Mutate Incident

Mutate Incident, formerly known as "Numberblocks Basics: The Mutate Incident", is one of the games on the Numberblocks Basics franchise.

## History

* A Scratch user called "joshua91682" created a few projects about a Numberblocks Basics fangame he calls "Numberblocks Basics: The Mutate Incident".
* On December 16th 2018, he posted a project called "progress", which includes Mutated One, along with Mutated Two and Puppet Three. It is in the 2.0 editor, since the 3.0 editor wasn't a thing until 2019.
* On the same day, he posted a project which is supposedly the "Extras" of the game. It shows the same 3 characters from before, along with 3 more characters, called "Fake Four", "Puppet 98" and "Withered Birthday Two". Jumpscares are also included. All the characters except Fake Four" and "Withered Birthday Two" has a jumpscare. (One, Two and Three have Pulverizer's jumpscare from Basics 5, while Puppet 98 has L's jumpscare from Alphablocks Basics.)
* Joshua then posted a voting system for people to decide which character should appear in Mutate Incident. JayWaddington04, the creator of the Numberblocks Basics series, chose 2 characters, called "Withered Five" and "Reaper Radical Eight", with the former later appearing in "Numberblocks Basics 7".
* On January 23rd 2019, the 2nd anniversary of Numberblocks, Joshua posted a project with a remastered Withered Birthday Two, made for "Nightmare Alive".
* 3 days later, he posted a picture of another Puppet 98 jumpscare, with the "Fun Times at Homer's" jumpscare but high-pitched.

* After that, for a whole year, there were no updates about Mutate Incident, and it was likely that the game was cancelled, since the characters were moved to other games.
* When Jay posted a project of his updated Birthday Numberblock sprites, joshua91682 remixed it, and replaced them with the characters from the cancelled "Mutate Incident" game. When Jay discovered it, he decided to revive the game.
* On January 11th 2020, Jay published the rebooted version of "Mutate Incident" onto Scratch with 6 nights, a custom night and 15 characters.

## Differences between the original and rebooted versions

* In the original game, One and Two need clicking on in order to get rid of them. In the rebooted version, One and Two require the gas button.
* Puppet Three, Fake Four and Withered Birthday Two weren't in the original build of the game.
* Withered Birthday Two's name was shortened to "Witherday" in the rebooted game so it will take less time to type.
* 10 characters who never appeared at all in the original game appeared in the rebooted version.
	+ Dadtrap
	+ Soultrap
	+ Ghosttrap
	+ Withered Toy One
	+ Withered Toy Two
	+ Withered Toy Four
	+ Withered Toy Five
	+ El Nombre
	+ SpringThree
	+ Fantasy
* The rebooted game's office is in more of a reddish colour scheme than the original game's office.
* The jumpscares in the rebooted game are more faster-paced and less time consuming than in the original game.
* The jumpscare sounds are unique to every character.
* A cutscene of Witherday, and a cutscene of Plushi and Gloomy Wunsie were added, hinting a sequel.
* Several characters were renamed.
	+ Mutated One --> **Mutant One**
	+ Mutated Two --> **Mutant Two**
	+ Fake Four --> **Four**
	+ Withered Birthday Two --> **Witherday**
* Withered Five ended up not appearing in the rebooted version. Withered Toy Five acts as a substitute though.
* There is a custom night in the rebooted game, which is where the 10 additional characters are exclusive in.

## Trivia

* This game suffered the same fate as "Tubbyland Return", as it had gotten cancelled by the original developer, and was recreated from scratch by a team of people.
* Witherday goes through the Beta Birthday Two appearance instead of his current appearance for unknown reasons.
* Birthday One, Birthday Three, Birthday Four, Plushi and Gloomy Wunsie appear, but the former 3 appear as posters and the latter 2 appear in cutscenes.
	+ In fact, all the Birthdays appear in Mutate Incident except for Pentangle.
		- Birthday One, Birthday Three and Birthday Four appear on posters, and Birthday Two appears as Witherday.
* The Toy Numberblocks from "Five Jobs at Stack Shack" ended up returning, but withered. Toy Three is missing, and that is because there needed to be room for Fantasy, so Toy Three ended up getting canned from the game in favour of Fantasy.
* Jolly, George, Maxie and Tweetie from "JOLLY" appear in the game as Fantasy, a mashup of the 4 characters. IvanG was credited.
* El Nombre and Numberjack Three appear in the game as animatronics in the custom night.
* Mr. Two appears as Dadtrap, and Soul and Ghost return as Soultrap and Ghosttrap respectively.
* This means that the entire "McHides" family appear in the game.
* Four is the only Numberblock to not be mutated or withered, besides his left eye.
* Fake Four might be a resemblance to Birthday Four.