Bendy and the Ink Machine

They needed a reason to laugh, and thus animation exploded onto the scene.

I mean, sure, animation had been around since 1900, and if you really wanna get technical, could date back as far as the invention of the thaumatrope from 1825, but it was this era, the 1920s to the 1940s, when history entered what's known as the golden age of animation, and it's this world where we find ourselves in for today's theory, the world of Bendy and the Ink Machine.

Now, if you haven't been watching a lot of let's plays lately, this one might've slipped past you.

It's a small indie title told in five parts because at this point it's always five parts, with the first two currently available and a third one on the way shortly.

Their marketing smarts and location in California amongst the growing movie industry ultimately buried Fleischer's business and erased his name from the annals of animation history.

But what's any of this have to do with an incomplete indie game hit? Well, first, think about what you just heard.

Even with animation in its infancy, Max Fleischer's work with Out of the Inkwell was literally bringing animated characters into the real world, just like Joey Drew and his ink machine.

A man who literally wrote a book on bringing images to life, as we see in chapter one's The Illusion of Living.