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The Fazbear Fanverse Initiative, also known simply as the Fazbear Fanverse, is a project created by Scott Cawthon on August 21, 2020 that is designed to collaborate with popular fan game creators to make their series' officially-endorsed Five Nights at Freddy's spin-offs.[1][2]
The project currently consists of a total of 5 video games (3 main series and 2 spin-offs) with more in-development.
Description[]
Cawthon's goal with this project is to support creators of some of the most popular Five Nights at Freddy's-inspired fan games out there. As such, he will help fund the development of new games for these series'. Along with that, some older games in the various series' will be remade due to the use of assets that were either copyrighted or made by uninvolved people. This must be done for another part of the project: releasing these series' for sale on console and mobile devices. Series' involved will also end up producing official merchandise, such as Youtooz collectibles and plush toys. More series' may be added to the project in the future depending on the success of the initial releases.
As far as his involvement, Cawthon said he is simply funding everything and letting the creators work on their projects and interact with the community at large as they normally would. While it is clear that the Fazbear Fanverse games are confirmed to be officially part of the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise as a whole,[1][3] they will remain in their own continuity and thus not canon to the story of any official continuities of the original Five Nights at Freddy's series.[4]
However, not all fangames will get officially-endorsed or licensed for the initiative due to copyrights, vulgar content, controversies surrounding their developers, etc.[1] Some games for example include: Five Nights at Treasure Island, Five Nights at Wario's, Dayshift at Freddy's, Five Nights at F**kboy's, etc.
Series[]
The Fazbear Fanverse art by POPGOES concept artist StupidButterfly.
Five Nights at Candy's[]
- Main article: Five Nights at Candy's (Series)
Five Nights at Candy's is an independent video game series created by Emil Macko. Macko plans to remake the original point-and-click trilogy of games and is developing the fourth and final game in the series. He is also developing a 2D spin-off adventure game, FNAC FUR. The series shares a canonical continuity with the POPGOES series.
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POPGOES[]
- Main article: POPGOES (Series)
POPGOES is an independent video game series created by Kane Carter. Carter is developing POPGOES Evergreen, a point-and-click survival horror game. He's also released the spin-offs POPGOES Arcade and myPOPGOES. The series shares a canonical continuity with the Five Nights at Candy's series.
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The Joy of Creation[]
- Main article: The Joy of Creation (Series)
The Joy of Creation is an independent video game series created by Nicodemo Sitá. Sitá is developing THE JOY OF CREATION, a reboot of The Joy of Creation: Story Mode.
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One Night at Flumpty's[]
- Main article: One Night at Flumpty's (Series)
One Night at Flumpty's is an independent video game series created by Jonathan "Jonochrome." The final entry released on October 31, 2021, ending the series. A console bundle was in development, but has seeming been postponed or canceled after a controversy regarding the developer.
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Five Nights at Freddy's Plus[]
- Main article: Five Nights at Freddy's Plus
Five Nights at Freddy's Plus was an independent video game being developed by Felipe Moraga. The game was being made as a remake/reimagining of the first Five Nights at Freddy's game. Following a controversy, Moraga announced his termination from the initiative on August 4, 2023; along with the game being delisted off the Steam store a day later. Over a year later, the game would be fully retired off Steam, finalizing its cancellation.
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Canceled/Considered[]
Below is a list of games that were either considered or were canceled before/after Scott saw the titles.
JOLLY[]
JOLLY is an indie point-and-click survival horror video game series created by Ivan "IvanG" Gonzales. The series was being considered for the Fazbear Fanverse; however, IvanG shared a teaser in a now-deleted X/Twitter post[5] before even responding to Scott on the deal. This post alerted the other developers of his involvement and prompted them to contact Scott to inform him about the teaser and the copyrighted material JOLLY is based on; this ultimately led to the series not being added to the initiative.
Aftonbuilt[]
Aftonbuilt was an indie action survival horror video game that was being developed by Jelatine. Upon sending in the final pitch demo to Scott Cawthon for review, even after positive reception, Scott saw the title as too big of a risk and decided to not sign them on the initiative. JeliLiam would reveal the project and release the pitch demo on April 12, 2022.[6][7]
Chomper's[]
Chomper's was an indie free-roam survival horror video game that was being developed by Cody "Ultranite" Hughes. The game was in development for half a year, but before Ultranite could get a finished pitch demo to send to Scott, they were removed from the initiative a week before signing NDA's. As it turned out, some of the developers were a part of a hacking group that leaked contact, and they leaked the game once they were exposed and fired, forcing Scott to remove the game from the initiative. The lead developer, Yu Ro, ended up canceling development afterwards and would upload most of the content the team made for the title on Game Jolt, along with the Fanverse pitch demo.[8]
CHASE: Animatronics[]
CHASE: Animatronics, under a new unknown title, is a pitch that was sent to Scott Cawthon in March 2021 by Team EKS. Carter would announce that the reboot's pitch was sent to Cawthon on March 29, 2021. The reboot would be an expanded, higher-quality version of the original game. The project has been silent, likely as the developers are working on their individual projects, and the status of the project in the Fanverse is unknown.[9] In August 2023, Carter, in a Game Jolt post about the Fanverse, mentioned the reboot was "quite likely" to join in the future.[10]
Social Media[]
These are are Fazbear Fanverse-focused social media accounts officially made by the Fanverse devs.
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Trivia[]
- This is the first time Scott has collaborated with creators who created popular Five Nights at Freddy's fangames.
- Scott may continue collaborating with more fangame creators if the initiative is successful at launch.
- The trailer for the mobile ports of One Night at Flumpty's was released early on the official Clickteam LLC YouTube channel on October 27, 2020.
- Scott registered another company, Fazbear Fanverse, LLC, on October 26, 2021.[11]
- According to Kane Carter, Fanverse characters such as Candy the Cat and Popgoes the Weasel were capable of being added to Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery, as a manager from Illumix, Inc. had mentioned that they were considered part of Scott's official roster.[12] However, this never occurred prior to the game's closure.[13]
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Fazbear Fanverse Explained | Kane Carter | YouTube
- ↑ Reddit - The Fazbear Fanverse Initiative!
- ↑ Kane Carter on Twitter confirming the Fazbear Fanverse projects as official FNaF products of the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise.
- ↑ Reddit - My (Phisnom) update on AFF:OS/FNAF2:OS and the Fazbear Fanverse Initiative.
- ↑ https://imgur.com/a/1hCN82T
- ↑ https://x.com/JeliLiam/status/1513842403530137600
- ↑ https://gamejolt.com/games/Aftonbuilt/708093
- ↑ https://gamejolt.com/games/ripchompers/724466
- ↑ https://x.com/POPGOESdev/status/1376631581562056716
- ↑ https://gamejolt.com/p/the-successes-of-the-fazbear-fanverse-long-post-5wgwddi9
- ↑ https://www.bizapedia.com/tx/fazbear-fanverse-llc.html
- ↑ https://x.com/POPGOESdev/status/1679613730189967362
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/1agk31z/a_very_special_delivery_thank_you_to_you_all/
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