In the girls dorm, each room has a small white-board students can write on. On the board for room 217, somebody wrote "REDRUM" and Max mutters, "No way in hell I'm going in there!" This is a reference to Stephen King's novel "The Shining".
Due to a character's mental health and the decision(s) that the player can influence, a message has been put in that directs the player to the Life Is Strange website that will refer a person anti-bullying phone numbers world wide.
The original title was "What If."
Before Square Enix accepted the game, it was presented to seven different publishers. All seven of them rejected it, especially because DONTNOD Entertainment didn't agree with their request to change the main character to a male. Square Enix on the other hand was the only publisher that didn't request such a change.
Each chapter or episode has 10 optional photo achievements/trophies. This is also the number of photos contained in a pack of Polaroid film.