Window Haunts: Live Halloween Window Decorations
A downloadable tool for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Point a TV, monitor or projector at a window, wall or doorway and let the house haunt itself.
Window Haunts is a set of 8 spooky scenes that run in your browser. Double-click one file and you're done. No install, no account, no internet, no subscription. Everything is drawn live, so nothing is a short video on repeat and you never see a loop point.
The 8 scenes
- Window Ghosts: pale ghosts drift past, and big ones peek in from the edges.
- Silhouette Party: monsters, a witch and a cat dance behind the curtains.
- Pumpkin Patch Faces: four jack-o-lanterns flicker, talk and sing along to the sound.
- Bat Swarm: a flock crosses a full moon.
- Spider Drop: a spider lowers itself on a thread, then maybe runs for it.
- Graveyard Fog: drifting mist, crooked stones and hands rising from the ground.
- Eyes in the Dark: glowing eyes blink in the black and watch whoever moves.
- Haunted Portrait: a gold-framed face slowly changes into someone else.
Each scene has a calm loop and a scare burst.
Built for the yard
- Bright on pure black, so it reads through a sheer curtain or on a blank wall from across the street.
- Mirror mode for rear projection through a window.
- Playlist, single scene or shuffle. Pick how often scares happen.
Let the trick-or-treaters set it off
Plug in a webcam and turn on the motion trigger. Walk up the path and the scene throws its scare and a sound. Choose the area it watches, the sensitivity and the cooldown. The camera picture is compared in memory only; nothing is recorded or sent anywhere. No camera? Press space, an arrow key, or a presentation clicker button.
Sound
Wind, moans, cackles, creaks and thunder, all made live in the browser. Volume, mute and a scares-only mode. Kid-friendly by default, with a Spookier switch for older crowds.
What you need
- A computer with Chrome or Edge (Windows, Mac or Linux)
- A screen or projector, and a window or wall
- Optional: a webcam and a sheer white curtain
Not affiliated with any other Halloween decoration brand. All scenes and sounds are drawn and generated by code made for this product.
Purchase
In order to download this tool you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $9.99 USD. You will get access to the following files:
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I would love to be able to generate my own animations like this one could you let me know if you could construct a software to enable this.
Thanks! Window Haunts doesn't have a scene editor yet, but I'm open to building one, or to custom animations for your window. What would you want to make: your own characters, your own images, or tweaks to the existing scenes?
Thanks for replying, I would like an editor that can bring my characters and images in, so as to change projections for other artistic purposes. So perhaps mp4 or P.N.G. even an O.B.J. if that's possible.
That sounds doable! Quick question to scope it: would PNG and MP4 cover what you need? Those are the simpler partS. You’d bring in your own characters and clips, place and size them, add motion like floating or fading, and fit the picture to whatever surface you’re projecting onto.
OBJ (3D models) is possible too, but it’s a bigger piece of work.
in build time at least it would be about 2 to 3 days for PNG and MP4, plus a couple more days if you want OBJ.
Do you have a budget in mind for a project like this? That’ll help me figure out the best way to put it together for you. I'm not sure how much demand there is for something like this outside your use case.
Obj is not that important otherwise it sounds fine, I just wanted to play around with this software.