r/hauntedattractions

Hello haunt nerds! I'm Thoosie - I'm a lifelong scare-actor and haunter with experience at Reign of Terror, Merlin Entertainments, Universal and more. I'm so excited to share my passion project of the past year or so - ScareZone: Haunted Attraction Tycoon. Our page is soft launching on Steam today.

If you've ever found yourself daydreaming about haunt capacity or throughput, plotting scare strategies or sketching layouts on a napkin - this is the game for you. Take an empty warehouse, field, or (dare I say) soundstage - and convert it into your own world of horrors - complete with scare actors, animatronics, and much more.

If this sounds like something you'd be interested in, please Wishlist us, and if you're really intrigued we'd love to have you as a playtester, please let me know in the comments or DM.

We also will be exhibiting at Spooky Empire in Orlando later this month, stop by and say boo if you're around.

u/thoosiedev — 10 days ago

I was just discussing with my wife about how I am really heartbroken I can’t make haunts my entire life all year and it occured to me: is there any jobs like this? I know I could learn to do prop making or do home haunts but that’s really financially stressful and I was wondering if there was similar options !

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u/andr0dyk3 — 14 days ago
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Hello,
I run a paranormal journalism page and would like to make some of the areas I report on a little more creepy for tourists. A lot of the areas that I report on are old, abandoned factories, mines, caves and cemeteries in the middle of the woods. One of my favorite things to do is wait for a group of people to be walking around in the downstairs of a factory and put on cowboy boots (because they have hard bottoms) and slowly walk on the upstairs of the factory, which would make loud audible footstep noises. I also like putting speakers in these buildings and playing different noises to scare visitors. I’m looking for any Scooby-Doo style ideas that might work in real life that would have people talking about what they encountered. The goal is to have more people engage in conversation and reading by experiencing something creepy. Thanks.

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u/Sasquatchplayer — 9 days ago
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I'm working on a spooky management sim where you design and operate your own dark ride.

Hey everyone,

After the overwelming positive response I received last time, I'd love to share the latest gameplay of the Haunted House Management Sim I'm building.

It's a cozy-creepy management sim where you design and operate your own haunted house dark ride. Instead of a regular god-mode view, you sit behind an industrial operator dashboard and personally manage the whole attraction. It has a detailed pixel-art style and a cuty & spooky atmosphere.

I'm currently working very hard to get a demo ready for Halloween season. If you like, you can find more info and screenshots on the Steam page:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4480080/Scream_Operator_Haunted_House_Manager/

No Generative AI was used for the art, animations, code or assets. All (pixel) art and mechanics are created by either me, or the great artists I've been working with on this adventure.

If there are any questions or ideas, feel free to hit me up! I'll be super happy to discuss in the comments.

u/ScreamOperatorDev — 2 days ago

What are some good international haunt attractions?

Hello I have a question are there any good haunt attractions outside of the USA? I been to countless American haunt attractions, I been to a couple in Canada and the UK, Australia and New Zealand, Ireland and Scotland those where an interesting contrast because even though they where all English speaking countries there where some cultural differences that you wouldn’t normally see in a lot American haunt attractions like an emphasis on more intimate and psychological horror rather then just straight up jumpscares ( Some American haunt attractions do that to but those are more adult oriented ones ) the most interesting contrast by far where haunt attractions in Japan those where just pure psychological and atmospheric horror and that was a refreshing thing to see rather then just jumpscares just slowly building up tension till you can’t take no more also the actors often ran directly at audience members too. That brought up a question in my mind on what are some good haunt attractions outside of the USA I always enjoy it when other countries do haunt attractions because the cultural differences are very fascinating to me and what are some countries that have a haunt attractions that you wouldn’t expect would have haunt attractions?

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u/Inside_Definition758 — 4 days ago