets the game in motion by visiting the old workshop, as requested by Drew, and getting trapped in it. He is voiced by TheMeatly. Due to the game having a first - person perspective, Henry 's physical appearance is yet to be shown in - game, and little is learned about his psychological traits other than he is concerned and dismayed by the state of the workshop and is shocked by the thought of Drew having had a hand in it. From his tone when voicing his reaction to events, it is also suggested that he has some resistance to being surprised. It is also worth noting that, shortly after encountering Bendy for the first time, Henry begins having fast, blurry flashbacks of Bendy and the rituals before falling unconscious and setting in motion the second chapter of the story. Bendy During the events of the three chapters of the story this far, it is heavily implied that, for reasons yet unknown, Drew and other close employees began dabbling in occult magic and dark rituals that resulted in Bendy coming to life as a humanoid monster whose physical body is made mostly of ink. Evidence of this includes cardboard cutouts of Bendy littered around pentagrams in multiple rooms, as well as a room with coffins, a substance that appears to be blood, and more pentagrams in it. In addition to his frightening appearance, Bendy 's presence has apparently resulted in the entire animation studio becoming haunted, leading to paranormal activity and the animation of both shapeless monsters ( which act as enemies that the player must defeat to progress ), and other characters from his cartoon show. So far, whenever Bendy appears ink begins to pour down from the walls and a chase begins where the player must rush to an available exit before Bendy catches up, an event that would lead to an instant Game Over. Bendy is yet to speak in - game and appears only in certain parts of the story, so very little is shown about his psychological characteristics other than his apparently aggressive behavior. So far, all characters that make contact with him are presumed to be killed in an unspecified fashion, although in Sammy Lawrence 's case, he is implied to have been melted into a puddle of ink by a post-credits cutscene in Chapter 2. Due to his enigmatic background, Bendy 's motives are yet to be officially revealed, although most fans theorize ( and a few pieces of evidence in the game appear to support this ) that Bendy is driven by a grudge against his own creator for having `` betrayed '' him. It is also theorized that Bendy is actually Joey Drew. Boris A secondary character from Bendy 's show, Boris is an anthropomorphic wolf that bears considerable resemblance to Disney 's Goofy. In Bendy 's cartoon show, it is suggested ( from the promotional posters around Joey Drew 's studio ) that Boris and Bendy share a rival - like relationship. Within the game 's story, shortly after entering the studio Henry comes across the corpse of a real - life Boris tied to a table with his chest cavity torn open ( complete with ink - black `` blood '' dripping out, and a pair of `` X '' instead of eyes ) and a message on the wall that reads `` who 's laughing now ? ''. At the end of Chapter 2, a fully alive and unharmed Boris appears before Henry after the cartoonist managed to escape Bendy for the second time. It is currently unknown whether Boris came to life alongside Bendy, or whether his animation was accidental. It is implied in Chapter 3 that the Boris corpse from Chapter 1 was, in fact, a different Boris, as Alice Angel has been harvesting Boris clones for their parts, hoping to use them to recreate her body. This also implies that he is the last remaining Boris. It is worth noting that, unlike Bendy, Boris 's real - life appearance is identical to his cartoon depiction. In Chapter 3, Boris seems friendly and almost helpful to Henry until he disappears at the end when Alice kidnaps him to use for her recreation. Alice Angel Another character from Bendy 's cartoon show, Alice Angel is a young woman who acts as a supportive character in the show. Alice Angel 's model first appeared in chapter three. Alice Angel is apparently based on the cartoon trope of the protagonist 's girlfriend being taller and proportionally more attractive than the protagonist himself, a theme that can be seen in the case of cartoons like Roger Rabbit, Felix the Cat or Betty Boop ( from Fleischer Studios ). Alice Angel makes her debut in chapter three of Bendy and the Ink Machine, as an imperfect, angel / demon hybrid, who at first seems to be a benevolent taskmaster, but becomes vengeful once she discovers the iteration of Boris she needs is going up in the lift with Henry, whom she has allowed to return to the outside world. After she and the protagonist, Henry, first meet, she sends him on a series of missions, in order to collect certain items for her. Alice seems to fear the Searchers and the other creatures wandering the studio, claiming they if they touch her, she will get dragged back into the ink that she had spawned from. One of the rooms of her lair contains multiple mutilated corpses of Boris the wolf, the hearts of which Alice has taken to give herself the shape that she has desired. It is implied that she is really her former voice actress, Susie Campbell, who was transformed like Sammy Lawrence and Norman Polk. If the player chooses the Path of the Angel at the crossroads, it is revealed in an audio log that Campbell was replaced by a woman named Allison Pendle to play the voice of Alice Angel, which makes her extremely depressed. At the end of the chapter, Boris is seen being taken away by Alice Angel for her recreation. Sammy Lawrence Sammy Lawrence is the lead music composer for Bendy 's cartoon show. Within Joey Drew 's workshop, Lawrence worked alongside other musicians in a music room to add soundtracks, music and songs to Bendy 's show and had his own office that he enjoyed isolating himself in. He is voiced by Aaron Landon. In Chapter two, Sammy makes his appearance as an antagonist who worships Bendy as a true demon and sees him as his `` savior '', going so far as to trap Henry and attempts to sacrifice him in order to appease Bendy. For unknown reasons, after being summoned by Lawrence, Bendy ends up assaulting and presumably killing him instead of going for Henry, an event that takes place off camera and is evidenced by Lawrence 's screams and pleas of mercy. Lawrence 's physical appearance in - game is shown as an ink - black humanoid figure wearing heavily stained overalls and the face of a cardboard Bendy cutout as a mask. Whether his appearance is unintended or is the result of his insane zealotry for Bendy is unknown. It is also unknown if he was actually human when introduced, as earlier in - game he was shown to disappear from sight, but it is implied that may have been human before he was turned into an ink humanoid figure. At the end of the chapter, a screenshot of Sammy Lawrence as an ink puddle with a mask beside it is shown, indicating that Sammy is dead. The Searchers The Searchers are humanoid figures made of animated ink that appear throughout the game in attempt to attack Henry. Contact with them damages Henry, resulting in a Game Over if he sustains too much damage. They have no discernible facial features and lack lower bodies, forcing them to creep at Henry in order to attack him. Searchers disguise themselves as ink puddles that become hostile when approached and appear during certain parts of the story. In order to kill them, Henry must use his weapon to fight them, causing them to collapse and then reform at the location where they first spawned. After collapsing enough times, they disappear completely. The Searchers are, so far, the only standard enemies found in the game. Their origin and reason for their behavior are unknown, although most fans theorize that they are the reanimated remains of Joey Drew 's studio employees that were dissolved into ink and are being controlled by Bendy 's demonic presence. The Swollen Searchers In Chapter 3, one of the missions from Alice Angel will be to collect extra thick ink with the ink syringe from these monsters on level 11. Their appearance is similar to their original counterparts, except they are slightly larger and covered with large lumps. Unlike other enemies, they do not harm Henry. The Projectionist The Projectionist is a monster who has a projector for a head. It is actually the remains of Norman Polk, the lead projectionist working at Joey Drew Studios. The Projectionist 's domain is the very bottom level of the studio, Level 14, but it is n't confined to the area, and will roam throughout the studio aimlessly. It will chase after Henry if he is seen in its light. Unlike the other, more human members of the studio, The Projectionist can be killed. Upon killing the Projectionist, the player will receive an achievement titled ' Norman 's Fate. ' It is also possible that all of the employees have something to do with one of the ink monsters like the Projectionist. Norman Polk aka The Projectionist can be killed by using a tommy gun ( which is only obtainable by making the ink bowl from an ink machine ( by Shawn Flynn 's voice tape ), choosing the Path of the Demon at the crossroads, and avoiding death will allow the player to gain the tommy gun ). Piper A member of the Butcher Gang. His real name is Charley. Fisher A member of the Butcher Gang. His real name is Barley. Striker A member of the Butcher Gang. His real name is Edgar. References Jump up ^ TheMeatly Games ( February 10, 2017 ). `` We did it ! ! WE ARE GREENLIT ! ! ''. Steam. Valve Corporation. Retrieved June 26, 2017. Jump up ^ https://twitter.com/ZeroLogics/status/895311303425839104 Jump up ^ https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/TylerMcAuleyVallier/20170711/301391/The_CoCreator_of_Bendy_and_the_Ink_Machine_Talks_Accidental_Success.php External links Official website Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bendy_and_the_Ink_Machine&oldid=807986348 '' Categories : 2017 video games Episodic video games Fictional characters who have made pacts with devils Horror video games Linux games MacOS games Single - player video games Video games developed in Canada Windows games Hidden categories : Wikipedia articles with plot summary needing attention from October 2017 All Wikipedia articles with plot summary needing attention Articles needing additional references from October 2017 All articles needing additional references Use mdy dates from September 2017 Use American English from June 2017 All Wikipedia articles written in American English Articles using Infobox video game using locally defined parameters Articles using Wikidata infoboxes with locally defined images Wikipedia articles needing rewrite from June 2017 All articles needing rewrite Articles needing additional references from June 2017 Wikipedia articles needing rewrite from October 2017 Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia Talk Contents About Wikipedia Español Italiano Português Русский Edit links This page was last edited on 31 October 2017, at 05 : 34. 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Question: who do you play as in bendy and the ink machine
Answer: Henry